August 2024 Updates for Power BI

It’s that time of the month again.  This month’s updates see you now able to ask Copilot questions against your semantic model.  But there is always more.  For example, updated Save and ‘Upload to OneDrive Flow’ in Power BI, plus the Narrative visual with Copilot is now available in SaaS embed.

The full list of updates is as follows:

Copilot and AI

• Ask Copilot questions against your semantic model (Preview)

Reporting

• Visual level format strings (Preview)
• Dynamic per recipient subscriptions (Generally Available)
• Deliver subscriptions to OneDrive and SharePoint (Generally Available)
• Updated Save and ‘Upload to OneDrive Flow’ in Power BI
• Data limit
• Visuals, shapes and line enhancements    

Modelling

• DAX query view in the web 

Embedded Analytics

• Narrative visual with Copilot available in SaaS embed

Visualisations

• New visuals in AppSource
• Filter by Powerviz
• Pie of Pie by JTA
• Drill Down Pie PRO by ZoomCharts
• Hierarchical Bar chart
• Deneb: Declarative Visualization in Power BI

Other

• Paginated Reports: sharing of reports connecting to Get Data data sources made easy.

As always, we'll be detailing these updates in our August newsletter. Please remember we have virtual / online training in Power BI which you can find out more about here.  If you are not already a subscriber, why not sign up at the bottom of any SumProduct web page?  And don't forget to download the latest version of Power BI Desktop here too.