274 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 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.
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Episode 273 - Interview with Alex Powers
This is episode 273 recorded on January 26, 2024 where John & Jason talk to Alex Powers, Senior Program Manager on the Power BI CAT Team at Microsoft, about Copilot in Data Factory and much, much more.
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Episode 272 - 2023 Predictions Review and New Predictions for 2024
This is episode 272 recorded on January 12, 2024 where John & Jason do the annual year end wrap-up. Jason comes out ahead on his predictions from 2023 - but only by a little, and everybody has a few interesting predictions for 2024.
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Episode 271 - Power BI December 2023 Feature Summary
This is episode 271 recorded on December 15rd, 2023 where John & Jason talk about the Power BI December 2023 Feature Summary including a Community update, On-object Interaction updates, Extended customization for data labels, and the OneLake datahub in Power BI Desktop.
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Episode 270 - Traveling updates & a visit to CERN
This is episode 270 recorded on December 3rd, 2023 live from the Autobahn where John & Jason talk about what they have been up to lately including presenting at ESPC23, their visit to CERN, and the upcoming Microsoft Fabric Community Conference.
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Episode 269 - Power BI November 2023 Feature Summary part 2
This is episode 269 recorded on November 22st, 2023 where John & Jason talk the Power BI November 2023 Feature Summary, part 2, including the new Explore feature, OneLake integration for Import-mode semantic models, and stored credentials for Direct Lake semantic models.
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!