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Power BI November 2024 Feature Summary

November 12, 2024 by Patrick LeBlanc

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.

Demystifying Power BI Q&A – Part 3

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March 12, 2014 by The Power BI Team

In the last two articles, we walked you through Q&A’s basic linguistic capabilities and how you can optimize your model to best take advantage of them. Since those with short attention spans have long-since stopped reading, we can now safely…

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Meet Our Demo Contest Finalists: Carlos Costa

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March 11, 2014 by The Power BI Team

Today we’re launching a series called “Meet our Finalists” so you can get a closer look into what motivates these Power BI rock stars to keep pushing self-service analytics to the limit. Our first finalist is Carlos Costa, creator…

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Express Your Cells with Power BI for Office 365

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March 7, 2014 by The Power BI Team

Power BI for Office 365 makes it easier than ever to find the story in your data and help your spreadsheets express themselves in surprising new ways. Watch this new video to see how you can “Express Your Cells” and turn your data points into a powerful…

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Demystifying Power BI Q&A – Part 2

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March 6, 2014 by The Power BI Team

Last time, we gave you the best case scenario for Q&A against a “raw” data import. However, in order to successfully understand the large swath of questions it is capable of interpreting, Q&A makes a number of fundamental assumptions…

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Working with Data Models created using SQL Server 2008 R2 PowerPivot for Office Excel 2010 in Power BI

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March 5, 2014 by The Power BI Team

Guest Post by Kay Unkroth Power BI supports PowerPivot data models of any version. Users can choose between SQL Server 2008 R2 and SQL Server 2012 PowerPivot for Excel 2010 or simply use the latest PowerPivot version directly integrated with Excel 2013…

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Carnegie Mellon University Improves Building Management and Energy Efficiency by Using Power BI Solution

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March 4, 2014 by The Power BI Team

Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is one of the world’s leading research institutions with a reputation for developing innovative technologies. The University’s Center for Building Performance and Diagnostics looks for ways to improve energy…

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Microsoft Adds Connectivity for SAP BusinessObjects to Power BI for Office 365

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March 3, 2014 by The Power BI Team

Last month, we released Power BI for Office 365, our cloud-based business intelligence service that gives people a powerful new way to work with data in the tools they use every day – Excel and Office 365. We continue to add capabilities to Power…

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The Oscars with Power BI

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February 28, 2014 by The Power BI Team

Move over Winter Olympics at Sochi—it’s time for the 86 th Academy Awards! While we roll out the red carpet, what better time to step behind the scenes and into Microsoft Power BI to create some visual effects on the most significant movie…

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Demystifying Power BI Q&A – Part 1

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February 27, 2014 by The Power BI Team

Introduction By now, you’ve probably seen a demo of Power BI Q&A and may have played with one of our sample models. So at this point, you’re probably thinking one of two things: Either you’re amazed by how smart the system is…

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Power Map for Excel Now Generally Available, Automatically Updated for Office 365

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February 25, 2014 by The Power BI Team

Update: Learn more about Power Map Today, with Office Service Pack 1 , we’re announcing that moving forward Power Map will now be native to Excel. No longer a preview add-in, Power Map can now be found on the “Insert” tab in Excel…

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