Hi Ky, I moved your post to a public forum so that more people will be able to view and respond. Although the data designer feature is in beta, it’s available for all customers now.

@kytpowell ,

Currently, only the dataspaces (dataset) created in the data designer can be promoted to universal and can be used in Report Builder. We are working on the capability to auto move the reports created in Data Designer to Report Builder so that you can seamlessly add the report to a dashboard. Either I or @sai_ram  will update this thread once we release such a feature. 

You did mention that you were expecting an overhaul of visualizations and exploration => Is there any particular enhancement you were hoping for?

Thanks for the response Rakesh. As far as the exploration and visualization in reporting, there are restrictions when grouping by or pivoting data. We often hit a roadblock when we are trying to pivot or group by multiple layers of data and we are only able to pivot or enable grouping against one field. The reporting tool just has restrictions when you want to organize your data by multiple layers (fields).

We do now have the ability to publish reports from Data Designer to reporting. 

Also, we are working on overhauling the Reporting UI which would make it appear similar to that of Data Designer.