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Power BI is Microsoft's enterprise analytics and business intelligence platform, enabling users to create reports, dashboards, and data models. Recent discussions on WindowsForum highlight Copilot integration for natural language queries, report creation, DAX queries, and model summaries, with features rolling out through 2026. Migration topics include retiring the Intune Data Warehouse beta connector and transitioning to newer connectors. Power BI is also central to Microsoft Fabric, unifying data across systems for faster reporting and AI readiness. Free learning tracks and virtual events like Microsoft Data Days offer skilling opportunities for Power BI, Fabric, and related Azure services. Enterprise use cases, such as Stibo Systems' Orion platform, demonstrate governed KPI management and AI preparation using Power BI within Fabric.
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    Copilot in Excel Adds Inline Citations and Power BI Grounding

    Microsoft’s latest Excel feature roundup is a remarkably focused release: nearly every meaningful addition is about making Copilot in Excel more capable, more connected to organizational data, and—at least in theory—more accountable for the answers it produces. The July update spans Excel for...
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    Microsoft 365 Copilot Uses Power BI Data in August 2026

    Microsoft is preparing to connect Microsoft 365 Copilot directly to Power BI’s enterprise analytics layer, allowing employees to ask ordinary business questions and receive answers grounded in reports and semantic models they are already authorized to use. Listed under Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID...
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    Power BI Copilot: Create Report Pages, DAX Queries and Model Summaries

    Microsoft’s Copilot for Power BI now covers more than chat-style questions about charts. As outlined in current Microsoft documentation, the assistant can create and edit report pages, summarize data, generate DAX queries, and help document semantic models—provided the organization has enabled...
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    Power BI Copilot Replaces Q&A Before December 2026 Retirement

    Analytics Insight’s July 17 roundup of Microsoft Copilot capabilities in Power BI highlights a useful reality for report authors and consumers: Copilot is no longer just a prompt box for summarizing dashboards. Microsoft now positions it across report creation, model documentation, DAX querying...
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    Migrate Power BI Intune Data Warehouse Beta Connector v1 Before April 2026

    If your Power BI reports still use the Intune Data Warehouse beta connector, Microsoft says you must move them to Intune connector v2 or the OData Feed connector before the retirement finishes after a gradual rollout beginning in late April 2026. Reports created after November 2025 already use...
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    Microsoft Free Summer Learning Tracks (2026): AI, Azure, Security, Power BI, Web Dev

    Microsoft’s free summer learning pitch centers on five career-friendly tracks — generative AI, Azure fundamentals, cybersecurity, Power BI analytics, and beginner web development — that can be studied online through Microsoft Learn, GitHub, or partner platforms in 2026. The courses are not magic...
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    Microsoft Data Days 2026: Skilling for Fabric, Power BI, Azure SQL AI

    Microsoft opened Data Days on June 15, 2026, as a global virtual skilling program running through August 7 for data engineers, analysts, developers, and AI practitioners working across Fabric, Azure Databases, Power BI, and SQL-based AI workloads. The event is Microsoft’s latest attempt to turn...
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    Stibo Builds Orion on Microsoft Fabric: Governed KPIs for Enterprise AI

    Stibo Systems said on June 9, 2026, that it built Orion, a governed enterprise data platform on Microsoft Fabric with Microsoft Purview and Power BI, to standardize business KPIs, consolidate data from systems including Salesforce, Workday, STEP, and legacy platforms, and prepare its operations...
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    Microsoft Fabric Cuts Reporting to 90 Minutes by Unifying Plant Data

    FoodPharma, a California-based contract manufacturer of functional foods, used Microsoft Fabric with implementation partner Kanerika to consolidate data from six disconnected business systems, cutting cross-functional reporting from roughly two business days to about 90 minutes after a...
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    PhysicsWallah x Microsoft: AI, Data & Copilot Courses for Job-Ready Skilling in India

    PhysicsWallah’s new partnership with Microsoft is best understood as part of a much larger race to turn digital skilling into a mass-market engine for employability in India. The collaboration, as described in the initial report, combines Generative AI, Data Analytics, and Digital Marketing...
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    Power BI Decision Intelligence: EPC Group's Six Layer AI Architecture

    EPC Group’s new six-layer architecture reimagines Microsoft Power BI as an enterprise decision intelligence platform — extending Microsoft’s Copilot with AutoML, LLMs, cognitive enrichment, RAG-based retrieval, agentic automation, and continuous forecasting so that dashboards don’t just report...
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    Copilot for Power BI: Speeding up optimization while preserving expert governance

    Microsoft’s latest push to fold generative AI deeper into analytics workflows has produced a headline-grabbing claim: 365 Copilot can shrink the time needed to optimize sluggish Power BI reports from days to minutes. The reality behind that claim is both promising and nuanced. In this feature I...
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    AT&T's Connected AI for Manufacturing: Edge AI, 5G, and Hyperscaler Synergy

    AT&T’s march into the industrial AI market is no longer experimental — at Mobile World Congress this week the operator rolled out a three‑pronged commercial strategy that stitches together expanded fiber, last‑mile 5G/fixed wireless, hyperscaler interconnects, and edge‑AI stacks aimed squarely...
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    How Zendawa AI Transforms Kenyan Pharmacies with Copilot and Power BI

    Ryche Pharmacy’s shelves are quieter and its ledger looks healthier since the store began using an AI app called Zendawa, a Kenyan startup that pairs inventory automation, delivery routing and business intelligence with Microsoft Copilot and Power BI — and the savings are already tangible for...
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    Quantexa Unify for Microsoft Fabric: AI Powered Entity Resolution in OneLake

    Quantexa’s announcement of Quantexa Unify for Microsoft Fabric promises to turn fractured enterprise data estates into a single, trusted foundation for analytics and AI — delivering advanced entity resolution, no-code configuration, and embedded Power BI visibility inside the Fabric ecosystem —...
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    Microsoft Fabric expands Oracle/BigQuery mirroring and adds Graph on OneLake

    Microsoft’s Fabric platform just widened its berth for enterprise data: Fabric now supports mirroring from Oracle and Google BigQuery into OneLake, and it adds a native graph database built on technology from LinkedIn to model relationships at scale. The mirroring capability creates a Delta...
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    Purview on Fabric and OneLake: Unified Governance for Safe, Discoverable AI

    Microsoft’s Purview team has positioned the product as the glue between governance, security, and responsible AI use inside Microsoft Fabric—announcing a set of targeted updates at FabCon that aim to make data in OneLake and Fabric workloads both safer and more discoverable for analytics and AI...
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    Semarchy and Microsoft Fabric: Master Data in OneLake with Delta Exports

    Semarchy’s new integration with Microsoft Fabric delivers a practical bridge between enterprise-grade master data management and the Fabric analytics and AI stack, publishing Semarchy’s enriched “golden” records and semantic models into Microsoft OneLake so Power BI, Fabric services, and GitHub...
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    Semarchy and Microsoft Fabric: Mastered Data in OneLake for AI-Ready Analytics

    Semarchy’s latest push to embed mastered, governed data into Microsoft’s Fabric stack signals a pragmatic next step in the race to make enterprise data both AI-ready and business-ready — bringing golden records, semantic models, and DataOps workflows directly into OneLake so Power BI, GitHub...
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    Power Platform for Social Housing: Real-time AI, CoE, and Live Analytics

    Crimson’s briefing for Housing Digital makes a persuasive case that social housing providers who have already adopted Microsoft Power Platform can—and should—move well beyond simple forms and automations to deliver measurable, tenant-centred improvements across repairs, tenancy management...
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