Cloudfide’s Business Intelligence newsletter / Week 44–45, 2025

Power BI October 2025 Feature Summary 

• Why is it interesting? An official summary of the new features included in Microsoft’s latest update. Here, you’ll find a complete list of all the changes along with links to their official documentation. 

• Audience: Beginner → Intermediate 

• Area: Feature Updates / Power BI / Power BI Service 

  
  

2️⃣ 3 Power BI Features That Will Save You Time 

• Why is it interesting? Practical video demonstrations of three immediate productivity wins: auto-grid layout for button slicers, highlight labels without DAX coding, and table auto-resize functionality that eliminates manual formatting tedium. 

• Audience: Beginner 

• Area: UI/UX / Report Design / Productivity 

  
  

3️⃣ A Real-World Example of Using UDF in DAX 

• Why is it interesting? Hands-on walkthrough of DAX User-Defined Functions with concrete implementation examples, showing how to build reusable parameterized DAX logic using Tabular Editor for enterprise-grade code organization and maintainability. 

• Audience: Advanced 

• Area: Advanced DAX / Code Reusability / Development Practices 

  
  

4️⃣ Thin Report Architecture: Solution for too Many Reports Pages 

• Why is it interesting? Video explains the three-stage evolution from monolithic PBIX files to scalable thin report architecture, demonstrating how to separate semantic models from reports for single source of truth governance and multi-audience delivery. 

• Audience: Intermediate → Advanced 

• Area: Architecture / Scalability / Report Organization 

  
  

5️⃣ How to Generate a DAXX File for Performance Tuning 

• Why is it interesting? Guide to capturing DAX query execution traces using DAXX format, enabling systematic performance diagnostics and targeted optimization rather than trial-and-error troubleshooting in production semantic models. 

• Audience: Intermediate → Advanced 

• Area: Performance Tuning / Query Analysis / Optimization