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Power BI February 2025 Feature Summary

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.

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Announcing live connect for Power BI report integration with OneDrive and SharePoint (Preview)

Last May, we announced the integration between Power BI and OneDrive and SharePoint (ODSP) that allows you to view Power BI reports directly in a OneDrive or SharePoint document library. Previously, this capability was limited only to reports with data in import mode. We’re excited to announce that you can now view Power BI reports in ODSP with data live connected to a semantic model in the service!

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Supporting continuous Slide Shows in Power BI Storytelling add-in

PowerPoint lets you play a presentation continuously. This is handy when you want to show information on public screens without anyone having to control it. In this update, we added a new configuration to Storytelling add-in that ensures that you get the latest data from Power BI when running in a continuous slide show. When enabled, the add-in automatically pulls data from Power BI, without anyone having to do anything, ensuring that the presentation always has the most recent data.

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