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 moreby Allison Fisher I’m on a team of 4 Microsoft interns who spent the summer working on a tool to enhance Power BI’s hot-path data reporting capabilities. We work on the Azure SQL Database Telemetry Team, which deals with high volumes of…
» Read moreNOTE: This information good as of 8/19/2015 and is subject to change! Questions around Licensing continues to be a top question I get asked about. Whether it is about licensing directly, or about some feature issue and it boils down to licensing. With…
» Read moreThe latest release of Power BI gives us a great opportunity to look at how some smart folks in the industry view the latest trends in business intelligence. Here are five ones you should know: BI for everyone BI used to be the sole province of data…
» Read moreAzure Mobile Engagement is an app analytics service that allows developers to track their application’s performance helping them increase retention and app usage. Using the Power BI Azure Mobile Engagement content pack you can quickly connect to…
» Read moreDo you want to ship your innovation and code as part of a new Microsoft product? Then read on! A few weeks ago , we open sourced the visuals we ship in Power BI placing them on GitHub. The repo, Microsoft/PowerBI-visuals , gives you everything you…
» Read moreNOTE: This information is good as of 5/16/2016 and is subject to change! If you are a Power BI Pro user, this entitles you to assisted support. In order to get that support, you have to go through your IT Admin who can then submit a Service Request via…
» Read moreThe Three V’s. People who know Big Data will talk about volume, velocity and variety – it’s a useful way to characterize both the benefits and challenges of Big Data. Let’s get you familiar with these terms, and how you can harness…
» Read moreUpdate 8/17 : The Mandrill content pack has been restored in Power BI, we apologize for any inconvenience. We are always interested in your feedback, please contact us at http://support.powerbi.com. Mandrill is an email infrastructure service developed…
» Read moreNote: This information is good as of 8/11/2015 and is subject to change! I had discussed part of this topic as it related to Excel Workbooks with the old Power BI service, but I wanted to refresh that and talk about the concept of the Data Model and highlight…
» Read moreYou need the latest data for that important business presentation – due in a couple of days. But accessing and transforming data is not at the top of your skillset, especially when the data resides in several locations, in the cloud and on-premises…
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