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 84 - Databricks & External Dataflows
This is episode 84 recorded on January 21, 2019 where John & Jason talk about Azure big data technologies, the Ignite world tour, and Power BI external dataflows.
For show notes please visit www.bif…
00:27:03 |
Sat 02 Feb 2019
Episode 83 - The death of inappropriate anonymous embedding
This is episode 83 recorded on January 11th, 2019 where John & Jason talk Workspace Management in the Admin portal & the death of inappropriate anonymous embedding.
For show notes please visit www.b…
00:22:11 |
Fri 18 Jan 2019
Episode 82 - 2018 Power BI Wrap Up
This is episode 82 recorded on December 18th, 2018 where John & Jason talk about the highlights of 2018 in the Power BI space & make some predictions for 2019.
For show notes please visit www.bifoca…
00:44:47 |
Tue 01 Jan 2019
Episode 81 - Interview with Andrew Connell
This is episode 81 recorded live at SharePointFest Chicago on December 6th, 2018 where Jason talks Andrew Connell, co-host of the Microsoft Cloud Show and Instructor & Entrepreneur at Voitanos.io, ab…
00:43:06 |
Tue 25 Dec 2018
Episode 80 - Decemeber 2018 Power BI Desktop Update
This is episode 80 recorded on December 17th, 2018 where John & Jason talk about last update to Power BI Desktop in 2018 including features like Smart guides for aligning objects on a page & the prev…
00:26:20 |
Tue 18 Dec 2018
Episode 79 - Interview with Jen Stirrup
This is episode 79 recorded on November 28th, 2018 where John interviews Jen Stirrup, Microsoft Data Platform MVP and Regional director about the state of Business Intelligence and its relationship t…
00:22:38 |
Sat 15 Dec 2018
Episode 78 - Interview with the SPFest BI Speakers
This is episode 78 recorded on December 5th, 2018 live from SPFest Chicago where Jason talks with the other speakers on the BI track Treb Gatte, Liz Sundet, and Daniel Glenn about their perspectives …
00:37:43 |
Fri 07 Dec 2018
Episode 77 - Interview with Arun Ulag
This is episode 77 recorded on November 21st, 2018 where John & Jason talk about some new blogs posts from John and interview Arun Ulag, General Manager of Power BI Engineering at Microsoft, about al…
00:30:45 |
Tue 27 Nov 2018
Episode 76 - Power BI Desktop's Biggest Update
This is episode 76 recorded on November 21st, 2018 where John & Jason talk about all the new stuff in the latest Power BI Desktop like the updated filtering experience & the new modeling view now in …
00:29:02 |
Thu 22 Nov 2018
Episode 75 - PASS Summit News & Dataflows
This is episode 75 recorded on November 9th, 2018 where John & Jason talk about the news coming out of PASS Summit and break down the introduction of Dataflows.
For show notes please visit www.bifoc…
00:29:42 |
Tue 13 Nov 2018
Interview with Amir Netz
This is episode 74 recorded on September 24th, 2018 where John & Jason interview Amir Netz, Technical Fellow and Chief Architect of Microsoft BI offerings at Microsoft, about all things Power BI.
F…
00:50:29 |
Wed 07 Nov 2018
Episode 73 - Interview with Chris Finlan
This is episode 73 recorded on October 22nd, 2018 where John & Jason talk to Chris Finlan, Senior Program Manager for Power BI at Microsoft, about the Power BI Report Server, Paginated Report in the …
00:40:00 |
Tue 30 Oct 2018
Episode 72 - October Desktop Update
This is episode 72 recorded on October 19th, 2018 where John & Jason talk to about the October release of Power BI Desktop, and a little about publish to web reports.
For show notes please visit www…
00:33:41 |
Tue 23 Oct 2018
Episode 71 - Interview with Amanda Cofsky
This is episode 71 recorded on September 26th, 2018 where John & Jason talk about some new & exciting stuff they are each working on & interview Amanda Cofsky, Program Manager for Power BI, at Micros…
00:38:57 |
Thu 18 Oct 2018
Episode 70 - Interview with Kent Weare
This is episode 70 recorded on July 24th, 2018 where John talks to Kent Weare, Principal Program Manager for Microsoft Flow, at the Business Application Summit about Microsoft Flow & the announcement…
00:25:46 |
Tue 09 Oct 2018
Episode 69 - Interview with Sundeep Meda
This is episode 69 recorded on September 26th, 2018 where John & Jason talk to Sundeep Meda, Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft, about RDL in the Cloud, field listener questions, the Power BI webp…
00:28:28 |
Fri 05 Oct 2018
Episode 68 - Live from Ignite with Adam Saxton
This is episode 68 recorded on September 26th, 2018 where John & Jason talk to Adam Saxton, Microsoft's "Guy in a Cube", live at Microsoft Ignite 2018 about the new XMLA end points, Certified Data Se…
00:22:30 |
Thu 04 Oct 2018
Episode 67 - Interview with Josh Caplan
This is episode 67 recorded on September 25th, 2018 where John & Jason talk to Josh Caplan, Sr. Program Manager for Power BI, live at Microsoft Ignite 2018 about Power BI Premium, the new XMLA end po…
00:23:54 |
Wed 03 Oct 2018
Episode 66 - Power BI Desktop Update & Ignite Session picks
This is episode 66 recorded on September 14th, 2018 where John & Jason talk to about the September release of Power BI Desktop and make picks for Microsoft Ignite 2018.
For show notes please visit w…
00:32:02 |
Tue 18 Sep 2018
Episode 65 - Meetup with Reza Rad
This is episode 65 recorded on September 11th, 2018 where John & Jason talk to Microsoft MVP and Regional Director Reza Rad about Reza's Power BI background, and our joint meetup at Microsoft Ignite.…
00:24:08 |
Thu 13 Sep 2018
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