The Power BI August 2025 Feature Summary introduces major updates in Copilot and AI, reporting, and modeling. Highlights include Copilot integration for SharePoint Online, measure description automation, and advanced data modeling features.
Read moreIn the August update of Power BI Desktop, we released the general availability of inline hierarchies. We took inline hierarchies out of preview, and replaced this previous drill experience with the inline hierarchy experience. Since that update, we have heard feedback from you that while this new experience is very useful, you still have a need for the older experience, especially when using drill with unrelated categories in the hierarchy. Today we are releasing an update to the August Power BI Desktop release that gives you the ability to use both of these experience in one chart!
» Read moreWebTuna is an on-demand service for alerting and monitoring the performance of your internet or intranet sites and applications. We are excited to announce the availability for a Power BI content…
» Read moreThis week, Guy in a Cube looks at the new Power BI auditing feature. He shows how to activate auditing, and how to use it to understand who is doing what with your data within your organization.
» Read moreMachine Learning is a great way to use your existing data to identify trends going forward. In our webinar on September 20, 2016,, Gregory Deckler will show us step-by-step how to get started using this very exciting Azure Service, using Power BI and R script.
» Read moreLast month we put out the call for sports-themed submissions — along with other topics that interest you — to the Data Stories Gallery, and we got some fantastic entries! Congratulations to the grand winner, Wooseok (Michael) Yi, and our six runners-up. See the most recent featured data stories, and learn about our inspiration topic for the next month!
» Read moreNext week brings us three webinars for your viewing pleasure! These great presentations cover topics like how to get started with custom visuals by one of our data MVPs, how to use Power Apps (and the Common Data Model) to make it easier to collect business data, and a case study and review of best practices with Real Sociedad reports by one of our top designers.
» Read moreServiceNow provides service management for every department in your enterprise, including IT, human resources, facilities, field services, and more. We are excited to announce the availability of a Power BI content pack for ServiceNow that’s focused on incident management. The content pack gives you instant access to multiple reports and insights on your active, recently resolved, and recently closed incidents.
» Read moreInfer 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.
» Read moreHi, everyone! We’re happy to share the latest updates to the Power BI Mobile apps. This month, those updates include mobile-specific improvements, such as manual refresh for Direct Query, and adding features to ensure parity across platforms. Let’s look at some of the updates for August…
» Read moreToday 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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