Season’s greetings, Power BI Community! As we wrap up an incredible year, the Microsoft Power BI team is taking a break for December. All planned updates will roll out in January including the next Power BI Desktop release. As we approach another year of innovation, let us take a moment to reflect on some key highlights from 2024.
Read moreIntroducing On-object! The new way to build and format your visuals. We’ve heard time and again from our user research studies PBI desktop is hard to use. We’ve also seen countless new users struggle to navigate our UI to perform simple actions such as completely missing the fields pane all the way on the right side of the screen, unable to add data to the correct field wells, fishing around the format pane to rename, change colors, or format text styles of their visual. These same users instinctively right-click on areas of the visual expecting a menu to help. Aligning to our new “Office-like” strategy we bring you, on object. A new way to build and format visuals directly on the visual.
» Read moreAnnouncing support in cross region support when working of Power BI and Power Apps Solutions
» Read moreThis Scanner API release extends coverage for artifact metadata, RDL data source properties, dataset sub-artifact metadata, and datamart metadata.
» Read moreFollowing our last announcement in August of launching the Public Preview of Multiple Audiences for Power BI org apps, we are excited to share that this feature is now generally available! With this, the multiple audience feature will now be supported by Power BI Mobile.
» Read moreWe are happy to announce the general availability of Power BI integration with PowerPoint. This integration makes presentations more engaging and informative by allowing users to create rich, interactive visualizations that can be embedded in PowerPoint slides. The is now available also in national clouds. The integration has also added new features such as the ability to use a single visual, leverage Smart Insights to generate text that summarizes the data in the slide, and a “What’s new” banner to keep users informed of new capabilities.
» Read moreWe are excited to announce significant query processing improvements in the Power BI engine around query parallelization in DirectQuery mode, which can help to accelerate query response times, specifically for DAX and MDX expressions that generate multiple storage engine (SE) queries.
» Read moreWelcome to the February 2023 updates on Power BI Datamarts. This month, we’ve added a variety of new features based on your votes on ideas.powerbi.com. There’s more to explore, as well as a sneak peek of what’s coming soon, so please read on!
» Read moreThe Power BI app for Microsoft Teams, Outlook, and Office is getting updated multi-tasking experiences to help users complete their tasks faster. Read the blog for all the details.
» Read moreStarting mid-March of 2023 Streaming Dataflows will be retired. You can now migrate to Azure Stream Analytics (ASA) No-code editor today!
» Read moreIt’s our first on-premises data gateway release of 2023! Note that beginning on March 15, 2023, any Power BI dataflow using an on-premises data gateway version older than April 2021 might fail. To ensure your refreshes continue to work correctly, be sure to update your gateway to the latest version.
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