Power BI sample reports, refreshed with modern visual defaults

With the general availability of the new Power BI defaults, we’ve refreshed many of the sample reports you already know. The updated samples pair cleaner, more consistent report design with stronger semantic models, giving you practical examples that are easier to explore, learn from, and reuse.

Download the refreshed 2026 Power BI sample reports and open them in Power BI Desktop to see the changes for yourself.

What’s new

This refresh goes beyond visual polish. We improved both the semantic models and the report experience, so each sample demonstrates current best practices from data preparation through report consumption.

Stronger semantic models

A well-designed semantic model makes reports easier to build, understand, and maintain. Across the samples, we:

• Renamed tables, columns, and measures so their purpose is clear.
• Added concise descriptions to guide report authors.
• Created measures for common analysis, such as win percentage and high backorder risk.
• Applied consistent display formats for decimals, currencies, and dates.
• Configured sort-by columns so categories appear in the expected order.
• Hid technical columns that are required by the model but not intended for report authoring.
• Validated default summarization settings for columns.
• Reviewed relationships for active status, filter direction, and cardinality.
• Added calculation groups where reusable patterns—such as inactive relationships and period comparisons—made sense.

Figure: Use the Theme pane to apply the latest base theme updates to an existing report. Keep your semantic model organized with clear, friendly descriptions so report creators can quickly find and use the data.

Modern report design

We also updated the report pages to make them more consistent, responsive, and easier to navigate. The changes include:

• Applying the latest base theme from the Theme pane and the larger default canvas.
• Creating mobile-optimized layouts.
• Adding report page tooltips where they provide helpful detail.
• Replacing visuals that are no longer recommended, including Bing Maps and the Q&A visual.
• Reducing unnecessary shapes and text boxes by using built-in padding, titles, and subtitles.
• Consolidating groups of individual cards into the new card visual.
• Using newer visuals and capabilities such as the date picker and button slicer.

Explore the refreshed samples

Competitive Marketing Analysis

This retail-focused report highlights the new card visual, donut center values, smooth line styling, Azure Maps, and conditional formatting across charts. Together, these updates make key comparisons easier to scan without adding visual clutter.

Figure: The refreshed Competitive Marketing Analysis overview combines sales metrics, channel and product performance, and monthly trends.Figure: A channel-and-state treemap paired with Azure Maps pie markers compares regional sales volume and channel mix across top-performing states.Figure: A sentence-style tooltip surfaces data point context naturally, while conditional formatting makes year-over-year changes easy to spot.

Revenue Opportunities

This opportunity-pipeline report combines a Shape Map with a report page tooltip and combo chart. Hovering over a bar or line reveals extra context, helping report readers investigate revenue opportunities without leaving the page.

Figure: The Revenue Opportunities overview unites revenue, opportunity count, regional performance, pipeline stage, and monthly trends.

Regional Sales

This already rich sales report now uses the larger canvas, the new card visual, page navigation, a Shape Map, and fixed-width improvements for table and matrix visuals. The result is a more structured experience that still supports detailed regional analysis.

Figure: The Regional Sales overview combines revenue won, pipeline, forecast, sales stages, product categories, and geographic trends in one executive view, with page and view navigation for faster exploration.Figure: The Regional Sales decomposition tree breaks total revenue into product, territory, campaign, owner, and industry drivers to reveal the most influential contributors.

Employee Hiring and History

This sample demonstrates how color, line and marker styles, custom tooltip text, and conditional formatting can direct attention to the most important workforce trends.

Figure: Employee Hiring and History pairs monthly hiring trends, age-group comparisons, a sentence-style tooltip, and a workforce matrix to explore patterns across employee types and regions.Figure: Age-group trends, year-over-year reference lines, a donut center value, and matrix conditional formatting highlight where bad-hire rates are highest and how they shift over time.

Corporate Spend

This report uses conditional formatting to make unusually high spending stand out. A button slicer, informative card reference labels, and field parameters create an interactive experience that can adapt as reporting needs change—with less ongoing maintenance.

Figure: Corporate Spend compares plan variance across regions and months.

Artificial Intelligence

This sample brings Power BI’s AI visuals together in one report, including Key influencers, the Decomposition tree, and anomaly detection in line charts. It’s a useful starting point for exploring likely drivers, drilling into contributing factors, and spotting unexpected changes.

Figure: The Key influencers visual surfaces the product, discount, manager, and purchase-process factors most tied to won opportunities, highlighting combinations most likely to improve close rates.Figure: Anomaly detection flags unexpected spikes and dips in revenue won, letting readers investigate the product and manager results behind each anomaly.

AdventureWorks Sales

The AdventureWorks sample now features a dark theme, donut center values, series labels, Azure Maps, and conditional formatting. It also shows how the date picker can provide calendar, range, and relative-date options in a compact footprint.

Figure: A dark-themed AdventureWorks Sales report unites customer, sales, cost, profit, product, and order trends.

Designed for every screen

The refresh doesn’t stop at the desktop canvas. Each sample includes a mobile-optimized view for the Power BI mobile app on phones and tablets.

Figure: Mobile-optimized layouts give each sample a purposeful phone experience.

In mobile layout, you can tailor formatting independently from the desktop view: reduce font sizes, adjust small-multiple and card layouts, turn off axes, unfreeze matrix row headers, and arrange visuals for a portrait experience. This lets one report deliver a purposeful experience across screen sizes.

Use AI to accelerate your own refresh

You can apply the same ideas to your reports with Skills for Fabric and Copilot for Power BI. Use AI as a starting point to explore your data, shape report content, and identify opportunities to modernize the experience—then apply your own business context and design judgment.