Microsoft Power BI Updates Blog

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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Copilot in Microsoft Fabric is now generally available in the Power BI experience

One of the biggest opportunities we’re seeing is in accelerating the path to a data-rich culture by enhancing the productivity of your data teams and making analytics more accessible to every user. That’s why we’ve invested heavily in bringing to life Copilot in Fabric—an AI experience embedded directly into Microsoft Fabric that can help every user unlock the full potential of their data.

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Announcing Microsoft Fabric Community Conference Europe

In March we hosted over 4,200 data professionals in Las Vegas for the first-ever Microsoft Fabric Community Conference. When we set out to host this event, we knew there was a hunger in the community, but we had no idea the level of interest, and need, for connection amongst our Fabric users. It was an amazing experience to connect with our community and see the opportunities that Fabric unlocks for your businesses.

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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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