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Power BI
What is Power BI?
Microsoft Power BI is a cloud-based Business Intelligence platform that helps you transform massive amounts of data into meaningful, actionable insights. With an integrated ecosystem of services, apps, and connectors, Power BI unifies your data—in any format and from any source—into interactive dashboards and rich visual reports that drive confident decision-making across your organization.
Organizations of all Sizes and Industries in Saudi Arabia Rely on Power BI. Why Shouldn’t You?
Power BI connects seamlessly to hundreds of data sources, allowing users at every level to visualize trends, uncover patterns, and share insights instantly. No advanced technical background is required—Power BI empowers everyone to create sophisticated analytics experiences with ease.
For more than a decade, organizations of all sizes and industries in Saudi Arabia have trusted Power BI to modernize their analytics. We’ve helped SMBs and enterprises across the Kingdom create data-driven cultures, deliver real-time dashboards, and use predictive insights to move faster than ever before.
With Power BI, we’ve enabled SMBs in KSA to:
- Build a data-driven culture powered by self-service analytics.
- Empower teams to uncover insights hidden in their data.
- View clear, up-to-the-minute analytics to support confident decisions.
- Create and share interactive dashboards across global and local datacenters to meet compliance requirements.
Core Components of Power BI
Power BI is made up of several key components designed to support the full analytics lifecycle:
Power BI Desktop
A Windows desktop application where you can connect to data sources, model your data, and build interactive visual reports.
Power BI Service (SaaS)
A cloud-based online service where dashboards can be shared, consumed, and collaborated on across your organization.
Power BI Mobile Apps
Available for iOS, Android, and Windows—giving secure, on-the-go access to your reports and dashboards.
Power BI Report Server
An on-premises reporting solution for organizations that need to keep their data and reporting infrastructure within their own environment.
Core Features of Microsoft Power BI
Self-Service Analytics at Enterprise Scale
Reduce complexity and unify all your analytics needs on one secure, scalable platform.
Enterprise-Grade Security & Compliance
Protect analytics data with advanced sensitivity labeling and data loss prevention policies—even when exported.
Smart Tools for Faster Insights
- Leverage hundreds of visuals, built-in AI, seamless Excel integration, and prebuilt connectors to explore data intuitively.
- Find and share meaningful insights with hundreds of data visualizations, built-in AI capabilities, tight Excel integration, and prebuilt and custom data connectors.
Unmatched Excel Integration
Quickly connect Excel queries and models to Power BI dashboards for deeper insight and seamless reporting.Anyone who’s familiar with Office 365 can easily connect Excel queries, data models, and reports to Power BI Dashboards - helping to quickly gather, analyze, publish, and share Excel business data in new ways.
Industry-Leading Artificial Intelligence
Prepare data, build machine learning models, and uncover insights from structured or unstructured data—including text and images.
Take advantage of the latest advances in Microsoft AI to help non-data scientists prepare data, build machine learning models, and find insights quickly from both structured and unstructured data, including text and images.
Turn Insights Into Action with Power Platform
Combine Power BI with Power Apps and Power Automate to build apps and automate processes based on your insights.Go from data to insights and insights to action with the Microsoft Power Platform - combining Power BI with Power Apps and Power Automate to easily build business applications and automate workflows.
Unified Analytics, From Self-Service to Real-Time
Bring together semantic models, ALM toolkits, pixel-perfect reports, and live streaming data—from IoT to social platforms—so you can make confident, instant decisions on a single integrated platform.
Affordable and Accessible BI for All
Power BI Desktop is free, and Power BI Pro offers cost-effective analytics capabilities for every user in your organization.
Improve publishing efficiency and accuracy of BI content
Quickly identify differences and move content from development and testing to production with confidence using the simple visual cues in deployment pipelines.Accelerate Big Data Prep with Azure
Use Azure Data Lake integration to simplify analysis and collaboration across data teams.Simplify how you analyze and share large volumes of data. By using a no-limits Azure data lake, you’ll reduce the time it takes to get insights and increase collaboration between business analysts, data engineers, and data scientists.
What’s New in Power BI — November 2025 Update
The November 2025 Power BI Update delivers powerful new capabilities across reporting, AI, modeling, and data connectivity—making it easier than ever for organizations to work smarter and unlock deeper insights.
Key Announcements
1. Deprecation of R & Python Visuals (May 2026)
Support for R/Python visuals in Embed for Your Customers and Publish to Web will end in May 2026. After this date, these visuals will appear blank.
Embed for your organization and secure embedding remain fully supported.
2. Copilot & AI Enhancements
Standalone Copilot in Power BI Mobile (Preview)
A completely new mobile Copilot experience enables natural-language chat, instant visual insights, and even voice dictation (iOS).
Report Copilot Improvements
Generate complete report pages with richer visuals, better context understanding, and more accurate insights—now in Desktop and Service.
Remote MCP Server for Data Chat (Preview)
Chat with your data remotely using secure Entra ID authentication—retrieve schema, generate DAX, and run queries.Smarter Copilot Experience Across Power BI
- Automatic data-source selection
- New home-page prompts and entry points
- Improved attachment of content to questions
Verified Answers Upgrade
- Preserves full visual state (slicers, filters, drill-through)
- Support for the new Card visual and Azure Maps
- Filter limit increased from 3 → 10
3. Reporting Enhancements
Auto-Expand Matrix Columns
Matrix visuals can now intelligently distribute space across columns for cleaner layouts.
Enhanced Image Visual
New states (hover, pressed), borders, backgrounds, shapes, and flexible image sources bring richer storytelling to reports.
OneLake Catalog Integration (Preview)
Easily browse, filter, and select Fabric user-defined functions within translytical task flows.
New Card Visual (GA)
Supports hero images, dynamic collage layouts, custom ordering, and modern formatting—offering a fresh, unified design experience.
4. Modeling Enhancements
Modeling MCP Server (Preview)
AI agents can now modify semantic models, generate changes, and automate best practices using natural language via VS Code.Semantic Model Version History (GA)
Automatically captures up to five versions with easy restore—similar to Office versioning.
TMDL VS Code Extension (GA)
Includes DAX highlighting, Power Query support, code formatting, and localization for Power BI projects.
5. Data Connectivity
Spark & Impala Connectors (GA)
Rebuilt using ADBC for faster, safer, and more efficient connections across Fabric and Desktop environments.
New & Updated Visuals
- Activity Gauge by Powerviz – advanced target-tracking visual.
- Decomposition Tree All-Expanding – adds parallel breakdown charts.
- Zebra BI Dynamic Legends – adaptive legends for financial analysis.
- Drill Down Bubble PRO – multi-level bubble charts with custom markers.
- Power BI Theme Generator – AI-powered theme creation and brand alignment.
- Power Gantt Chart – supports task dependencies for real project scheduling.
- Synoptic Panel – turn any SVG into an interactive visual with advanced navigation.
Ready to Get Started with Power BI?
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