Microsoft Power BI Updates Blog

Power BI June 2025 Feature Summary

This month’s update highlights several exciting preview features and an important action-required item for Power BI users. In preview, you’ll find updates to visual calculations, enhancements to numeric range and field parameters, both designed to offer greater flexibility and analytical power within your reports.

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Higher Education Analytics using Power BI #1: Retention

Partnering with Stetson University, I am happy to share the first of many Power BI Higher Education Analytics solutions. This solution shows student persistence, retention, and graduation patterns, leveraging a Student Information System (SIS) as the data source. Year-over-over retention and graduation rates can be filtered to allow deeper examination of trends at the college and major level. Additional views, including retention and graduation rate tables by major and ethnicity, are included within the report solution.

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Power BI Embedded is now Generally Available!

Today it’s my pleasure to announce the upcoming General Availability of Microsoft Power BI Embedded. Power BI Embedded is a globally available, cloud-scale service that gives ISVs the ability to create, deploy, and manage data-rich applications with ease. By leveraging Microsoft Power BI, ISVs can bring compelling and interactive data visualizations to their customers.

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Explore and Analyze your Xero data with Power BI

Xero is easy to use online accounting software that’s designed specifically for small businesses. The Xero content pack for Power BI allows you to visualize and monitor the accounting data from within each Xero business. The out of box solution includes information such as cash position, top customers, invoices due and many more. The interactive reports allow you to easily explore your data to understand even more.

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