November 2024 Updates for Power BI

November sees the introduction of Copilot in Power BI Mobile applications, allowing you to use AI to explore data on the go.  There is also a new Path layer for the Azure Map visual, making geospatial analysis more powerful by helping you easily map connections between multiple locations.  Microsoft also announced the OneLake catalog (sic), the latest evolution of the OneLake data hub, which offers a unified platform for data engineers, data scientists, analysts and decision-makers to browse, manage, and govern data all from one intuitive interface.

The full list of updates is as follows:

Copilot and AI

• Copilot in Power BI mobile apps (Preview)
• Copilot summaries in subscriptions (Preview)

Reporting

• Path Layer for the Azure Map visual
• Visual calculations (Preview)
• Small multiples for the new card visual (Preview)
• New visual: text slicer (Preview)    

Modelling

• Define new measures in DAX query view quick queries
• Metric sets: a new era of metric management in Fabric (Preview)
• Announcing performance improvements for models with calculation groups and format strings in Excel
• DLP policies restrict access action for semantic models (Preview)
• Semantic modelling in Visual Studio Code with the new TMDL extension (Preview) 

Data Connectivity

• Snowflake connector updates

Developers and APIs:

• Fabric Git: TMDL format for semantic model export
• Semantic model client library updates

Visualisations

• KPI by Powerviz
• Zebra BI Tables 7.3
• Waterfall PRO by ZoomCharts: interactive waterfall visual for financial data
• Lollipop Bar chart by Nova Silva
• Sales Velocity chart
• New book: Data Visualization with Microsoft Power BI

Other

• Support for Power BI language settings when a paginated report is viewed on the Power BI Service.

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