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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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Explore and Analyze your Infer data with Power BI

Infer Inc. is a leading provider of predictive technologies that help companies win more customers and gain deeper insight into the untapped revenue opportunities within a business’ existing pipeline. The new Infer sales analytics package for Microsoft Power BI allows sales and marketing leaders to easily find deals that will close quickly, leveraging Infer’s Predictive Intelligence through Power BI’s rich dashboards and interactive reports for easier understanding and live monitoring.

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Introducing the new Power BI JavaScript API

Today we are excited to announce the release of our new JavaScript API, which provides bidirectional communication between Power BI reports and your application. The JavaScript API enables you to more easily embed reports into your applications and to programmatically interact with those reports so that the applications and the reports are more integrated.

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Power BI enables connectivity to Snowflake

As part of the Power BI Desktop August Update we are very excited to announce a preview of a new data connector for Snowflake. Snowflake is a cloud-native elastic data warehouse service that makes it easy to bring together data from disparate data sources and make it available to all users and systems that need to analyze it. With the new Power BI Desktop connector, users can import data from Snowflake, combine it with data from other sources and build rich data visualizations as part of their Power BI reports.

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Power BI Desktop August Feature Summary

We’re releasing today the August Power BI Desktop update, which is filled with many new features and improvements! Today we are excited to share several new reporting features, new data connectors, and our new analytics pane, which is one centralized place for you to find all the analytical capabilities in Power BI and help in your data exploration.

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Present your data in style with the Power BI app for Surface Hub

Whether you’re presenting a budget, analyzing inventory, or projecting sales figures, it can be difficult to effectively present your data. How do you tell a story and guide your listener trough the multiple data points? We can help! The new presentation mode in the Power BI Mobile app is specifically designed for the Surface Hub and other big touch screens, so you can bring data presentation to the next level.

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Power BI solution templates: Federal retention and graduation outcomes disclosures

All post-secondary institutions receiving federal funds are required to meet federal retention and graduation reporting requirements as mandated by the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008 (HEOA) and outlined in the National Postsecondary Education Cooperative (NPEC)’s “Information Required to Be Disclosed Under the Higher Education Act of 1965: Suggestions for Dissemination”. Meeting these requirements can be an arduous and tedious task for many institutions — that is, prior to Power BI.

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