Copilot for Power BI: Your Ultimate Copilot Guide
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- Have you used Copilot for Power BI? Do you know there are different copilots within Power BI? Carly joins us for the ultimate Copilot for Power BI guide!
Overview of Copilot for Power BI (preview)
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Create report pages with Copilot for the Power BI service
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Create a narrative with Copilot for Power BI
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Summarize a report page in the Copilot pane
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Use Copilot to create measure descriptions (preview)
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The DAX bits alone made my socks fly off. That diff view is genius
Amazing content! would love to see a more detailed look on how to use Copilot in creating reports and dashboards
I believe all these nice things are available on Fabric only and on plans that cost over 5000 USD/month, isn't it?
Absolutely correct... and way out of range for almost all small-midsize organizations.
@@brycedwhite1 This is what I'm now finding out. Shame that the power bi premium per user license won't let you utilize this. We're a smaller company and can't afford the fabric licenses.
All this stuff is really cool! On the side note, I was convinced I left my setting for Playback speed at some 125% 😅 But this just shows how much Carly loves what she does, absolutely great geek!
I would like to see what happens with Copilot when you have an ugly baby semantic model. Great demo but I assume that it requires an almost perfect model.
I'm not worried. Instead there will plenty of work to correct ugly babies models for this to work.
This would definitely be an interesting challenge. I would also be curious to challenge it with Optimising DAX.
Yes optimization is an important factor which everyone wants to see how it will get automated
My question exactly! A lot of my stakeholders are hesitant with real life business cases because this requires a model that is built precisely to be handled by Copilot
Would also be nice to see something other than sales for once.
The diff functionality in DAX editor is really cool. Will help a lot with understanding new ways of doing things.
Amazing!! What a great demo, thanks Carly!
Love this great progress - its exactly what we want to see
Waiting for copilot for devoloping also Paginated Reports ;)
very interesting !! What is the cost of using copilot on Service ? how costing works for end users ??
"Feel free to play around with it. This is in public preview now". Am I right I won't be able to play with it until I have one of paid SKUs: F64 or higher, or P1 or higher? Is there a free option for testing this feature?
by the looks of it , no
You can limit the cost by creating the F64 and pausing it whenever you're not using copilot (won't help with report consumers but at least for the report creation)
How do we enable these features? What type of license is needed to avail all these features? Do we need a Premium Capacity license or Premium license? Do we need to get Copilot additional license by Microsoft which cost $30/month?
Exactly my questions.
So, yeah, anytime I want to use the "Copilot" function in my PBI service environment, it essentially tells me that I need to have a Premium Capacity license. Premium Per User licenses don't count. (Yet?)
Yeah this kind of information would be nice to have in the video...Pretty misleading that they said everyone in powerBI can use it.
Thanks for the video guys, fantastic job! You could've checked on the quality of the video before posting. It is way below acceptable range even after changing to HD. Please take this as positive feedback.
Q: When will msft open this to the $10 tier users so we can at least gauge the viability of this feature before plunking 5 grand per month. In a limited capacity, of course.
With the compute costs of it, I'm not holding my breath that it will be any time soon. Could be wrong, of course.
Q: is it possible to use Copilot chatbot within MS Teams. Idea is that We would like some key users ask insights without opening BI reports. Mostly executives. Thanks.
Yes, it is very much possible.
Great stuff! it's going to change how BI reports are authored and used.
Explain how?
Human developer creates a fact table and star schema.
Or multiple fact tables and a constellation schema.
AI doesn't do it any differently, it just puts it together in a worse way for people that can't do it themselves.
"A copilot and a function walk into a var"! - Carly and Rein haha!
Great demo!
can it be used for data analysis? full analysis and output report creation?
I actually like to use Ableton more than Logic Pro because of you. Big cudos to you for this video right here
Thanks Carly that's a great demo
In order to use Copilot in PowerBI, do I have to get Fabric licences? It means I will need to pay around $300/ month to use Copilot, right?
Pretty sure you need a Fabric license and at least a F64 SKU (equivalent to a P1). So, it's pricey. However, you can turn it on in off in Fabric. So you could just turn it on for an hour here and there to play around with and then turn it back off. Wouldn't think that would be too pricey. But MAKE SURE that if you do this, you turn the Fabric capacity off when you're done playing around. Or you will not be happy at the end of the month.
@@K_dyub: we can turn that level on & off? So for example, $5k a month, would be around $167/day so about $7/hour? that's not bad to try something out. But good advice about turning it off when you're done. $5,000 would be a disappointing surprise!
I'm blown away. love PowerBi Copilot
Carly was super cool🐞
how much of this is behind additional pay walls - beyond standard pro licence?
when will this be available in a thin report connected to an enterprise model ?
Does Copilot technically look into synonyms as well in the data model to understand questions? Does maintaining synonyms improve the capability of Copilot to answer questions or does only the old Q&A visual use these synonyms?
Is it correct that Copilot can only be used in combination with a prermium or F64 capacity, which costs minimum 5.000$ per month?
Good question I’m struggling to get this to work and had seen this somewhere. Yet this video says anyone can use
I have a question(from the perspective of a E-Vendor at Microsoft)!
When I used extensions to work on my measures of PBI before copilot came out, it wasn’t able to parse through some data cause those tables were protected by MSFT, but if I use copilot on the same, will it be able to process the protected data from sources like Dim_MarketingLead table, or the ONESMBAS Cube, etc.? And is it ethical to do so?
is that premium license needed for fully assessing copilot in Power BI?
Does the copilot work for reportS which is embedded in application with app owns data model.Details: Reports are present in fabric capacity with F64 Size
Completely blown away!! So useful!! And how does MSFT release these major upgrades so fast?!
When will we get Copilot into powerbi desktop ? Is it with free version PBI app or not?
Great content!!!
How do we get access to this feature?
Q: So, does it mean in next 1-2 years industry will not need an expert dedicated Power BI developer? With the Copilot included now it will be anyother tool for the senior business persons like how world uses email applications in day to day work life?
Is there anything similar for Model documentation? - Is there are way to highlight differences from one version to another.
Where will it all be available in free version ?
You made me smile, wait " I am a new person"
Great video. Is this only available in PBI Premium? Not in Service?
She has a lot of energy and good vibes.
Can I use this Copilot in a PPU workspace capacity? it does not look like it.
No, you can't.
Is that functionality already available to users in Europe?
Looks useful information, thanks
Great demo. Iam curious to know how the narrative visually actually summarise the page ( does it scrapes the data and visual on canvas) and how it provides citation like does it have the visual id refrence with it
Correct, we scrape the visual data that is already visible to the viewers of the report. We do not go to the data in the underlying semantic model, but perhaps we will in the future.
Also correct on the citations. We keep the data tagged with the visuals they came from, so that the responses can help the user to understand where the summary is coming from.
Pulling from the model would be challenging if using RLS though right? I wouldn’t want the risk of exposing insights from data the user shouldn’t have access to.
@@lemps81 100% if and when this is implemented it’ll respect RLS and OLS.
@@vivmaha amazing. Looking forward to getting going with it!
Will it replace power bi jobs ,i mean High level management people will be able to create power bi report's?
(personal opinion) Copilot will help existing report creators. It'll remove the mundane. It'll provide inspiration. Just like calculators didn't get rid of accountants.
This is amazing, Can we control/cap % of CPU consumption allowed by Copilot so that critical report performance are not affected?
It is mostly a different set of CPUs (GPUs) that will power Copilot. So your report performance will largely be unaffected.
Amazing demo!
this is interesting, beautiful Co pilot integration
This is incredibly amazing.
Dont you need the licence type that costs like $3000 a month to get this at the moment??
Would like to know when the copilot narrative visual will be functional within a PBI Embedded SKU…
Not sure. Which embedding are you interested in? Embed for your customers, or for your org?
very good video. thanks 🙂
my workspace keeps saying workspace isnt compatible with copilot. Ive got it enabled in the tenant. What am I missing?
Did you ckeck ypu SKU? You need to be licensed for either F64 or P1. Will not work with the ftrr trial licsnse.
It really Insane, Amazing!!
you're so great guys!!
really amazing especially DAX
Sweet holy mother of awesomeness!
Q. Is description generator available for generating multiple measures description also for calculated columns?
Multiple measures are a great idea. Keep an eye out for it.
@microsoft When can we get that in India
insane amazing
Ok this is amazing
wow es increible
How does the regular person get this in fabric? 10k a year?
It kicks in at F64 or P1 . A P1 is $5k per month.
@@Analyse_UScough cough!! So we start the age of the have and have nots in tech. At least we will really know how it works, I guess..
@@daustonian9331 Also a lot of busineses won't be able to use it due to data soverignity issues - if they aren't comfortable with copilot processing the data in the US or France. This is a show stopper for us. Also looks like it is a CPU hog- if you have 20 copilot users on a P1 - it consumes about 10% of the capacities CPU resources. Fine if you proactively manage your tenant, but most companies don't have this much background CU to spare.
why the video resolution is so low? looks pretty blurry not for my old eyes ;)
In AUD this is 15,000 per month I hope they release a cheaper version soon!
So this is available in Premium?
No Fabric only
I couldn't doa lot of things like making a combination chart
She is so excited that sometimes I do not even understand her :(
Am I the only one who sees an added value for DAX part but not the rest?
I think, copilot should go more on Power Query side. It would add more value on that part, at least to my life as a developer. For now, I'm sticking with Chat GPT 4.
The resolution of the screen sharing is so bad. Please do something about it. Rest all seems fantastic.
Q: Thank you. Is there a way to enjoy copilot for free in power bi? Best!
Include copilot for python notebooks and scripts.
Seems like a “overfitting” demo, let’s hope it works as shown.
Wow! It’s like telling me you can’t use it because you are poor and don’t have a premium capacity. So miss out on it but here’s something that rich people have access to.
If you can get insight by putting bar graphs and line graphs together at random, I think you're usually slacking off on your work.
Who would have thought so many people are interested in copilot.....
so nobody is critical here. I tried the report create tool with copilot, its all basic stuff and nothing mind blowing what i expect from a AI. if you ask copilot to change a visual or a current page it cant. Also if you ask to create a page for example with only line graph visuals it creates a page but also with other type of visuals. So it doesnt feel like real AI or it is very basic. Also what microsoft never tells in this kind of video's are the costs on the capacity. Glady copilot doesnt cost a lot but you have to use the online report create tool that one eats easily a P1/F64 capacity. If you work with more than 5 people at the same time longer than a hour it is on 100%. For now you dont miss a thing if you dont have premium capacity.
Exactly. Anyone who thinks this is amazing has genuinely never held an analytical role. I see datapoints suggested to be “insights” and yet, they’re nothing of the sort. It is the classic case of techies not having a clue as to the actual purpose of creating BI.
I assessed Copilot for our Board. For us, it would’ve been a £1m uplift on the monthly operating cost. I reached out to our account lead at MS and they couldn’t even articulate simple ROI scenarios. That is really basic for an investment and they couldn’t do it.
Anyone who knows MS - I’ve worked with them for over 20yrs - understands that they have a huge problem. All they’re currently doing is spitting out products with very undefined benefits, and it is really frustrating enterprise. They don’t like a “no” either; seem to think that they’ve gods gift and we will just buy any old rubbish.
This sort of stuff is the latest gimmick and you can rest assured, it’ll be something else in 6mths time.
I guess No one would require a Power BI developer in future 😢
We are screwed with this Copilot 😅
Copilot can't write measures, also it can't help improve an existing report. It is for very basic reporting.
Great, users , i think now company dont need PBI developers, in future
Microsoft has done a poor job of explaining the ROI. If anyone thinks that ‘matter of fact’ bullet points is a “narrative”, they haven’t worked with senior stakeholders. True insight comes in the ability to explain WHY a data point has increased or decreased.
In my company, I sit on a board. We expect the Leads to robustly explain performance and that requires them to understand and own the data. If any of them turned up with this rubbish, believe me - they would be fired.
Smart Narrative and Power BI insights can tell you why something has Increased or decreased.
that is the province of advanced stats where human human judgement governs selection of the analytical model--quasi exp designs, SEMs, etc--far from what's shown here.
Nothing is on Public Preview unless you switch to a FABRIC Workspace or enable the 60 days Fabric Trail! Whats the point of showing all these fancy functionality to our users , and they fall in love with it , but do not have the budget to upgrade!?
I dont understand why we need to be on Fabric if we are only going to be using Power BI and CoPilot. We dont need 95% of the offerings.. only Power BI.
Pretty cool, but not premium capacity money cool.
i cant even sign into copilot because of verification smh
So dramatic... YEEEES!!! 🤣
Thx guys.
Please Microsoft, provide good mic to all your employees. Their sound is terrible each time.
Impressive! :{>
Carly rocks! 💃 👩🎤 🌟
2:15 "Beautiful DAX" ? ? ? ?
In my experience, Copilot was a terrible POwer B expert, giving the wrong formulas, apologizing, then giving more wrong formulas.
ChatGPT was MUCH BETTER acting as a Power BI expert.
How could Microsoft screw that up?
This has been my experience so far as well. I will be curious to see how this evolves.
Thanks for the feedback. Would love if you can share examples so that we can improve.
Worse still of course, Co-Pilot is only available on paid for premium SKUs (Fabric or PowerBI)
@@vivmaha You don’t work for Microsoft. Go and get a job and you can stop pretending.
Why bother creating semantic model.. that should also be done by co pilot ... we should just give data and ask question .. very much like Thoughtspot
The price is more a joke
It's all fun & games untill your org turn off this feature because of security reasons xd
Like idk why copilot gets so much hype, for most of the time you dont have perfect models that can work with this very well
Give out 6 month trials so i can demonstrate to my leadership the roi so i can justify the cost 😭
wished she'd talk a bit faster....
The magic was... MS never told us this was beeing forced in an update. I dont want it. Killed it. Thumbs down.
I'm going to be honest here.
I'd rather go to UA-cam and find an actual human who explains how to write the code, and then me learn how to do it.
All this AI stuff requires perfect data to make it work.
My company has data that isn't perfect. AI just doesn't work too well to be perfectly honest.
Kind of like bi community...
This girl speak like an MG42 in Omaha Beach 6/6/44