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 224 - Power BI April 2022 Feature Summary
This is episode 224 recorded live at 365EduCon in Seattle on May 13th, 2022 where John & Jason go over the April 2022 Power BI updates and an update on the state of BIFocal.show & it's hosts.
For sh…
00:27:48 |
Mon 16 May 2022
Episode 223 - Interview with Laura Rogers
This is episode 223 recorded on April 6th, 2022 where John & Jason talk to Laura Rogers, Microsoft MVP and CEO of IWMentor.com, about the role of training in the information worker space, her approac…
00:24:30 |
Tue 12 Apr 2022
Episode 222 - Power BI March 2022 Feature Summary
This is episode 222 recorded on March 22nd, 2022 where John & Jason go over the March 2022 Power BI updates including Error Bars, Azure Maps visual getting to parity with Bing Maps visual, and Quick…
00:33:22 |
Wed 23 Mar 2022
Episode 221 - Deep dive on Azure Data Explorer
This is episode 221 recorded on March 10th, 2022 where John & Jason talk about the state of the world & do a deep dive on the work John has been doing with Azure Data Explorer, also known as Kusto.
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00:27:28 |
Tue 15 Mar 2022
Episode 220 - Power BI February 2022 Feature Summary
This is episode 220 recorded on February 24th, 2022 where John & Jason go over the February 2022 Power BI updates including new mobile formatting options, Dynamic M Query Parameters now supports SQL …
00:34:50 |
Wed 02 Mar 2022
Episode 219 - Exploring the Power BI Community with Kelly Kaye
This is episode 219 recorded on February 18th, 2022 where John & Jason talk to Kelly Kaye, Community Program Manager for Power BI about a whole host of community related topics including diversity, o…
00:30:52 |
Fri 25 Feb 2022
Episode 218 - Power BI 2022 release wave 1 plan
This is episode 218 recorded on January 28th, 2022 where John & Jason review the Microsoft Power BI 2022 release wave 1 plan that covers the roadmap from April to September of 2022.
For show notes …
00:49:42 |
Tue 01 Feb 2022
Episode 217 - Power BI 2021 Year in Review
This is episode 217 recorded on December 23rd, 2021 where John & Jason do a year in review for all things Power BI in 2021, review their wins & losses with their 2021 predictions, and prognosticate a…
00:59:31 |
Wed 05 Jan 2022
Episode 216 - Power BI December 2021 Feature Summary
This is episode 216 recorded on December 22nd, 2021 where John & Jason go over the December 2021 Power BI updates including Sparklines in Table & Matrix visuals, New Format Pane updates, Allow sharin…
00:30:57 |
Tue 28 Dec 2021
Episode 215 - Firing on all Synapses with Kim Manis
This is episode 215 recorded on December 17th, 2021 where John & Jason talk to Kim Manis, Director of Product for Azure Synapse. Kim fills us in on what Synapses is, exactly, why it should matter to …
00:32:35 |
Mon 20 Dec 2021
Episode 214 - Power BI News from Las Vegas
This is episode 214 recorded on December 7th, 2021 where John & Jason discuss the news in the Power BI space such as Power BI Streaming Dataflows November Update, Capacity settings for datasets are n…
00:16:10 |
Sat 18 Dec 2021
Episode 213 - Power BI November 2021 Feature Summary - part 2
This is episode 213, part 2 of 2, recorded on November 16th, 2021 where John & Jason go over the November 2021 Power BI updates including the new connectors for Azure Synapse Analytics and Google She…
00:26:57 |
Wed 24 Nov 2021
Episode 212 - Power BI November 2021 Feature Summary - part 1
This is episode 212 recorded on November 16th, 2021 where John & Jason go over the November 2021 Power BI updates including the New Format Pane, Page & Bookmark Navigators, Sort Legend, and the new V…
00:24:58 |
Wed 17 Nov 2021
Episode 211 - Interview with Shane Young
This is episode 211 recorded on November 10th, 2021 where John & Jason talk Shane Young, Principal Consultant at PowerApps911, Power Apps MVP, and YouTube Sensation, about Microsoft Power Apps, Micro…
00:39:30 |
Fri 12 Nov 2021
Episode 210 - Power BI News Update 210 - Microsoft Ignite Fall 2021 News
This is episode 210 recorded on November 3rd, 2021 where John & Jason talk about the latest news announced at and around Microsoft Ignite Fall 2021 including Azure Chaos Studio, Power BI Teams App go…
00:36:34 |
Sat 06 Nov 2021
Episode 209 - Real chat about Microsoft Ignite Fall 2021
This is episode 209 recorded on October 25th, 2021 where John & Jason share their views on the upcoming Microsoft Ignite 2021 Conference and the state of remote conferences in General.
For show note…
00:29:10 |
Wed 27 Oct 2021
Episode 208 - Power BI October 2021 Feature Summary
This is episode 208 recorded on October 14th, 2021 where John & Jason go over the October 2021 Power BI updates including Heat map layer – Azure Maps Visual, improvements to Metamodels, ODBC support…
00:36:03 |
Tue 19 Oct 2021
Power BI News Update 207 - Power BI News Update
This is episode 207 recorded on October 2nd, 2021 where John & Jason catch up on the September 2021 news such as a Preview Update to the Export Power BI report to file API, Power BI Embedded Analytic…
00:27:47 |
Tue 05 Oct 2021
Episode 206 - Power BI September 2021 Feature Summary
This is episode 206 recorded on September 23rd, 2021 where John & Jason go over the September 2021 Power BI updates including New formatting options for buttons, Insights is now in preview, Power BI…
00:42:13 |
Tue 28 Sep 2021
Episode 205 - Interview with Patrick LeBlanc
This is episode 205 recorded on September 17th, 2021 where John & Jason talk to Patrick LeBlanc, one of those Guy in a Cube guys and the Chief Technical Evangelist for Power BI at Microsoft, about hi…
00:35:21 |
Wed 22 Sep 2021
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