October 2024 Updates for Power BI

The Power BI updates for October don’t slow down as we enter the last quarter of the calendar year.  Quick Measure Suggestions with Copilot has been replaced with Microsoft Fabric Copilot, and there is also an update with Azure Map – Data Bound Reference Layers, plus a preview of the New List Slicer.

The full list of updates is as follows:

Copilot and AI

• Enhanced Power BI report creation with Copilot (Preview)
• Quick Measure Suggestions with Copilot to be replaced with Microsoft Fabric Copilot

Reporting

• Visual calculations update (Preview)
• Azure Map update: data bound reference layers
• Marker enhancements
• New List Slicer (Preview)
• Power BI in Teams: announcing the retirement of the ‘Teams activity analytics’ report    

Modelling

• Dynamic format strings for measures (Generally Available)
• Introducing INFO.VIEW Data Analysis eXpressions (DAX) functions
• Value filter behaviour (Preview) 

Data Connectivity

• Snowflake connector updates

Mobile

• Power BI Mobile applications will no longer connect to Report Server using OAuth and AD FS 2016

Visualisations

• New visuals in AppSource
• Date Picker by Powerviz
• Cycle Plot by Nova Silva
• Drill Down Network PRO by ZoomCharts
• Decomposition Tree – All Expanding
• EDITable for reference / master data management with approval workflow, audit and governance
• ADWISE Advanced Column v1.0

Developers

• Power BI enhanced report format (PBIR) update (Preview).

As always, we'll be detailing these updates in our November 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.