Microsoft Power BI Updates Blog

Power BI January 2025 Feature Summary

Welcome to the January 2025 update! Get ready to elevate your data analysis experience! We’re thrilled to announce a series of powerful new features designed to make exploring your data easier and more intuitive than ever. With the addition of the “Explore this data” option in the visual options menu, diving into your datasets is a breeze. Plus, our Treemap visual now boasts three innovative tiling methods for enhanced visualization.

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Esri Plus Subscription for ArcGIS Maps for Power BI is now available

Today, I’m happy to announce that Esri is taking ArcGIS Maps for Power BI to the next level by introducing Plus, a subscription service available for purchase from Esri that allows everyday business users in Power BI to do more with their spatial data. What is Plus? In a word: More. More basemaps, more data points, more demographics, more reference layers. It’s a step in our journey to make GIS easy to understand and consume for regular business users. Plus is inspired by many of the feature requests you have made since we introduce ArcGIS Maps for Power BI.

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Power BI Desktop November Feature Summary

This month conditional formatting gets a major update with the ability to control the color based on rules. If you have a slow data source, we now have report options that help limit the number of queries that are sent to the source. Finally, we are also adding several formatting features, including cell alignment for table and matrix, and precise control over the order of overlapping charts on your report.

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Webinar 10/26/2017: What is new and exciting in PowerApps, Flow and Power BI with Chuck and Reid Havens

Chuck and Reid will cover an overview of what has been released in PowerApps, Flow and Power BI in the last couple of month. We will be covering the new collaboration features in the cloud-based business analytics service the new authoring and modeling features of Power BI Desktop, extend your reach to mobile applications, new Power BI resources and finally what is new for developers leveraging these platforms.

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