Want to format a measure based on a slicer selection, the measure value, or another conditional way? Now you can! With dynamic format strings for measures a DAX expression can now be used to determine what format string a measure will use.

Introducing data model editing in the web! A first step towards modeling parity in the Service.

We are happy to announce that we have just released the April 2023 update for the on-premises data gateway.

We are thrilled to announce that for the sixteenth consecutive year, Microsoft has been positioned as a Leader in the 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms. Microsoft has also been positioned furthest to the right for Completeness of Vision, and highest in the Ability to Execute in the Magic Quadrant for the fifth consecutive year.

Welcome to the Power BI April 2023 Monthly Update! We are happy to announce that Power BI Desktop is fully supported on Azure Virtual Desktop (formerly Windows Virtual Desktop) and Windows 365. This month, we have updates to the Preview feature On-object that was announced last month and dynamic format strings for measures. We have additional features in Reporting, Data Connectivity, Service, Paginated Reports, Mobile, and Visualizations. Read on to explore all we have to offer this month!

We are pleased to announce the public preview of a new Tabular Model Definition Language (TMDL), which offers a human-readable, editable, and collaborative format for Tabular Models.

In December 2020, we launched the preview of DirectQuery for Power BI Datasets and Analysis Services. Since then, we have worked with many of you to improve on this feature and get it ready for general availability. Today we are announcing that this feature has reached general availability.

The new feature of Deployment pipelines, Change review, completes the missing piece of the Compare action, by allowing you to review the schema of a changed item while its changed lines are highlighted. Check it out!

You can pin your workspaces on top of the list. And unpin them anytime as needed. This functionality enables you to easily navigate to the workspaces that are most relevant to you without searching through the workspace list.

Each year, as part of the Gartner Data and Analytics Summit, Gartner invites vendors from the Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms to show how their product can help solve real-world problems and find insights in real-world data. We wanted to share a video that highlights the features we demoed at the Gartner event.

Businesses today are constantly facing new and bigger challenges. Technology is diversifying and evolving faster than ever to address these issues, giving industries across the board a growing number of solutions to sift through.

Top 5 tips for improving performance of hierarchies in Power BI Metrics

Welcome to March! We have an updated version of the on-premises data gateway, compatible with the March version of PBI Desktop.

General availability for the additional Analysis Services settings for workspaces in Power BI.

After almost 10 years, support for Windows 8.1 has ended on January 10, 2023. In line with this, we will stop support for Power BI Desktop on Windows 8.1 on January 31, 2024. After that, Power BI Desktop will only be supported on Windows 10 and newer. The January 2024 release of Power BI Desktop for Report Server will be the last release to support Windows 8.1, and this version will only receive security updates until January 2025 per the Modern Lifecycle Policy.

Want to make multiple selections across all the slicers on your report page then apply them at once? Need a quick way to clear all the slicer’s selections at once, without a bookmark? Now you can!

Introducing On-object! The new way to build and format your visuals. We’ve heard time and again from our user research studies PBI desktop is hard to use. We’ve also seen countless new users struggle to navigate our UI to perform simple actions such as completely missing the fields pane all the way on the right side of the screen, unable to add data to the correct field wells, fishing around the format pane to rename, change colors, or format text styles of their visual. These same users instinctively right-click on areas of the visual expecting a menu to help. Aligning to our new “Office-like” strategy we bring you, on object. A new way to build and format visuals directly on the visual.

Announcing support in cross region support when working of Power BI and Power Apps Solutions

This Scanner API release extends coverage for artifact metadata, RDL data source properties, dataset sub-artifact metadata, and datamart metadata.