Power BI Designer March Update includes Google Analytics Connector

The Power BI team have released details of their March update to the standalone Power BI designer.

The first thing I noticed is just how much faster the tool operates. The blog post mentioned performance enhancements but I really, really noticed them.

One particular enhancement that I wanted to call out was the additional of a connector for Google Analytics. I’ve been trying that this morning and have found it really easy to use. All the standard categories appear as available sets of data: