In 2023, Microsoft released Power BI Projects (.pbip) with the aim of introducing native CICD support to Power BI.

One year later, the functionality is still in preview but has become much richer, thanks to the support for TMDL (Tabular Model Definition Language), which allows semantic model versioning in a human-readable format (YAML style).

Improvements have also been made from a layout perspective, introducing the Power BI Enhanced Report Format (PBIR), which facilitates versioning, "change tracking," and "two-face" editing in an easy and supported manner.

In this session, we'll see PBIP in action with TMDL and PBIR to explore the strengths and weaknesses of this powerful technology and how it's integrated in the Fabric ecosystem with git integration.