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PowerPivot in Designer

PowerPivot will be integrate in desginer in some time? or will need always need excel for manage powerpivot?

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Hi - yes, KPIs and the icons for them, as well as hierarchies, will be coming in a future update. Thanks! Will

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Yes.  There is a tabular instance (local mode) that is a child process of Power BI Desktop.  You have a Tabular model with Desktop.

Adam W. Saxton | Microsoft Employee | Business Intelligence
@GuyInACube | youtube.com/guyinacube

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bkoo
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Great! Thanks for your answer. I will try it on.
bkoo
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But what about the great compression capabilities of PowerPivot? Are they available in Designer?

Yes.  There is a tabular instance (local mode) that is a child process of Power BI Desktop.  You have a Tabular model with Desktop.

Adam W. Saxton | Microsoft Employee | Business Intelligence
@GuyInACube | youtube.com/guyinacube
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And associated visualization options e.g. indicators in a table?

Hi - yes, KPIs and the icons for them, as well as hierarchies, will be coming in a future update. Thanks! Will
AlongTheseLines
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KPIs?
GuyInACube
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There are already modeling capabilities within Designer.  Calculated Columns and DAX Measures, Relationships.  Categorization.  Check out the May update for Power BI Designer along with the designer experience blog.

 

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powerbi/archive/2015/04/22/the-power-bi-designer-experience.aspx

 

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/powerbi/archive/2015/05/19/power-bi-designer-may-update.aspx

 

Is there something specific you are looking for that you don't see?  You can also look to see about feature requests and vote them up at http://support.powerbi.com.

 

Adam W. Saxton | Microsoft Employee | Business Intelligence
@GuyInACube | youtube.com/guyinacube

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