Cloudfide’s Business Intelligence newsletter / Week 46–47, 2025
20 min
Sebastian Jagniątkowski
Published Nov 25, 2025
Welcome to: Cloudfide’s Business Intelligence Newsletter. 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 November 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 Power BI MCP - Quick Start Guide
Why is it interesting? Step-by-step setup guide for the Power BI MCP Server, enabling developers to connect AI models and agents to semantic models via VS Code.
Audience: Intermediate
Area: MCP Server / AI Integration / Setup
3️⃣ Semantic Model Optimization: Theory, Tips and Tools
Why is it interesting? Comprehensive 80-minute session on optimization fundamentals covering compression algorithms, row groups, partitioning, and practical tools for large semantic models.
Audience: Intermediate → Advanced
Area: Performance Tuning / Query Analysis / Optimization
4️⃣ Power BI Deployment Pipelines - Without Premium or Fabric
Why is it interesting? Practical guide implementing dev/test/prod environments using regular workspaces without Premium, with parameter-based connection switching for agile development.
Audience: Intermediate
Area: Deployment / DevOps / Best Practices
5️⃣ Model-dependent and model-independent user-defined functions in DAX
Why is it interesting? Guidance on the new DAX UDF feature, explaining dependency models, naming conventions, and best practices for portable, maintainable functions.
Audience: Advanced
Area: DAX / User-Defined Functions / Best Practices
6️⃣ Simple DAX Change can Speed Up Your Power BI Time Intelligence
Why is it interesting? Practical optimization technique using calendar-based functions to simplify query plans, reduce Storage Engine scans, with free template included.
Audience: Intermediate
Area: DAX / Performance / Time Intelligence️
7️⃣ The Impact of Primary Keys on DAX Query Performance in Power BI
Why is it interesting? Technical analysis showing how Primary Key columns in SUMMARIZECOLUMNS transform queries from SPARSE to DENSE, causing inefficient query plans with unnecessary outer joins.
Audience: Advanced
Area: DAX / Performance / Query Optimization
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