Season’s greetings, Power BI Community! As we wrap up an incredible year, the Microsoft Power BI team is taking a break for December. All planned updates will roll out in January including the next Power BI Desktop release. As we approach another year of innovation, let us take a moment to reflect on some key highlights from 2024.
Leia maisWe are excited to announce the that the enhanced capabilities added recently to the Power BI Snowflake connector are now GA, including the ability to connect to Snowflake without an on-premises data gateway as well as support for Azure Active Directory (AAD) authentication and SSO in DirectQuery mode in the Power BI service.
» Leia maisWe’re thrilled to introduce a new look for getting apps! As of today, getting an app from your organization or from the AppSource marketplace has never been easier!
» Leia maisSince Power BI Report Server launched in June 2017, it’s been adopted by thousands of customers in a variety of industries, giving them a way to use and share Power BI reports on-premises.
» Leia maisLast fall we introduced industry-leading Power BI data protection capabilities in public preview. Today we’re happy to announce these capabilities are generally available (GA), along with new and exciting capabilities we’re announcing in this space! Power BI helps organizations empower everyone to make every decision based on data. It enables a single unified platform to ask smarter business questions and get to actionable insight faster. But democratizing access to insight is only part of the story. We’ve also worked hard to ensure that Power BI is part of an end-to-end security platform that is easy to use, integrated with productivity solutions, and enables remote work. Power BI’s data protection capabilities help people to securely uncover insight, collaborate, and share appropriately no matter where data goes – even outside the organizational network or on unmanaged devices.
» Leia maisIn this week’s release we’ve added dark mode support to the Power BI iOS app. Power BI Mobile users know that we’re always working to improve our apps and looking for ways to provide our users the best, most delightful, and enjoyable experience possible. And enabling dark mode is one of those things that we know you’re going to love!
» Leia maisWe have great updates this release! We’re super excited to announce this month that several features are now generally available: automatic page refresh, the hierarchy slicer, the modern ribbon, and AI insights are now generally available. On top of this, we have several new features and updates that will really improve your reporting: many enhancements to mobile layout authoring, visual updates and more! Check out the full blog to learn more about all the updates and enhancements.
» Leia maisWe are excited to introduce an improved mobile layout authoring experience. With the new capabilities introduced in this release, you can build compelling, interactive reports optimized for mobile devices.
» Leia maisToday, we wanted to announce our roadmap for workspace upgrade so you can plan ahead. We also announce in this post our classic workspace deprecation plans. If you’re a Power BI admin or workspace admin, this is a must read.
» Leia maisWe are excited to announce Direct Query support (Preview) for Power BI dataflows. You can now connect directly to a dataflow without first requiring to import the data into a dataset.
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