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 24 - November's Power BI Desktop news & more
This is episode 24 recorded on November 17th, 2017… where John & Jason talk to about the latest updates to Power BI Desktop, some new custom visuals, and some community contribution picks.
For show …
00:32:25 |
Fri 24 Nov 2017
Episode 23 - Interview with Dave Feldman
This is episode 23 recorded on November 7th, 2017… where John & Jason talk to about the new single-sign on methods for the Power BI service and an interview with Dave Feldman, Microsoft MVP from Shir…
00:34:20 |
Tue 14 Nov 2017
Episode 22 - Power BI Report Server release news
This is episode 22 recorded on November 2nd, 2017… where John & Jason talk to about the brand new release of Power BI Report Server, PowerApp visuals, & Power BI Licensing.
For show notes please vis…
00:26:57 |
Tue 07 Nov 2017
Episode 21 - Ignite interview with Miguel Llopis
This is episode 21 recorded at Microsoft Ignite on September 26th, 2017… where John & Jason talk to Miguel Llopis, Microsoft Program Manager responsible for Power Query project.
For show notes pleas…
00:37:05 |
Tue 31 Oct 2017
Episode 20 - Ignite recap and Office 365 Reporting with the tyGraph Team
This is episode 20 recorded on October 3rd, 2017… where John & Jason talk to Ed Senez & Dean Swann from TyGraph to debrief on Microsoft Ignite from a Business Intelligence perspective.
For show note…
00:37:12 |
Tue 24 Oct 2017
Episode 19 - Dummy proofing for Executives
This is episode 19 recorded on October 12th, 2017… where John & Jason talk to about the news including a new version & way of deploying Power BI Desktop and what's interesting in the release of SQL S…
00:32:45 |
Mon 16 Oct 2017
Episode 18 - Ignite interview with Anne Michels & Shilpi Sinha
This is episode 18 recorded at Microsoft Ignite on September 27th, 2017… where John & Jason talk to Anne Michels & Shilpi Sinha from the Office 365 Product Team about Reporting in Office 365.
For sh…
00:44:21 |
Sat 07 Oct 2017
Episode 17 - Ignite interview with Christopher Finlan
Description: This is episode 17 recorded live from Microsoft Ignite on September 26th, 2017… where John & Jason talk to Christopher Finlan, Microsoft's SQL Server Reporting Services Program Manager, …
00:29:42 |
Thu 05 Oct 2017
Episode 16 - Interview with Sirui Sun
This is episode 16 recorded on September 26th, 2017 at the Microsoft Podcasting Center where John & Jason talk to Program Manager Sirui Sun about everything Power BI.
For show notes please visit ht…
00:25:59 |
Tue 03 Oct 2017
Episode 15 - Ignite 2017 Bonus Episode
This is episode 15 recorded on September 13th, 2017 where John & Jason talk about the September 2017 updates to Power BI Desktop, interview Treb Gatte, and share our session picks for Ignite 2017.
F…
00:48:07 |
Fri 22 Sep 2017
Episode 14 - Surveying the Scene
This is episode 14 recorded on September 8th, 2017 where John & Jason talk about Power BI Drill through Reports, Timeline Storyteller Visual, Microsoft Forms with Microsoft Flow and Power BI, and Mic…
00:27:49 |
Tue 19 Sep 2017
BIFocal Episode 13 - Back On Premises
This is episode 13 recorded on August 31st, 2017 where John & Jason talk about Power BI Embedded, Hurricane Harvey, and the new Power BI Report Server.
For show notes please visit http://bifocal.sho…
00:28:45 |
Tue 12 Sep 2017
BIFocal Episode 12 - Time after time
This is episode 12 recorded on August 23rd, 2017 where John & Jason talk about the new SharePoint Communication Sites, OneDrive's new sharing functionality, when times are not times, and the differen…
00:30:58 |
Wed 06 Sep 2017
BIFocal Episode 11 - Garden full of news
This is episode 11 recorded on August 18th, 2017 where John & Jason talk about the News in Power BI including Desktop update, a new version of the onPrem Data Gateway & the Power BI Research panel.
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00:27:03 |
Tue 29 Aug 2017
BIFocal Episode 10 - May I see your license sir?
This is episode 10 recorded on August 17th, 2017 where we talk about the new Power BI licensing model & Microsoft Ignite.
For show notes please visit http://bifocal.show/2017/08/18/episode-10-may-i…
00:25:40 |
Tue 22 Aug 2017
BIFocal Episode 9 - Dog Days
In this episode, John and Jason look talk about about SQL Server 2017 RC2, PowerApps, and updates to the Power BI service. Recorded August 3rd, 2017
00:28:57 |
Wed 16 Aug 2017
BIFocal Episode 8 - Back Into It
In this episode, John and Jason look specifically the July 2017 updates to Power BI in the Desktop, the service, and to the On-Premises Data Gateway. Additionally, we talk about the fact that in Sept…
00:25:35 |
Mon 31 Jul 2017
BIFocal Episode 7 - Live from Johannesburg
After a long hiatus, Jason and John are back with the podcast! The format has changed, and now it’s audio-only (for the moment at least) and we’re trying to keep it down to a consumable 30 minutes.
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00:29:15 |
Mon 31 Jul 2017
BIFocal Episode 6 - Select * From Reports
Power BI has been getting a lot of attention recently, but it represents only the cloud platform of Microsoft’s BI strategy. As clearly announced last fall, the other main platform, deployed on premi…
00:52:46 |
Sat 01 Jul 2017
BIFocal Episode 5 - The Data Model
In this episode, we were fortunate enough to have Kasper De Jonge as our guest. Kasper is Senior Program Manager on the Analysis Services team, and has been with the tabular data model since its ince…
01:00:11 |
Sat 01 Jul 2017
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