In modern business intelligence projects, understanding the flow of data from the data source to its destination can be a challenge. The challenge is even bigger if you’ve built advanced analytical projects spanning multiple data sources, artifacts, and dependencies. Questions like “What happens if I change this data?” or “Why isn’t this report up to date?” can be hard to answer. They may require a team of experts or deep investigation to understand. To answer these and other questions we created the lineage view.
Earlier this year we released the dataflows diagram view, and now with the lineage view release, we’re providing you with a full-blown solution for your workspace. The new lineage view covers all Power BI workspace artifacts, including dataflows, datasets, reports, and dashboards and their connections to the external data sources. Moreover, we’ve included some new features, such as gateway information, highlighting the lineage path of a specific artifact, viewing lineage in full screen, and more. All this, with keeping the user experience as a top priority – and so we hope you’ll enjoy it.
Sharon Matthews, Reporting and Analytics Manager at Veolia, who participated in the lineage view private preview program, recently shared with us that “Lineage view has helped us maintain multiple workspaces whilst ensuring that we can clearly see how one change in one dataset can impact multiple reports and dashboards. We can easily identify reports that haven’t refreshed and kick off refreshes from a friendly interface and also remove unused datasets easily. As a central team managing power bi reports this has proven to save us a lot of time”