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 44 - Power BI Desktop, Gateway, & Developer updates
This is episode 44 recorded on April 9th 2018… where John & Jason talk about the Developer Update & the Gateway Update for March and the Power BI Desktop update for April.
For show notes please visi…
00:33:01 |
Tue 10 Apr 2018
Episode 43 - Chat about the Power BI Community with Chuck Sterling
This is episode 43 recorded on March 8th 2018… where John & Jason talk to Charles Sterling who runs the MVP Program for the PowerApps, Flow, and Power BI about his experience working at Microsoft, hi…
00:20:26 |
Thu 05 Apr 2018
Episode 42 - All about Power BI Embedded
This is episode 42 recorded on March 23rd 2018… where John & Jason talk to Megan Assarrane, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Microsoft for Power BI Embedded, to dispel some misunderstandings about…
00:28:43 |
Tue 27 Mar 2018
Episode 41 - The New Power BI Report Server is here!
This is episode 41 recorded on March 15th 2018… where John & Jason talk to Riccardo Muti, Principal Group Program Manager at Microsoft for Power BI and SQL Server Reporting Services, about the latest…
00:38:47 |
Mon 19 Mar 2018
Episode 40 - Power BI News & Updates
This is episode 40 recorded on March 15th 2018… where John & Jason talk about the latest Power BI news from the week & tease next week's very special episode.
For show notes please visit www.bifoca…
00:18:16 |
Thu 15 Mar 2018
Episode 39 - Power BI Desktop & External Sharing Update
This is episode 39 recorded on March 8th 2018… from Microsoft Campus in Redmond at the Global MVP Summit where John & Jason talk about the latest Power BI Desktop Update & explain the new ability to …
00:21:44 |
Tue 13 Mar 2018
Episode 38 - Come on get App-y
This is episode 38 recorded on February 27th 2018… where John & Jason talk about the Power BI App story & the new functionality that the Power BI team released last week for updating Apps.
For show…
00:30:23 |
Thu 01 Mar 2018
Episode 37 - Power BI Service Feature Update
This is episode 37 recorded on February 20th 2018… where John & Jason talk about the January Feature Update for the Power BI Service and Mobile that released in February.
For show notes please visi…
00:26:39 |
Thu 22 Feb 2018
Episode 36 - February Power BI Desktop Update
This is episode 36 recorded on February 12th 2018… where Jason geeks out with guest host Dave Feldman about the latest Power BI Desktop Update, restoring SQL Azure Databases, and some other randomnes…
00:39:27 |
Wed 14 Feb 2018
Episode 35 - Upgrading SQL Server Reporting Services
This is episode 35 recorded on January 23rd 2018… where John & Jason discuss SQL Server Reporting Services in the overall Microsoft BI stack & the upgrade path to the latest iteration, including the …
00:21:15 |
Tue 06 Feb 2018
Episode 34 - The role of SharePoint in BI
This is episode 34 recorded on January 23rd 2018… where John interviews Chris McNulty from Microsoft about the role of SharePoint in Business Intelligence and Chris gloats about his Patriots winning …
00:32:46 |
Tue 30 Jan 2018
Episode 33 - Beginning a Power BI journey with Lori Gowin
This is episode 33 recorded on January 18th 2018… where John & Jason to Lori Gowin about her new role at Microsoft & her journey into Power BI.
For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
00:30:35 |
Tue 23 Jan 2018
Episode 32 - Size Matters
This is episode 32 recorded on January 11th 2018… where John & Jason talk about scaling Power BI, it's limits, and how to overcome them.
For show notes please visit https://www.bifocal.show
00:30:23 |
Tue 16 Jan 2018
Episode 31 - January Power BI Desktop Update News
This is episode 31 recorded on January 9th 2018… where John & Jason talk about the January features updates to Power BI Desktop, some things they noticed in the Desktop client, and some User Voice su…
00:29:01 |
Thu 11 Jan 2018
Episode 30 - New Years News
This is episode 30 recorded in January 1st 2018… where John & Jason talk about the news from the past few weeks in Power BI, Office 365, and Azure.
00:30:08 |
Wed 03 Jan 2018
Episode 29 - 2018 Predictions
This is episode 29 recorded in December 2017… where John & Jason talk to community members about their 2018 predictions & make a few themselves.
For show notes please visit http://www.bifocal.show
00:25:45 |
Tue 26 Dec 2017
Episode 28 - SQL Server news & December's Power BI Desktop updates
This is episode 28 recorded on December 14th, 2017… where John & Jason talk about the new SQL Server Management Studio 17.4, a new open source SQL Server CLI, a change to Power BI Premium, and the De…
00:35:39 |
Wed 20 Dec 2017
Episode 27 - Interview with Paul Schaeflein
This is episode 27 recorded on December 6th, 2017 from SharePointFest Chicago… where John & Jason talk to Paul Schaeflein about helping people transform applications using Microsoft Teams, authentica…
00:34:28 |
Tue 12 Dec 2017
Episode 26 - OnPrem Data Gateway & Power BI Developer news
This is episode 26 recorded on December 6th, 2017 from SharePointFest Chicago… where John & Jason talk about the latest updates to the OnPrem Data Gateway, the technical reference implementation for …
00:28:54 |
Fri 08 Dec 2017
Episode 25 – Guests for Thanksgiving
This is episode 25 recorded on November 24th, 2017… Black Friday… or as we call it, Analytics Friday… where John & Jason talk about Power BI Guest Access using Azure B2B and some tips, tricks & commu…
00:25:07 |
Wed 29 Nov 2017
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