What's New: Enhanced Subscription Billing Analytics (2026 release wave 1)

Overview

The video covers changes to subscription billing analytics in 2026 release wave 1. The Power BI subscription billing app UI was reworked to look and feel like the other eight Power BI apps. The overview report was updated to match version 28 standards.

Report changes include navigation visuals for filtering by clicking chart elements, visual indicators in matrix reports, tooltips on the revenue year-over-year growth report, bubble charts for revenue by item, and map visuals for revenue by customer and geography. The video also covers expanded demo data with more customer contracts, vendor contracts and transactions, and points to the documentation by searching for the subscription billing app.

Key points

The subscription billing Power BI app (almost 15 pages) was reworked to match the look and feel of the other eight Power BI apps.
The subscription billing overview report has a new layout; the video shows it as it looks in version 27 and in version 28.
Navigation visuals let users filter reports by clicking chart elements such as bars, instead of using the filter pane. Shown in the revenue analysis and churn analysis reports.
The revenue year-over-year growth report gained visual type changes and tooltips, without changing the underlying information. Revenue development also moved to a new visual with tooltips for details.
Revenue by item now uses bubble charts, where bubble size shows an additional dimension. Map visuals show revenue by customer and geography, as in other Power BI apps from earlier release waves.
Matrix reports now have visual indicators next to numeric values to show relative magnitude.
Demo data for subscription billing now has more customer contracts, vendor contracts and transactions, for demos in Power BI and in-client analysis mode views.

Features

Feature	Status	At
Unified Power BI Subscription Billing UI	status not stated, demoed	0:17
Subscription Billing Overview Report Redesign	status not stated, demoed	1:12
Revenue Year-over-Year Growth Report with Tooltips	status not stated, demoed	1:23
Navigation Visuals for Report Filtering	status not stated, demoed	1:52
Visual Indicators in Matrix Reports	status not stated, demoed	2:03
Revenue Analysis Report Updates	status not stated, demoed	2:19
Churn Analysis Report with Visual Filtering	status not stated, demoed	2:54
Revenue by Item Bubble Charts	status not stated, demoed	2:54
Map Visuals for Geographic Revenue Analysis	status not stated, demoed	3:34
Enhanced Subscription Billing Demo Data	status not stated	4:11

Quotes

0:17 “we are unifying the user experience for the Power BI reports on subscription billing to match the other apps so it just feels the”
0:33 “we also added better demo data in the subscription billing area. So if you’re demoing both subscription billing with analysis mode views or with”
1:01 “we completely reworked the UI so that it it it feels it has the same look and feel as as the other eight Power”
1:52 “if you go to different packages and just navigate and and choose these um bars instead of going to the filters, everything will will”
3:19 “the size of bubbles is now showing you something. So, that’s that’s what we’re bringing into the app from the other Power BI apps”
4:23 “hopefully both the Power BI apps but the in-client analysis will make it possible for you to tell some more data stories”
4:46 “just search for subscription billing app in our power in our documentation. That will take you to the documentation where you can read like”