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.
Read moreThe 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.
» Read moreWelcome to the November 2024 update. We’re thrilled to introduce Copilot in Power BI Mobile apps, bringing AI to your fingertips for a smarter, faster way to explore data on the go. This month’s update also includes a new Path layer for the Azure Map visual, making geospatial analysis even more powerful by helping you easily map connections between multiple locations. We’re also introducing the OneLake catalog, the latest evolution of the OneLake data hub, offers a unified platform for data engineers, data scientists, analysts, and decision-makers to browse, manage, and govern data seamlessly—all from one intuitive interface.
» Read moreToday, we’re announcing changes to our pricing for Microsoft Power BI Pro and Premium Per User (PPU) licenses—this represents the first pricing update since we launched Power BI nearly 10 years ago.
» Read moreWe are thrilled to announce the release of Copilot in Power BI Mobile apps! This new feature brings the power of AI directly to your fingertips, enhancing your mobile experience and offering a quick and simple way to dive into your data while on the go.
» Read moreHere is the October 2024 release of the gateway!
» Read moreYou can use Power BI Desktop to live edit Direct Lake semantic models, improving your data modeling experience and allowing export to Power BI Project (PBIP) for professional development workflows.
» Read moreWe have a lot of exciting updates to share with you this month. Quick measure suggestions with Copilot to be replaced with Microsoft Fabric Copilot, we have an update with Azure Map – Data Bound Reference Layers, and a preview of New List Slicer. There’s a lot more to discover, so read on to see all we have for you this month.
» Read moreToday, we are announcing that we will be retiring real-time streaming in Power BI.
» Read moreWe recently made a significant update to the Direct Lake documentation. Direct Lake accelerates time to data-driven decisions by unlocking incredible performance directly against OneLake, without the need to manage costly, time-consuming data refreshes for large volumes of data in OneLake.
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