Microsoft Power BI Updates Blog

Power BI September 2024 Feature Summary

Welcome to the September 2024 update! We have a lot of exciting updates to share with you this month as well as a new feature you’ve been waiting for. You can now choose from a variety of themes Power BI Desktop, including the most requested Dark Mode! You can personalize your data visualization experience to match your preferences and working environment. In addition, we’ve now consolidated similar options in the menu bar and streamlined the button text for better readability and responsive screen sizing.

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What it takes to become a business intelligence hero

With Power BI Pro, you’ve learned how to shape data into a unified view in less time and with less effort, so you can deliver valuable business insight to decision makers when they need it. You don’t have to stop there. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella talks about using data to change business culture so that, he says, “every organization, every team and every individual is empowered to do great things because of the data at their fingertips.” Now might be the right time for you to use the enhanced functionality in Power BI Pro to become a business intelligence hero—and help build a data culture in your organization.

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Congratulations to this month’s Featured Data Stories Gallery submissions

Last month we put out the call for custom visual submissions — along with other topics that interest you — to the Data Stories Gallery, and we got some fantastic entries! Congratulations to the grand winner and seven runners-up. The inspiration topic for December is “retail”: show us a great data story with any kind of retail data and win a Power BI t-shirt and badge of recognition!

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