Welcome to the February 2025 update! Welcome to our latest blog post, where we are thrilled to introduce some game-changing features for Power BI that will significantly enhance your data analysis experience. First up is the improved modeling performance for live editing of semantic models in Direct Lake mode within Power BI Desktop. This results in at least a 50% improvement in each modeling change.
Read moreIn December 2020, we launched the preview of DirectQuery for Power BI Datasets and Analysis Services. Since then, we have worked with many of you to improve on this feature and get it ready for general availability. Today we are announcing that this feature has reached general availability.
» Read moreThe new feature of Deployment pipelines, Change review, completes the missing piece of the Compare action, by allowing you to review the schema of a changed item while its changed lines are highlighted. Check it out!
» Read moreYou can pin your workspaces on top of the list. And unpin them anytime as needed. This functionality enables you to easily navigate to the workspaces that are most relevant to you without searching through the workspace list.
» Read moreEach year, as part of the Gartner Data and Analytics Summit, Gartner invites vendors from the Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms to show how their product can help solve real-world problems and find insights in real-world data. We wanted to share a video that highlights the features we demoed at the Gartner event.
» Read moreBusinesses today are constantly facing new and bigger challenges. Technology is diversifying and evolving faster than ever to address these issues, giving industries across the board a growing number of solutions to sift through.
» Read moreTop 5 tips for improving performance of hierarchies in Power BI Metrics
» Read moreWelcome to March! We have an updated version of the on-premises data gateway, compatible with the March version of PBI Desktop.
» Read moreGeneral availability for the additional Analysis Services settings for workspaces in Power BI.
» Read moreAfter almost 10 years, support for Windows 8.1 has ended on January 10, 2023. In line with this, we will stop support for Power BI Desktop on Windows 8.1 on January 31, 2024. After that, Power BI Desktop will only be supported on Windows 10 and newer. The January 2024 release of Power BI Desktop for Report Server will be the last release to support Windows 8.1, and this version will only receive security updates until January 2025 per the Modern Lifecycle Policy.
» Read moreWant to make multiple selections across all the slicers on your report page then apply them at once? Need a quick way to clear all the slicer’s selections at once, without a bookmark? Now you can!
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