Having the ability to copy a visual (with applied highlighting) to paste into other applications would allow for reports to be written with narrative around each visual.

If pasted into a Microsoft office application it could carry the link back to the relevant report (if permissions allowed) with the filters that feed the visual, essentially a bookmark link.

Would be great if this would include all of the visual, rather than just what is displayed on screen, for example a matrix with all the rows. (Should also apply for printing)
Could wrap the picture in a power bi branded frame to improve adoption of power bi as non users be exposed to the brand.

It would be great if in the O365 Adoption Preview, we could break down some of the data further. I would love to break down activity usage per department on a month-by-month basis, however it seems that with the way the data relationships are pulled in - the API doesn't allow for these breakdowns. I can either choose monthly overall activity usage for the whole organisation, or a company breakdown on only the last month's figures.

The monthly data for previous months seem to consist of fixed, predetermined totals rather than figures allocated to specific users which prevents us from breaking this down. I haven't successfully worked out a way to manage the data relationships to find the monthly drill-through data I'm hoping to obtain.

We want to complete these breakdowns to measure the effectiveness of different sessions we carry out throughout the year on certain groups of users - however this doesn't currently seem possible. If there is any way to pull further data or configure the preview differently? Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated!

It would be of added value if the 'Power BI Service' can be added as a 'Linked Server' in SQL Server.
This would enable SSRS report builders to use it as a datasource and to build SSRS reports on it (= using DAX in OPENQUERY modus in SQL Statements). Additionally, also snapshots of measures can be saved in SQL Server.

Background info: I have already build countless of reports in SSRS using Analysis Services as a source (both using the SSAS connection as well as using OpenQuery). One of the advantage is that you can join the result of multiple linked SSAS servers in one SSRS report (... which is not possible without using 'Linked Servers').

There is currently no clear, built-in system for source control, test, gated approval and release of new reports.

If you have admin rights, you have god mode. Use it with caution.

As a result, IMHE analysts teams are likely to learn the hard way about all the reasons why formal IT teams have developed governance controls for software development and release.

I can imagine this becoming a functionality of Power BI Premium since it's an enterprise type feature.

I can imagine a scenario where the reports authors publish to a project in VSTS . Then VSTS' build environment runs unit tests and continuously deploys to the power bi service just as it would to the Azure App service or a Sql database.

Analysts should benefit from the mistakes of generations of developers and be encouraged to follow best practice.

When users connect to a SAP BW data source they are presented with the SAP BW back-end InfoArea hierarchy. This is highly technical in nature and often not primarily designed to be user facing but instead used to manage layered data architectures, security, etc.

Given this, it would be desirable to be able to present an alternative information architecture; a curated, more user friendly layout of queries that are meaningful for analysis in Power BI.

Without such a friendly, understandable structure – there can be difficulty in a user finding information and hence potential adoption issues for BW data sources. For some customers SAP BW is their central data management platform - hence this can be quite important.

Whilst there are alternatives to enabling an alternative information hierarchy, such as providing a series of reports with pre-canned connections, or links on a page that use APIs to connect to data sources, it'd be nice to have something native within Power BI.

Are there any options here to curate this list into something more friendly and provide an alternative, non-technical information architecture?