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Power BI Premium Gen 2 is the latest improvement released by Microsoft Power BI which brings significant improvement to its previous version. Gen2 introduces improved set of features and architecture updates including enhanced performance, greater scale, improved metrics, and faster processing including faster query for key reports.
Premium Gen2 now offers license flexibility per user or capacity. This enables administrators to automatically add compute capacity to avoid slowdowns under heavy use, using Autoscale and provide consistent and reliable cost management with utilisation metrics.
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Game Changing Features
Power BI Premium Gen2 offers these improved experiences:
Greater Scale
- No limits on refresh concurrency
- Fewer memory restrictions
- Complete separation between report interaction and scheduled refreshes
Improved Streamline Metrics
- Clear capacity utilisation data
- Improved metrics, utilisation analysis, budget planning, chargebacks, and built-in reporting
Autoscale
- Optional feature that allows automatically adding one v-core at a 24-hour period
- Prevents slowdowns caused by overload
Reduced Management Overhead
- Proactive and configurable admin notifications on capacity utilisation and load increase
- Ability to set reactive limit to expenditure cost of autoscaling
Other Enhancements and Features in GEN 2
Workspaces
Each Power BI user has a personal workspace known as My Workspace. Additional workspaces known as workspaces can be created to enable collaboration.
Capacity Nodes
The amount of memory available on each node size is set to the limit of memory footprint of a single artifact, and not to the cumulative consumption of memory.
Refresh
There is no limit on the number of refreshes running per v-core. Schedule and run as many refreshes as required at any given time, and the Power BI service will run those refreshes at the time schedule.
Monitoring
Premium Gen2 intends to simplify monitoring and management. It aims to assure that everything is running properly and only alerts users if they must act, such as requiring attention to correct over usage or if more resources are required.
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Rad Anandakumar is a leading expert in data analytics, machine learning, and AI, with a career spanning more than 2 decades. As an AI + Data Technology Strategist, he has led digital transformations and AI-driven business solutions, working with cutting-edge technologies like Generative AI, IoT, and predictive analytics.
