Just in time for Christmas the Microsoft product teams responsible for Power BI have a slew of amazing updates.  The list of updates can be found here but for my notes specifically on Power Query updates continue reading!

Power Query

Power Query now has 3 new data sources that you can connect to.  Connectors have now been added for Sybase IQ, Exchange and Dynamics CRM Online.  Sybase IQ is the column-store database technology produced by SAP and is used for many organizations for BI solutions.  This is a great add for Microsoft to pull in competitors data sources. The addition of Exchange was a bit of a surprise to me at first but once I saw my first demo connecting to an Exchange email account I was pretty impressed what you could do with it.  Expect a blog post on this one soon.  Last, Dynamic CRM Online is likely to…