Business Central 2025 wave 2 (BC27): Access open-sourced Power BI apps

Hi, Readers.
Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 wave 2 (BC27) is generally available. More details: General Available: Dynamics 365 Business Central 2025 release wave 2 (BC27).

I will continue to test and share some new features that I hope will be helpful. In this post, I would like to talk about Access open-sourced Power BI apps.

Access open-sourced Power BI apps:

Business value:

By open-sourcing the remaining Power BI apps for sales, purchasing, and projects, businesses now have complete access to the code for all standard Business Central Power BI apps. This means you can fully customize semantic models and reports to match your unique processes, KPIs, and reporting needs. Instead of starting from scratch, you can build on high-quality, ready-made models and visualizations, saving significant development time and effort. This flexibility empowers teams to create tailored insights, improve decision-making, and ensure reporting aligns perfectly with business goals. Ultimately, it accelerates adoption of data-driven practices across your organization.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dynamics365/release-plan/2025wave2/smb/dynamics365-business-central/access-open-sourced-power-bi-apps?wt.mc_id=DX-MVP-5004336

Microsoft have open-sourced the code for the Power BI apps for in Business Central 2025 wave 1 (BC26):

• Finance
• Inventory
• Inventory Valuation
• Manufacturing
• Subscription Billing
• Sustainability

Microsoft have also released the source code for the remaining Power BI apps in this wave (BC27):

• Sales
• Purchasing
• Projects

This is divided into two parts.

1. In Business Central:

You can find it directly in PowerBIReports:

Or add the dependencies attribute in app.json to download it from VS Code.

    "dependencies": [
        {
            "id": "e4e86220-cac0-4ec3-b853-7c2fa610399d",
            "name": "Power BI Report embeddings for Dynamics 365 Business Central",
            "publisher": "Microsoft",
            "version": "27.0.0.0"
        }

2. In Power BI: First you need to install the new version of the Power BI apps, for example
https://appsource.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/apps?search=business%20central%2027.0&page=1

Open Power BI:

Then find the new app in Power BI and click Edit.

Then click on the report app that needs to be edited.

You can edit this report directly or download it as a .pbix file.

Please note that the View mode cannot export .pbix files and edit the report.

You can change the Power BI semantic models and reports to fit your business needs now.

Great, give it a try!!!😁

PS: What’s new: Open sourcing Power BI apps for Business Central

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Hope this will help.

Thanks for reading.

ZHU