Cloudfide’s Business Intelligence newsletter / Holiday Edition
20 min
Sebastian Jagniątkowski
Published Dec 23, 2025
Welcome to the holiday edition of Cloudfide’s Business Intelligence Newsletter. 🎄 As we wrap up the year, we’ve prepared a curated digest of the most interesting and practical Power BI materials from the past two weeks to help you stay on top of trends and steadily sharpen your skills; below you’ll find a carefully selected list of practical and strategic resources, each entry explains why it matters, provides a concise summary, and includes a direct link so you can dive straight in.
1️⃣ Power BI 2025 holiday recap: What Changed and What’s Coming
Why is it interesting? Brief year-end overview of Power BI’s 10-year journey, highlighting major 2025 innovations like write-back, web modeling parity, and AI-driven “chat with your data”. Summarizes the platform’s evolution, combining product milestones with community stories to frame where Power BI is heading next.
Audience: Basic → Intermediate
Area: Product updates / Roadmap / Strategy / Analytics platform
2️⃣ 12 Best Power BI Tricks of 2025: Small Changes, Big Impact
Why is it interesting? Curated “greatest hits” list of small but powerful tricks in DAX, Power Query, and report design you can apply immediately to existing dashboards.
Audience: Intermediate → Advanced
Area: Productivity tips / DAX / Power Query / Report design
3️⃣ The Magic Combo: DAX UDFs + Calculation Groups!
Why is it interesting? Demonstrates how user-defined functions plus calculation groups drastically reduce measure bloat and make complex semantic models easier to maintain.
Audience: Advanced
Area: DAX / Calculation groups / Enterprise modeling
4️⃣ Star or Snowflake: Choosing the Right Schema in Power B
Why is it interesting? Side-by-side comparison that clarifies when to keep a clean star schema and when limited snowflaking makes sense, including performance and usability trade-offs.
Audience: Beginner → Intermediate
Area: Data modeling / Star vs snowflake / Best practices
5️⃣ Designing for Copilot: How Filters and Slicers Shape AI Answers
Why is it interesting? Explains how slicer and filter design shapes Copilot’s answers, with patterns for getting accurate narratives instead of confusing or off-topic insights.
Audience: Intermediate → Advanced
Area: Copilot / Report design / Governance
6️⃣ Documentation Without Pain: Faster Ways to Document Power BI Models
Why is it interesting? Shows how to turn the INFO VIEW MEASURES DMV into a “documentation dictionary” table so model documentation lives inside your report and stays in sync.
Audience: Intermediate → Advanced
Area: Documentation / DAX DMVs / Governance
7️⃣ Advanced Power BI Partition Refresh with Fabric
Why is it interesting? Walks through advanced techniques for refreshing only the partitions you need in Fabric‑backed semantic models, reducing processing time and avoiding unnecessary resource usage.
Audience: Intermediate → Advanced
Area: Incremental refresh / Partitions / Fabric / Performance tuning
Wishing you peaceful holidays, time to recharge, and lots of data-driven successes in the year ahead! 🎅
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