External Tools

• DAX Studio — Free tool for optimizing and tuning the performance of the DAX language. With other features such as analyzing query plans, vertipaq analyzer, and more. (Livestream)

• Tabular Editor — Described as the ultimate productivity tool for Analysis Services and Power BI Tabular modelling. Dozens upon dozens of tools for speeding up model development and enhancing the model design. (Livestream)

• Measure Killer — Identifies unused columns and measures between a semantic model and related datasets. Helping to remove unused items and optimize model size and performance. (Livestream)

• Bravo for Power BI — Free open-source tool that helps you create a Power BI model with a simple user interface. Including a model analyzer, DAX formatter, calendar creator, data exporter, and more. (Livestream)

• PBI Explorer — Free tool that exposes page and visual properties of Power BI report files. Plus the ability to diff compare versions of reports, run a best practices report analyzer, and more! (Livestream)

• PowerBI.tips Business Ops — Free external tool manager for installing any/all external tools, links, themes, and related development items.

SaaS Products & Tools

• Power BI Sentinel — Governance, Auditing and Disaster Recovery for Power BI and Fabric. Bridges the gap between compliance and self service reporting. (Livestream)

• DAX Optimizer — Find DAX-related issues and recommendations to boost performance of your Tabular/Power BI models.

• PowerOps — Offers a single platform to Analyze, Compare, and Version Control of Power BI Reports and Semantic Models. (Livestream)

• PowerBI.Tips Theme Generator — Complete theme builder and wireframe (PBIP) creator. U/I configuration of every single configurable attribute in a theme file for all report, page, visual, and object settings. Auto-updated to always be in sync with the Microsoft theme configuration repository. (Livestream)

Custom Visuals

• Inforiver — Suite of enterprise-grade visualizations specializing in advanced matrix, charts, writeback, collaboration, commenting, and more. (Livestream)

• Deneb — Bespoke (custom) visual builder. Built off the open-source vega visual language. (Video 1, Video 2, Video 3)

Websites / Blogs

• SQLBI — The definitive blog for anything and everything DAX, period.

• DAX.do — Sandbox environment and website from SQLBI to explore and learn the DAX language against a semantic model

• DAX.guide — Dictionary of all DAX functions, statements, and language syntax, from SQLBI.

• Data Goblins — Few blogs are worthy of a dedicated mention for EVERY Power BI developer to subscribe to…but this is one of them. Kurt writes the best articles of anyone in the industry today. (Livestream)