Microsoft Power BI Updates Blog

Power BI January 2025 Feature Summary

Welcome to the January 2025 update! Get ready to elevate your data analysis experience! We’re thrilled to announce a series of powerful new features designed to make exploring your data easier and more intuitive than ever. With the addition of the “Explore this data” option in the visual options menu, diving into your datasets is a breeze. Plus, our Treemap visual now boasts three innovative tiling methods for enhanced visualization.

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Power BI 2024 Holiday recap

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.

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Introducing org apps, now in preview – multiple apps per workspace, custom colors, and more!

We’re excited to tell you more about org apps, now in public preview. Fabric org apps are Power BI workspace apps rebuilt for Fabric as a new item type. With org apps as items, you can create multiple org apps per workspace. And you work with org apps the way you would any other item type – from creating a new org app, saving changes, managing access, to sharing the org app – all the things you find familiar and easy about managing other items, such as reports, will be familiar with org apps as items.

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Announcing Metrics Sets are widely available in Preview

The blog post introduces the Metric Sets Public Preview, a feature designed to enhance metric management across organizations by providing a centralized, consistent, and trusted metric system. Key benefits include centralized metric management, enabling organizations to store and organize metrics in one place to avoid duplication and data silos; enhanced discoverability with intuitive search features; seamless integration with tools like Power BI and notebooks; rich visualization options for easier data consumption; and built-in security and governance for reliable metrics. Looking ahead, further enhancements are planned, including advanced integrations and a more robust desktop experience. Organizations are encouraged to try the feature to improve data quality and boost decision-making.

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