The May 2025 Power BI update introduces a range of exciting advancements to Power BI, including a standalone Copilot feature allowing users to “Ask Anything!” in preview, enhanced language understanding for data-related questions, and an important announcement regarding the deprecation of the 32-bit Power BI Desktop build. Packed with valuable updates and insights, this month’s updates promise plenty of details to explore.
» Read moreWe are thrilled to announce that Power BI report buttons can now run Fabric User data functions for custom, automated action, including data write-back. This marks a major evolution in Power BI reports to support all kinds of translytical task flows, such as updating records, dynamic notifications, adding annotations, or even creating powerful workflows that trigger actions in other systems. Read more to see how translytical task flows can help streamline decision-making and end-user actions through automation.
» Read moreWe’re excited to announce the public preview of a new chat with your data experience in Power BI. This new standalone, full-screen Copilot experience, easily accessible from the left navigation of Fabric, can help you find and ask questions about any data you have access to.
» Read moreIf you’ve worked with calculation groups, you know how powerful they are for simplifying measure logic and enhancing report functionality. It doesn’t stop there though; selection expressions offer even more fine-tuned control.
» Read moreThis update comes with a marked improvement when generating DAX queries and conversationally editing them. This includes overall correctness of the DAX queries and Copilot shows a deeper understanding of how to utilize DAX.
» Read moreThe unification of Power BI datamarts with Fabric data warehouses offers a significant evolution in Microsoft’s analytics capabilities. By addressing user feedback and enhancing features such as scalability, security, and AI integration, Fabric data warehouses offer a robust solution for modern data needs. We encourage users to migrate their existing datamarts to Fabric data warehouses to take full advantage of these improvements and ensure continuity in their data operations.
» Read moreThere are a lot of exciting features this month, including mobile optimized report layouts, the best way to view data in the general availability of Power BI mobile apps, editing your semantic models with TMDL (Preview), and improved layouts for live editing semantic models. These are just a few of the updates this month.
» Read moreThe latest update to DAX query view introduces a major improvement to IntelliSense, eliminating auto-preselection to enhance efficiency and accuracy.
» Read moreMicrosoft Fabric’s OneLake data can be visualized and analyzed in Power BI without moving any data using the new Direct Lake storage mode. . Power BI Desktop users can now create these just like any Power BI solution, right in Power BI Desktop.
» Read moreWe are thrilled to share that Microsoft Power BI has been recognized as a leader in the Forrester Wave™: Business Intelligence Platforms, Q2 2025 again. Microsoft received the highest score of any vendor in generative AI functionality and excelled in several other categories.
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