April 3 Power BI Update available --> Download and Test Drive

You can get this new update from Windows Store as well. If you cannot access, you can get it from a link (the Desktop Download button) on this site.


April update has all of the following:

Reporting
Q&A Explorer (preview)
Buttons to trigger actions
Combo chart line styles
Improved default sort for visuals
Numeric Slicer now generally available

Analytics
Update your linguistic schema
New DAX function: COMBINEVALUES()

Custom visuals
Organizational visuals now generally available
Overview by CloudScope
Icon Map by Altius
Hexbin Scatterplot

Data connectivity
Adobe Analytics connector now generally available
SAP HANA connector improvement: Port selection
Dynamics 365 Business Central connector

Watch this video for the updated features:

Update your SQL Server Data Tools to the latest

SQL Server Data Tools is a modern development tool which can be used to build:

SQL Server Relational DBS
Azure SQL Databases
Integration Service Packages
Analysis Services Models
Reporting Services Reports

You can, not only build you can also deploy SQL Server content with same ease as you do in Visual Studio. If you already have Visual Studio 2015 Community installing SSDT will add full set of SQL Server tools into existing Visual Studio. If there is no Visual Studio, a shell Visual Studio programe will be installed which will have only SQL Server related BI templates.

You will have a stirling exprience if you all ready have Visual Studio 2015 Community which happens to be free as well. This is highly recommended.

This post is related to the July 7, 2016 update. The new version is 14.0.60812.0.

Here are the older versions on my computer:

SSDT_01

If you already have Visual Studio 2015 Community, you will have received a notification which will show the updates available for you as shown:

SSDT_00

Just hit the Update button and you will be taken to the download URL. If you do not have Visual Studio 2015 Community and you want a copy of SSDT just follow this link.(https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/mt204009.aspx)

Details of SSDT installation are at this link including links for the .ISO Images and other details:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/mt186501

The ISO images are available in several languages as well.
Portuguese (Brazil)
https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=824661&clcid=0x416
Chinese (PRC)
https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=824661&clcid=0x804
German
https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=824661&clcid=0x407
English (United States)
https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=824661&clcid=0x409
Spanish
https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=824661&clcid=0x40a
French
https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=824661&clcid=0x40c
Italian
https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=824661&clcid=0x410
Japanese
https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=824661&clcid=0x411
Korean
https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=824661&clcid=0x412
Russian
https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=824661&clcid=0x419
Chinese (Taiwan)
https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=824661&clcid=0x404

Supported Operating Systems are:

Windows 10 (x86 and x64)
Windows 8, 8.1 (x86 and x64)
Windows 7 SP1 (x86 and x64)
Windows Server 2012 (x64), R2 (x64)
Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 (x64)

SQL Azure Databases are the core of many Azure Offerings

 Including this one announced in December 2015.

As announced today Targit's BI and Analytics platform announced its first offering of Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines.

This allows access to advanced data discovery; simple self-service BI analytics; comprehensive reporting with cutting edge dashboards in Azure Cloud. It works using the Bring Your Own License Model similar to its on-premises infrastructure (pay-as-you-go).

These are the declared benefits as seen on the Targit site:

• No upfront investment for hardware and software licensing: TARGIT on Azure users are able to scale up or out over time without the typical massive reinvestment in additional hardware and software.
• Full support for Azure database technologies: TARGIT Decision Suite 2015 comes with official support for Azure SQL Database, the dedicated relational database service hosted on Azure.  
• Fast ROI realization: TARGIT on Azure has a rapid timeline for deployment, and is the most cost-effective way to get started with BI. Users don’t need to have IT resources dedicated to managing an on-premises solution to glean problem-solving BI insights

Targit Decision Suite and data in SQL Server is expected to make all of the above possible

If have an Azure account you can create a new VM for Targit quite easily:
Read more here or go to Azure Portal

Their BI implementation overview from an image on their ebook which can be downloaded from their site.