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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Sanofi Power BI Data Visualization Competition: An Inspiring Initiative Focused on the Paris Olympic Games

Last summer, Sanofi launched an exciting data viz challenge on the topic of the Paris Olympics.   With a goal to inspire and showcase advanced data visualization skills using Power BI, Sanofi’s initiative has proven to be nothing short of spectacular, bringing together 131 data enthusiasts across 25 countries!  In recognition of their exceptional work, Microsoft wants to put forward the three finalist teams’ reports, showcasing their diversity and creativity.  

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Updates to org apps (Preview) – more customization, deployment pipelines, and Git – plus what’s next like new license support and audiences!

In this blog post find overview of the latest updates and future plans for org apps (preview) in Power BI. Highlighting new customization options, Git support, and deployment pipelines that enhance the development and deployment of org apps. Additionally, this post outlines upcoming features such as support for Pro workspaces, paginated reports, mobile app viewing, and audience-based content display. This post aims to inform and guide customers on how to leverage new and upcoming capabilities to meet their organization’s data distribution and consumption needs.

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Deep dive into using notebooks with your semantic model (Preview)

We are excited to introduce one-click experiences that make it easier than ever to start using Fabric notebooks and semantic link to analyze your semantic models on the web! With pre-configured notebooks, you can effortlessly run Best practice analyzer and Memory analyzer to improve design, performance, and memory optimization of your semantic models. Additionally, explore and submit your notebook creations in the Power BI Community notebooks gallery to share notebooks that enhance your Power BI data analysis and reporting with the rest of the Power BI community.

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Uplift your storytelling by using annotations on your Power BI visualization in PowerPoint (Preview)

Transform data storytelling with data point annotations added to Power BI visuals in PowerPoint. The new Annotations feature enables you to communicate insights with greater efficacy and enhance the engagement and informativeness of your presentation. By adding data point annotations to visuals in your slides, you can provide contextual explanations or highlights attached to the relevant data points, which improves communication and understanding of the data being presented.

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Power BI March 2025 Feature Summary

This month, we’re thrilled to bring you a host of new features and improvements designed to enhance your data analysis and visualization experience. We’ve made significant strides in performance and usability, ensuring that Power BI continues to be a powerful tool for your data needs.

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Power BI DataViz World Championships | 2 Weeks Left to Compete!

The competition consists of 4 qualifying rounds over the course of 4 weeks, culminating in a live finale that takes place at the Fabric Community Conference in Las Vegas on March 31st! Each week, you’ll have an opportunity to submit your best Power BI visualization for the designated dataset. Winners of each round: One winner will be selected each week, for a total of 4 finalists.  Grand finale: The 4 finalists will face off in-person at the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference, where they will present their solutions live on stage to an audience and judging panel.

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