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 moreWe’re excited to announce the release of Power BI APIs .NET SDK v3. The new version is easier to use, have additional capabilities including the new credentials classes and easier way to encrypt credentials.
» Read moreLearn the differences and advantages of measures and numeric calculated columns.
» Read moreUse Datset owner’s UPN for Refresh-based Reports
» Read moreWe’re excited to announce the new Power BI tab for Microsoft Teams with support for reports in the new workspace experiences, Power BI apps, and paginated reports. Add the tab to your channels and chats so it’s easy to find and track the data you and your teams need to achieve your objectives. your job done.
» Read moreWe are pleased to announce that, in addition to incremental refresh reaching general availability, it is also now available with Power BI Pro licensing.
» Read moreWe are super excited for our update this month! We are releasing two of our top community requests: incremental refresh for Pro and hierarchical slicer. Additionally, we’ve added some improvements to the new ribbon and a couple new DAX functions. Since our last release, there have been several new custom visuals released on AppSource, so be sure to try them out! If you want to learn about all the updates and enhancements this month, check out the full blog.
» Read moreWe are excited to announce the public preview of the enhanced Power BI Snowflake connector. If you are a Snowflake customer, you’ll be delighted to know that you no longer need an on-premises data gateway to access your data warehouse. Another improvement is the support for AAD authentication including Single-Sign-On (SSO).
» Read moreIt’s the start of a new Super User season. In addition to welcoming new Super Users, we’re also starting a brand-new tier system.
» Read moreIn the coming weeks, we will be allowing customers with workspaces or apps backed by premium capacity to add users outside of the organization to e-mail subscriptions as well. This new functionality can be used whether or not you wish to add the user formally to your tenant as a B2B user, giving you the ultimate control around how you wish to share and distribute content externally.
» Read moreToday we’re announcing for the 13th consecutive year, Microsoft has been positioned as a leader in the Gartner 2020 Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms. For the second year, Microsoft is positioned furthest to the right for completeness of vision and furthest up in the ability to execute within the leaders’ quadrant.
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