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Microsoft is excited to announce the Data Hub!

The Data hub is the evolution of the Datasets Hub that was announced in December-2020.
In the Data hub, in addition to Power BI datasets, users can now find the newly released Datamarts.

The Data hub is a central location for data owners, report creators, and report consumers to manage, discover and reuse data items across all workspaces.

• Data item owners can see usage metrics, refresh status, related reports, lineage, and impact analysis to help monitor and manage their data items.
• Report creators can use the hub to find suitable items to build their reports on and use links to easily create the reports.
• Report consumers can use the hub to find reports based on trustworthy data items.

A major challenge for customers is that users often build similar data repeatedly, resulting in resource overload, governance complexity, and difficulty in identifying sources of truth.

The Data hub addresses these challenges by making it easier for users to discover existing, quality data and reuse it to answer business questions and gain insights.

Once user discovers a data item that seems to have the right data, a click on the item opens the data details page. On the details page you can see the following:

1. Metadata about the data item, including description, endorsement, and sensitivity label.
2. Actions such as share, refresh, create new, and more.
3. Related reports, which are reports that were built on top of the dataset/datamart.

Data discovery best practices – before creating new reports, users should look at the existing related reports. If there are no such reports that are suitable, there are multiple ways to create a new report:

1. Create report from template, if a template has been defined (a template is defined by adding the suffix “(template)” to a report built on top of the dataset/datamart).
2. Create report from scratch to open a blank canvas and start creating your report.
3. Auto-create a report. Note: This is currently supported only for single-table datasets.
4. Create a formatted table.

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You can read more about the Data hub here.

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