Microsoft has just announced an update to Power BI Designer that now supports scheduled or ad hoc data refreshes through the Power BI service.
The following data sources are supported for refresh:
- Azure SQL Database.
- Azure Blob Storage.
- Azure Table Storage.
- Azure HDInsight.
- Azure Marketplace.
- Dynamics CRM Online.
- Facebook.
- Google Analytics.
- Salesforce Objects/Reports.
- OData feeds.
- Web (HTML & Web APIs).