What's New: Power BI (for Subscription Billing) (2025 release wave 1)
Power BI app for Business Central Subscription Billing, announced for 26.1 in May and not April 2025. Demoed reports cover a KPI overview, churn analysis, revenue development, revenue by sales staff and a revenue forecast. The video mentions 14 new reports in total.
- Introduction to new Power BI app for subscription billing
- Subscription billing overview and KPI dashboard
- Churn analysis and recurring revenue metrics
- Revenue development and churn decomposition reports
- AI-assisted analysis and manual churn investigation
- Revenue reports by item, customer, and sales staff
- Revenue forecast report and conclusion
Overview
The video, from the 2025 release wave 1 What’s New series, presents a new Power BI app for the subscription billing module. It is announced for 26.1 in May, one month later than the April release.
The demo walks through the overview page with recurring revenue, active customers and a monthly churn rate KPI, then churn visuals and a churn decomposition chart. It continues with revenue year-over-year, revenue development, revenue by item, customer and sales staff, and a revenue forecast. Drill-through to customer contact details and contract details is shown in several places.
Key points
- The Power BI app for subscription billing is announced for 26.1 in May, not the April 2025 release.
- The app includes 14 new reports in total.
- The overview page shows recurring revenue, active customers and a monthly churn rate KPI, with drill-through to customer contact details.
- The churn visual and decomposition chart separate types of churn and downgrades. The AI explanation may not work well on flat datasets.
- The revenue development report shows new subscriptions, churn and downgrades with color coding.
- Revenue by sales staff drills through to transaction details and customer subscription contracts.
- The revenue forecast report uses sales and cost forecast data and does not take churn percentages into account.
Features
| Feature | Status | At | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Power BI app for subscription billing | announced, demoed | 0:31 | “Note that this will be not released in April, but in 26.1” (0:19) |
| Subscription billing overview page | announced, demoed | 0:52 | “Note that this will be not released in April, but in 26.1” (0:19) |
| Churn visual and analysis | announced, demoed | 1:53 | “Note that this will be not released in April, but in 26.1” (0:19) |
| Revenue year-over-year report | announced, demoed | 3:00 | “Note that this will be not released in April, but in 26.1” (0:19) |
| Revenue development report | announced, demoed | 3:29 | “Note that this will be not released in April, but in 26.1” (0:19) |
| Revenue by item report | announced | 5:59 | “Note that this will be not released in April, but in 26.1” (0:19) |
| Revenue by customer report | announced | 5:59 | “Note that this will be not released in April, but in 26.1” (0:19) |
| Revenue by sales staff report | announced, demoed | 6:12 | “Note that this will be not released in April, but in 26.1” (0:19) |
| Revenue forecast report | announced, demoed | 7:11 | “Note that this will be not released in April, but in 26.1” (0:19) |
Quotes
- 0:19 “Note that this will be not released in April, but in 26.1. So, you have to wait an extra month for this.”
- 1:17 “many of these reports have drill through to details. So the top five customer by monthly recurring revenue you can drill through to the”
- 1:53 “The first one is of course that you need to have recurring revenue. But the second thing also very important for subscription businesses is”
- 4:19 “You also have your churn rate KPI here, which in this case is your monthly uh churn rate, which is 34%.”
- 4:53 “I can have an AI explain um or a statistical model explain the key contributors to my churn or my downgrades.”
- 7:25 “Note that this report does not take churn percentages into account. So just so you’re aware of that.”
- 7:50 “Remember that it’s coming in May in 26.1. um you get a total of let’s see 14 new reports.”