BIFocal - Clarifying Business Intelligence
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.
- Update frequency
- every 11 days
- Average duration
- 33 minutes
- Episodes
- 304
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
Episode 304 - Microsoft Fabric August 2025 Feature Summary
This is episode 304 recorded on September 4th, 2025, where John & Jason talk the Microsoft Fabric August 2025 Feature Summary including a new Flat list view in Deployment pipelines, Bursting controls…
00:41:34 |
Tue 09 Sep 2025
Episode 303 - Interview with Mike Carlo from Power BI Tips
This is episode 303 recorded on August 21st, 2025, where John & Jason talk to Mike Carlo from Power BI Tips.com about Power BI & Microsoft Fabric, how his company is doing Workloads in Fabric, a deba…
00:36:34 |
Tue 02 Sep 2025
Episode 302 - Power BI August 2025 Feature Summary
This is episode 302 recorded on August 20th, 2025, where John & Jason talk the Power BI August 2025 Feature Summary including Copilot in Embedded Reports for SharePoint Online, edit your data model i…
00:30:52 |
Thu 28 Aug 2025
Episode 301 - Interview with Andrew Connell & Julie Turner of Code.Deploy.GoLive
This is episode 301 recorded on August 20th, 2025, where John & Jason talk with friends and fellow podcasters Andrew Connell & Julie Turner of the Code.Deploy.GoLive show about how this podcast is AC…
00:27:35 |
Thu 21 Aug 2025
Episode 300 - Microsoft Fabric July 2025 Feature Summary
This is episode 300 recorded on July 31st, 2025, where John & Jason talk the Microsoft Fabric July 2025 Feature Summary including tags in Fabric Domains, Fabric Data Agent integration with Microsoft …
00:26:21 |
Tue 05 Aug 2025
Episode 299 - Microsoft Power BI July 2025 Feature Summary
This is episode 299 recorded on July 21st, 2025, where John & Jason talk the Microsoft Power BI July 2025 Feature Summary including expanded data sharing with Microsoft 365, Copilot updates, field pa…
00:31:11 |
Wed 23 Jul 2025
Episode 298 - Microsoft Fabric June 2025 Feature Summary
This is episode 298 recorded on July 9th, 2025, where John & Jason talk the Microsoft Fabric June 2025 Feature Summary including lots of Notebook updates in Data Engineering, lower cost for AI functi…
00:33:15 |
Tue 15 Jul 2025
Episode 297 - Microsoft Power BI June 2025 Feature Summary
This is episode 297 recorded on July 4th, 2025, where John & Jason talk the Microsoft Power BI June 2025 Feature Summary including updates to Visual Calcs, Sparklines are now GA (after 4 years), Azur…
00:26:38 |
Tue 08 Jul 2025
Episode 296 - Microsoft Fabric May 2025 Feature Summary
This is episode 296 recorded on June 6th, 2025, where John & Jason talk the Microsoft Fabric May 2025 Feature Summary including a REST API updates for Fabric, updates to User Data Functions, Copilot …
00:38:15 |
Tue 17 Jun 2025
Episode 295 - Power BI May 2025 Feature Summary
This is episode 295 recorded on June 5th, 2025, where John & Jason talk the Power BI May 2025 Feature Summary including a new fabric roadmap tool, Copilot & AI enhancements, Translytical task flows, …
00:46:08 |
Tue 10 Jun 2025
Episode 294 - Power BI & Fabric April 2025 Feature Summaries
This is episode 294 recorded on May 7th, 2025 where John & Jason talk the Power BI & Microsoft Fabric April 2025 Feature Summaries in a single episode.
00:39:06 |
Tue 13 May 2025
Episode 293 - Microsoft Fabric March 2025 Feature Summary Part 2
This is episode 293 recorded on May 6th, 2025 where John & Jason talk the Microsoft Fabric March 2025 Feature Summary including Data Science, Data Warehouse, Real-time Intelligence, and Data Factory.
00:42:07 |
Thu 08 May 2025
Episode 292 - Microsoft Fabric March 2025 Feature Summary
This is episode 292 recorded on April 22nd, 2025 where John & Jason talk the Microsoft Fabric February 2025 Feature Summary including Fabric Platform, OneLake, and Data Engineering.
00:37:59 |
Thu 24 Apr 2025
Episode 291 - Power BI March 2025 Feature Summary
This is episode 291 recorded on April 11th, 2025 where John & Jason talk the Microsoft Power BI March 2025 Feature Summary including Desktop start-up performance improvements, Copilot improvements, c…
00:42:34 |
Tue 15 Apr 2025
Episode 290 - FabCon news recap
This is episode 290 recorded on April 8th, 2025 where John & Jason talk the news coming out of the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference in Las Vegas.
00:38:11 |
Fri 11 Apr 2025
Episode 289 - Microsoft Fabric February 2025 Feature Summary
This is episode 289 recorded on March 21th, 2025 where John & Jason talk the Microsoft Fabric February 2025 Feature Summary including API updates, Monitoring changes, Security updates, and AI Skill e…
00:41:41 |
Sun 30 Mar 2025
Episode 288 - Power BI February 2025 Feature Summary
This is episode 288 recorded on March 19th, 2025 where John & Jason talk the Microsoft Fabric February 2025 Feature Summary, specifically the Power BI section, including a new baseline version of Pow…
00:30:39 |
Mon 24 Mar 2025
Episode 287 - Microsoft Fabric January 2025 Feature Summary
This is episode 287 recorded on March 13th, 2025 where John & Jason talk the Microsoft Fabric January 2025 Feature Summary including Python Notebooks in preview, Lineage enhancements to spark noteboo…
00:35:31 |
Thu 20 Mar 2025
Episode 286 - Power BI January 2025 Feature Summary
This is episode 286 recorded on March 12th, 2025 where John & Jason talk the Microsoft Fabric January 2025 Feature Summary, specifically the Power BI section, including Storytelling updates for the P…
00:29:07 |
Tue 18 Mar 2025
Episode 285 - A conversation about Microsoft Fabric at ESPC
This is episode 285 recorded live in Stockholm on December 3rd, 2024 where John & Jason talk about the expansion of the Microsoft Fabric ecosystem announced at Microsoft Ignite and interesting conver…
00:23:25 |
Thu 12 Dec 2024
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