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Announcing Bravo, a new add-in for Power BI
Marco Russo of sqlbi.com is a (the?) expert in Power BI, so any new tool announced by him has to be worth consideration. Bravo is a new Power BI add-in which lets you analyse your data models, format your DAX, automate the creation of date tables and export data model tables to Excel.

Posted by Andy Brown on 30 March 2022

Announcing Bravo, the new add-in for Power BI

Marco Russo of sqlbi.com has announced via YouTube a new add-in for Power BI called Bravo (strapline: "your Power BI buddy"). It seems that Bravo will have 4 main functions (it's currently in beta release):

Function	Notes
Analysing your data model	Work out which tables and columns in your model are taking the most memory.
Formatting DAX	Add indentation and colour-coding to format DAX neatly (this is, I presume, just an extension of the service offered by DAX Studio, Bravo's predecessor from the same stable).
Time automation	Bravo can add a calendar to your model with all sorts of different options for languages and holidays, and also create some standard DAX measures.
Exporting to Excel	You can export the tables in your model to Excel workbooks or CSV files.

Bravo can also export VPAX files, which provide a way of encapsulating the DAX included in a Power BI report in text format.

The feature to analyse a data model looks the most fun - here's an excerpt from Marco's video:

You can't really ask for more detail than this!

You can drill down to see more detail for any table:

Highlighting the columns in an individual table.

Marco says several times in the video that you should back up your existing PBIX files before using Bravo, so I would definitely wait for the final release before trying it. I must admit there wasn't any single feature which made me think that I'd use it, but perhaps one shouldn't judge the software by its first preview.

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