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DevOps, Git, and Agile updates from the team building Azure DevOps

Dashboard Updates Generally Available

We’re excited to announce updates to the new dashboard experience. This new experience lets you: It is now generally available for VSTS customers and coming to TFS in the next major version. Get to your dashboards fast We’ve updated the dashboard picker based on customers’ biggest piece of feedback: make it easy to ...

Power BI and VSTS – Integration made easy

We are excited to announce an easy-to-use solution for integrating Power BI with VSTS Analytics. You don’t have to know how to write OData queries anymore! Our new feature Analytics views makes getting VSTS work tracking data into Power BI simple, and it works for the largest accounts. Similar to a work items query, an Analytics View ...

Stakeholders can now view VSTS Analytics widgets

Why can't Stakeholders view the Analytics widgets? That is a question we often heard. Now we have an answer. They can! Well, now they can. We've updated the VSTS Analytics extension to allow users with Free licenses (Stakeholders license) to view Analytics widgets. This means Stakeholders can view CFD, Lead/Cycle Time, Velocity, Burndown/...

Power BI and VSTS Analytics

We have been working hard to improve the integration between VSTS Analytics and Power BI. We are happy to announce we've released the first step in doing so. The VSTS Power BI Desktop Connector has been updated to provide additional options for historical trend and bug analysis.   Please refer to our guidance on connecting to VSTS with Power...