In its 2025 holiday recap, Microsoft Power BI celebrates a decade of innovation, highlighting major product advancements and global community events that defined the year. The Power BI 2025 year-end review underscores landmark moments—from its 10-year anniversary to breakthrough features empowering users to turn data into action faster than ever. Microsoft Power BI closes out 2025 with a celebration of ten years of impact, spotlighting community contests, anniversary initiatives, and powerful new capabilities.
Here are the highlights:
Leveling Up the Power BI Community
Power BI launched a two-month learning bonanza with discounted certification vouchers, a nostalgic startup experience in Power BI Desktop, and the Power BI Data Viz Championships — a global competition celebrating data storytelling by the community.
Build Once, Model Anywhere
Users can now create and edit semantic models directly in the Power BI service, achieving true parity with Power BI Desktop. This enables end-to-end development in the browser and empowers more users, including those on macOS.
From Insight to Action—Inside the Report
With translytical task flows, users can now take action directly from reports—writing data back to source systems and turning insights into outcomes without leaving the experience.
Ask Questions. Get Answers. Instantly.
Power BI introduced a full-screen “Chat with your data” experience, allowing users to ask natural-language questions and receive instant, secure answers from their reports, datasets, and apps.
Your Files, Now Analytics-Ready
OneDrive and SharePoint shortcuts in OneLake (Preview) make it easy to analyze familiar files—Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and PDFs —alongside structured data, creating a single source of business context without duplication.
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