For many years, Power BI developers relied heavily on Import mode to achieve good report performance.

The Microsoft Power BI DataViz World Championships 2026 are here, and if you’re planning to participate, there’s one judging criterion that could make or break your entry: accessibility.

By the time I submitted my first DataViz contest report, it felt finished. I liked the result, had experimented with new techniques, and believed I had met all the judging criteria.

As we all know: Hindsight is 20-20.

Once the adrenaline subsided, the glaring mistakes appeared.
Alt text, in particular, didn’t hold up once I looked at it more closely. Multiple entries were missing entirely, and even where I had added alt text, I could tell that it felt wrong, though I couldn't tell yet why. 
I don’t have a time machine (yet, if you can see this, I’m still working on it), so I did the next best thing: studied and researched. Luckily for you, I’m sharing what I learned - so you don’t have to stumble into the same pitfalls I did.

With User-Defined Functions (UDFs) in DAX, we can now create our own formulas and use them again and again.
This makes reports cleaner, easier to understand, and reduces mistakes

The countdown is on! We’re thrilled to announce the return of the Power BI Dataviz World Champs - your chance to showcase creativity, analytical skills, and storytelling power in one epic contest.

Power BI Service provides built-in options to schedule daily and weekly dataset refreshes. However, there is no native option for monthly refresh. This limitation often becomes a challenge when business requirements demand a refresh on a specific day of every month.

In this blog, I’ll walk you through a practical and reliable workaround to schedule a monthly refresh for a Power BI dataset using Power Automate. The steps are explained in detail and are easy to follow, even if you are new to Power Automate.

In Power BI, slicers/filters are interactive visualizations used for filtering data within reports and dashboards. They enable users to refine the data displayed based on specific criteria, making the entire report more interactive and customizable. In this blog I will take a closer look at four popular slicers.

Turning Reports into Actionable Applications

A Game-Changer for Governance, Safety & Modern BI Development

Salesforce data extraction in Power BI doesn’t have to be an issue.
In this post, we explore how to configure a Salesforce External Client App and use the Client Credentials OAuth flow to securely query data using Power Query—perfect for enterprise-grade reporting.

With Microsoft Fabric becoming the backbone of modern analytics, Microsoft introduced a certification that perfectly bridges Power BI, data modeling, analytics, and Fabric workloads the DP-600: Microsoft Fabric Analytics Engineer Associate.

2025 was a year of massive evolution for the Microsoft data ecosystem, and with the rise of Microsoft Fabric as the unified analytics platform, Microsoft also introduced a fresh role-based certification designed specifically for data professionals: the DP-700 exam.

Microsoft has been steadily transforming Power BI into a developer-first, enterprise-ready analytics platform, and one of the biggest steps in that direction in 2025 is the introduction of the TMDL View in Power BI Desktop.

2025 has been a historic year for Microsoft Power BI.

From celebrating 10 years of Power BI to introducing AI-first experiences, Copilot everywhere, Fabric-first architecture, and enterprise-grade governance, this year truly redefined how organizations interact with data.