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Microsoft named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Business Intelligence Platforms, Q2 2025

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We are thrilled to share that Microsoft Power BI has been recognized as a leader in the Forrester Wave™: Business Intelligence Platforms, Q2 2025 again. Microsoft received the highest score of any vendor in the generative AI functionality criteria and the highest score possible in 17 others.

On strategy, Forrester noted in the report “The company’s consistent investment in innovation and its strong partner ecosystem supports broad platform adoption…”. On capabilities, Forrester noted “Power BI fulfills almost any enterprise BI requirement.”

 

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You can get the report, The Forrester Wave™: Augmented Business Intelligence Platforms, Q2 2025, to learn more about Microsoft’s position as a leader in the evaluation.

At the recent Microsoft Fabric Community Conference in Las Vegas, we gathered with more than 6,000 data enthusiasts to unveil several new capabilities in Power BI such as creating Direct Lake semantic models from Power BI desktop, data point annotations in the Power BI add-in for PowerPoint, access to the Azure Analysis Services migration tooling from your workspace, generating a summary from Copilot in Microsoft Fabric with one click from Microsoft Teams messages, enhancements to the new visual card, and many more. Learn about all the latest Power BI announcements.

Thank you to our customers, partners, and Microsoft Valuable Professionals (MVPs) for being part of our journey. With your support, we look forward to pushing the boundaries of business intelligence and making data-driven decisions a cornerstone of modern enterprises.