This month’s update marks a notable evolution for Power BI. With richer connections to Microsoft 365, smarter Copilot features, and the integration of reporting through PBIRS and SQL Server 2025, users are set to benefit from more seamless workflows and intelligent insights. Whether you’re eager for enhanced collaboration or advanced AI, this month’s innovations are designed to open new possibilities for every Power BI enthusiast.
Read moreWe have a massive Power BI Desktop update this month. Composite models, which allow you combine direct query and import sources together in one model, is now generally available. Two of the top feature requests on UserVoice, expand/collapse on the matrix and copy and pasting visuals between Desktop files, are also shipping this month. We are previewing a completely revamped filter pane that is highly customizable and have a ton of other product updates as well!
» Read moreWe’re excited to announce the availability of two new query histogram distribution charts. One is bucketed by query durations(ms) and the other is by query wait times(ms). Query histogram…
» Read moreWe’re excited to introduce Paginated report and Dataflow metrics in Power BI Premium Capacity Metrics app (version 1.8)! The app supports monitoring the health of your premium capacities, providing…
» Read moreWe are happy to announce on the availability of Power BI Premium Paginated Reports in Power BI Mobile apps.
» Read moreIn July, we first announced our plans to support SQL Server Reporting Services reports in Power BI, and later demonstrated this capability at the Microsoft Business Applications Summit. Today, we are thrilled to announce the initial public preview of this functionality is now available in Power BI Premium, allowing customers to view and interact with their pixel-perfect paginated reports right alongside their existing Power BI interactive reports in the Power BI portal.
» Read moreIn the modern BI world, data preparation is considered the most difficult, expensive, and time-consuming task, estimated by experts as taking 60%-80% of the time and cost of a typical analytics project. Some of the challenges in those projects include fragmented and incomplete data, complex system integration, business data without any structural consistency, and of course, a high skillset barrier. Specialized expertise, typically reserved for data warehousing professionals, is often required. Such advanced skills are rare and expensive.
» Read moreAs organizations embrace a data culture to drive business decisions, they need an enterprise business intelligence platform that can meet their sophisticated needs – from self-service BI to full enterprise governance, from paginated reports to full interactive data exploration, and from small data sets to petabytes of data.
» Read moreWe are now in the last quarter of the year and, as always, the Power BI team is saving the best for last. We rolled out some of our biggest features in the months of September and October.
» Read moreDiscuss the latest updates to Power BI embedding features offered through Azure and the Power BI Service
» Read moreSQL PASS Summit 2018 is here! The Power BI team is going to have another strong presence at the Seattle Convention Center next week, and we can hardly wait to see you there.
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