Power BI Designer saves a local PBIX file, which can be a file to export data and data model – in other words, it’s a format that contains a complete semantic model. All the applications that today e...
Export to Excel/CSV is already the most important feature in so many products... this is a completely natural extension. Instead of exporting dumb data, export awesomeness. I track my billing hours in Harvest. I waste time exporting to CSV, importing into power pivot, adding a date table, relating it, then building charts to show billable hours by week. If harvest could instead just... give me that? Value add for them, value add for the Power BI platform, win for everybody. The more you can bring developers and 3rd party products/functionality into the ecosystem, the faster the platform gains critical mass. I should note that I won't cry if the programmability extends to plugin creation in Designer. Marco can offer his DaxFormatter as a plugin. I can tell you that as a consultant... it's non-fun to look at the crazy un-formatted dax my clients write... :)
