A new update to Microsoft's Power Query add-on helps users explore data from ODBC sources and better tailor the business intelligence tool to their environment.

Users can link to their desired data sources using the Power BI Desktop application, which is generally used to configure dashboards, fine-tune data visualizations and author full reports.

Now, the Power BI team has rolled out a set of new PowerShell cmdlets for on-premises data gateways and data sources in preview.

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Microsoft has introduced five new capacity settings for Power BI Premium. This will enable administrators to avoid running into capacity-related issues and achieve better performing capacities.

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Microsoft today announced that Power BI, the company's cloud-hosted self-service business intelligence service, will hit general availability on July 24.