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  If you’re a finance leader, CIO, or CFO who depends on QuickBooks +   Power BI dashboards   for real-time visibility, you’re in for a big change. Microsoft has officially started phasing out the native QuickBooks Online (Beta) connector in Power BI. By June 2025, it will disappear from the Power BI Service. By July 2025, it will be removed from Power BI Desktop. And by August 2025, any dashboard using it will stop refreshing automatically. That means your real-time insights could vanish overnight. But don’t panic, you still have options. Let’s break down what’s happening, why it matters, and how you can protect your dashboards before the deadline. What Is Changing With QuickBooks + Power BI? For years, many businesses relied on the QuickBooks Online (Beta) connector to pull live accounting and financial data into Power BI. It was simple: connect, refresh, and your dashboards showed live invoices, expenses, and cash flow. Now, Microsoft has confirmed: ❌ The connector is ...

  It starts with a simple question “Why can’t I just ask Copilot for that report?” That’s what one CIO recently told me his finance manager asked during a meeting. What was supposed to be a regular dashboard review quickly turned into something bigger: a conversation about the future of analytics. And that’s exactly what’s happening across industries right now. With Power BI Copilot rolling out everywhere, your users, finance leaders, operations managers, even frontline supervisors, are about to expect instant answers from their data. No waiting for reports. No building dashboards from scratch. Just ask, and Copilot delivers. Sounds incredible, right? But here’s the catch: are you ready for the flood of questions Copilot will unlock? Why Copilot Is More Than “Just Another Update” Microsoft has made one thing clear: Copilot isn’t just a new feature, it’s the future of how businesses interact with data. Think about it. For years, Power BI has been your tool for data visualization and...

  Last Monday morning, I received a call from the CFO of a mid-size manufacturing company. His voice was tense. Everything was working fine till a couple of days ago. But today, all our  Power BI dashboards  are showing blank. The live refresh from QuickBooks isn’t working anymore. My team is panicking, we can’t track cash flow, receivables, or sales in real time. What’s going on? If this has ever happened to you, you know how frustrating it feels. You open Power BI, expecting quick answers, but instead you see errors or old data. The reason? The QuickBooks Connector in Power BI is being discontinued. This sudden change has left CFOs, CIOs, and COOs struggling to fix broken dashboards, forced to make critical business decisions without the confidence of real-time data. But here’s the truth: this isn’t the end of your reporting. It’s a shift. And if you approach it the right way, you can not only restore your dashboards but make them smarter, faster, and more reliable than...