279 episodes
BIFocal - Clarifying Business Intelligence John & Jason
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4.7 • 22 Ratings
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For the past several years, Business Intelligence has been the #1 top ranked IT priority for CIOs and business leaders according to Gartner. It is a very exciting time to be in the BI space, with massive investments from Microsoft in their 2016 wave of products specifically focused on this area. Not only are there major product releases on the horizon, specifically SharePoint & SQL 2016, but Power BI continues to release updates, new features, and content packs on a very regular basis.
Microsoft MVPs John White & Jason Himmelstein will attempt to keep you up to date on all of the latest and greatest BI changes every month. They will give some interesting tips & tricks, show fun features, bring on relevant guests, answer your questions, cover the News, and generally have a great time with this exciting topic.
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Episode 279 - Power BI & Fabric June 2024 Feature Summary
This is episode 279 recorded on July 11th, 2024 where John & Jason talk about the Microsoft Fabric, including Power BI, June 2024 Feature Summary including a Visual Calcs update, updates to downloading large semantic models, the new PBIR file format, and external sharing API for OneLake, a Spark Connector for Fabric Datawarehouse, and much more.
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Episode 278 - Microsoft Build 2024 News
This is episode 278 recorded on May 24th, 2024 where John & Jason talk the news from Microsoft Build 2024 including lots of great new stuff for developers in Microsoft Fabric, Snowflake Apache Iceberg shortcuts, and the announcement of Real-Time Intelligence in Fabric.
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Episode 277 - Power BI & Fabric News
This is episode 277 recorded on May 10th, 2024 where John & Jason talk the news in the Power BI space including Power Query support in paginated reports, Copilot Pane in Power BI Desktop & Copilot being available by default soon, and the announcement of support for reports in SharePoint & OneDrive with live connected semantic models.
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Episode 276 - Power BI April 2024 Feature Summary
This is episode 276 recorded on April 22nd, 2024 where John & Jason talk the Power BI April 2024 Feature Summary including the announcements made at FabCon in Vegas, Enhanced Q&A, Storytelling in PowerPoint, and Copilot in Power BI Desktop.
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Episode 275 - Power BI March 2024 Feature Summary
This is episode 275 recorded on April 22nd, 2024 where John & Jason talk the Power BI March 2024 Feature Summary including on-object interactions update, Power Query in Paginated Reports, DAX Query View updates with Copilot, enhancements to model editing in the service, and more.
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Episode 274 - Power BI February 2024 Feature Summary
This is episode 274 recorded on March 19th, 2024 where John & Jason talk the Power BI February 2024 Feature Summary including updates to Visual Cals, Power BI Home, Measure descriptions with Copilot, Data overview in Explore, and TMDL in Power BI Desktop Developer Mode.
Customer Reviews
New to this all
I'm new to BI and this show has been a great way to learn the jargon of the profession and start to understand what I'm doing. I highly reccommend it.
Delivery & format needs polishing, but topic list is interesting.
Your topics are relevant. But the delivery needs a lot of work. The podcast has a high noise/content ratio. Lots of silly asides and long introductions. For the 5 episodes i listened to, i found it best to skip the first 5 minutes and the last 3 minutes, because the hosts make lots of smalltalk and jokes. None of it is relevant to the listener. And during the conversation, there are a lot of silly asides that can be confusing for those of us who haven't met the hosts. That is distracting in a podcast. There doesn't seem to be any structure to each episode. Instead, it feels like a stream of conscious delivery like you'd get if you just walked up to someone and asked them about the topic.
Engaging
I really enjoy the content and focus on Microsoft PowerBi and how it’s being used by various groups. I like the attention to how the product is evolving from the desktop and mobile app, to on-prem server, to the service in the cloud. Very useful to get ideas in this space.
Keep up the great work, gentlemen!