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Power BI November 2024 Feature Summary

Welcome to the November 2024 update. We’re thrilled to introduce Copilot in Power BI Mobile apps, bringing AI to your fingertips for a smarter, faster way to explore data on the go. This month’s update also includes a new Path layer for the Azure Map visual, making geospatial analysis even more powerful by helping you easily map connections between multiple locations. We’re also introducing the OneLake catalog, the latest evolution of the OneLake data hub, offers a unified platform for data engineers, data scientists, analysts, and decision-makers to browse, manage, and govern data seamlessly—all from one intuitive interface.

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Announcing the Power BI solution template for System Center Configuration Manager

Today we are excited to announce the release of the Power BI solution template for System Center Configuration Manager. The Power BI dashboard provides detailed information of your System Center Configuration Manager including client and server health, malware protection, software updates, and software inventory across your organization. You can compare key System Center Configuration Manager metrics to personalized targets and see how they trend over time. You can also identify trouble spots and get the information you need to understand what needs to be done.

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Power BI Dashboard in a Day and Dashboard in an Hour training near you

Looking for more training on Power BI? Dashboard in a Day and Dashboard in an Hour are training plans that we update monthly with the latest features, and make available for Usergroups, MVPs, and of course our Power BI partners to offer their customers. Over the next two months you can find this content at cities across the U.S., and many of these events are even free! Check out a training session near you.

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August Power BI Desktop Update: Updated Drill experience

In the August update of Power BI Desktop, we released the general availability of inline hierarchies. We took inline hierarchies out of preview, and replaced this previous drill experience with the inline hierarchy experience. Since that update, we have heard feedback from you that while this new experience is very useful, you still have a need for the older experience, especially when using drill with unrelated categories in the hierarchy. Today we are releasing an update to the August Power BI Desktop release that gives you the ability to use both of these experience in one chart!

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Webinars for Sept 12-16: Getting started with custom visuals, Increasing performance with Common Data Model, and the making of the Real Sociedad report

Next week brings us three webinars for your viewing pleasure! These great presentations cover topics like how to get started with custom visuals by one of our data MVPs, how to use Power Apps (and the Common Data Model) to make it easier to collect business data, and a case study and review of best practices with Real Sociedad reports by one of our top designers.

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Explore your ServiceNow® Data with Power BI

ServiceNow provides service management for every department in your enterprise, including IT, human resources, facilities, field services, and more. We are excited to announce the availability of a Power BI content pack for ServiceNow that’s focused on incident management. The content pack gives you instant access to multiple reports and insights on your active, recently resolved, and recently closed incidents.

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