In this roundup, we had a bunch of updates for Power BI and Power BI Desktop. This included custom hierarchies, improvements to report design, and a bunch of updates for connectivity. There was an update for the enterprise gateway which included DirectQuery for Oracle and Teradata along with the ability to use scheduled refresh with the gateway. Jen Underwood talked about data gravity and hybrid BI. Chris Webb gives an intro to Azure Data Catalog. And, Marco Russo talks about how to work with time intelligence functions in Power BI Desktop when you can’t mark a table as date.

Power BI Update: Lots of new authoring features and a new Power BI Desktop update

Power BI Gateway – February Update

TACKLING DATA GRAVITY WITH HYBRID BI SOLUTIONS (@idigdata)

A Quick Look At Azure Data Catalog (@technitrain)

Time Intelligence in Power BI Desktop (@marcorus)