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.
Read moreFor the third straight week, we’re delivering on the item I’ve heard more end-user feedback around than any other we’d promised to deliver in the October blogpost. At long last, you and your users will be able to export their Power BI reports to either PDF or PowerPoint and have their selections on the screen …
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» Read moreAs part of our strategy to converge enterprise and self-service BI on Power BI as a single platform, we announced the public preview of incremental refresh last summer. While there is still more work to be done to get it to general availability, we have seen strong uptake of incremental refresh. Incremental refresh is a …
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» Read moreWe’re very grateful to our customers, our community members, and our partners for making Power BI what it is today. Thank you. The Power BI Team Get the 2019 Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms report* to learn more. *This graphic …
» Read moreJanuary was a feature-filled month for the Power BI team! We kicked off this new year by announcing some of the highly requested features by our community and couldn’t have wished for a better start. We hope you’re just as excited for what’s to come for the rest of 2019! To recap, here’s a list of all the features we shipped last month.
» Read moreThe February update for Power BI Desktop has a preview of our new Key Influencers visual, which lets you perform key drivers analysis over your data with just a few clicks. We also have some major updates for Q&A with the addition of auto-generated questions and the ability to ask Insights related questions. Our partners and community have added a lot of new connectors and custom visuals this month as well. Lastly, to round things out, we have some formatting and visual improvements this month.
» Read more(Please note: Date change due to inclement weather in Redmond) Take a look at the new version of Power BI Premium Capacity Metrics app. In addition to comprehensive refresh , query and eviction metrics for past 7 days, the latest version now offers system metrics by workloads, and total active dataset size in memory metrics. …
Continue reading “Webinar 3/7: Tour of the new Power BI Premium Capacity metrics app by Swati Gupta”
» Read moreAs the volume and complexity of the data continue to grow exponentially, organizations need an analytics solution that is fast, secure, and easy-to-use, so they can extract critical insights from their data and take timely actions to maintain a competitive advantage. Power BI and Azure provide customers an unmatched combination for petabyte-scale analytics – we …
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» Read moreWe’re thrilled to announce that you can authenticate to Power BI with service principal (also known as app-only authentication), available by end of week in Public Preview. Service principal is a local representation of your AAD application for use in a specific tenant and will allow you to access resources or perform operations using Power …
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» Read moreBulk operations enable Power BI admins to perform repetitive tasks efficiently. Perhaps you need to add a new hire as a workspace administrator to all workspaces of the Finance department. Or maybe you need to restore multiple deleted workspaces or recover a few orphaned ones. It is also imaginable that you needed to enforce a …
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» Read moreFor the second week in a row, we’re continuing to build on the capabilities we’d promised to deliver in the October blog post around managed distribution of content. These two new features are both rolling out now across the globe, and you should see them available in your tenant by Feb 10th. Export to PDF The first …
Continue reading “Export to PDF and On-Demand E-Mail Subscriptions Now Available”
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