This month, we’re excited to share a major milestone for Power BI modelling tools – Power BI Desktop is now compatible with any semantic model in Fabric. With this update, you’re no longer required to rely on external tools to edit a semantic model running in Fabric. At the same time, it enhances interoperability between external tools and Power BI Desktop, enabling them to do even more.
» Read moreThis 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.
» Read moreWe are thrilled to announce that Power BI report buttons can now run Fabric User data functions for custom, automated action, including data write-back. This marks a major evolution in Power BI reports to support all kinds of translytical task flows, such as updating records, dynamic notifications, adding annotations, or even creating powerful workflows that trigger actions in other systems. Read more to see how translytical task flows can help streamline decision-making and end-user actions through automation.
» Read moreThere are a lot of exciting features this month, including mobile optimized report layouts, the best way to view data in the general availability of Power BI mobile apps, editing your semantic models with TMDL (Preview), and improved layouts for live editing semantic models. These are just a few of the updates this month.
» Read moreJust over a year ago, we introduced a set of embedded analytics solution accelerators created by our partners with our guidance. These tools significantly reduce the time-to-market for self-service analytics embedded into multi-tenant, web applications for ISVs and customers. The accelerators also enrich the Power BI Embedded experience by adding valuable new features. Last week’ at #FabCon 2025, we highlighted a new partner accelerator and highlighted our existing partners’ achievements and important enhancements to their accelerators.
» Read moreThe 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.
» Read moreWelcome to the February 2025 update! Welcome to our latest blog post, where we are thrilled to introduce some game-changing features for Power BI that will significantly enhance your data analysis experience. First up is the improved modeling performance for live editing of semantic models in Direct Lake mode within Power BI Desktop. This results in at least a 50% improvement in each modeling change.
» Read moreWelcome to the January 2025 update! Get ready to elevate your data analysis experience! We’re thrilled to announce a series of powerful new features designed to make exploring your data easier and more intuitive than ever. With the addition of the “Explore this data” option in the visual options menu, diving into your datasets is a breeze. Plus, our Treemap visual now boasts three innovative tiling methods for enhanced visualization.
» Read moreWe’re excited to tell you more about org apps, now in public preview. Fabric org apps are Power BI workspace apps rebuilt for Fabric as a new item type. With org apps as items, you can create multiple org apps per workspace. And you work with org apps the way you would any other item type – from creating a new org app, saving changes, managing access, to sharing the org app – all the things you find familiar and easy about managing other items, such as reports, will be familiar with org apps as items.
» Read moreWelcome 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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