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
- 305
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
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
Episode 204 - Power BI News Update
This is episode 204 recorded on September 3rd, 2021 where John & Jason catch up on the August 2021 news such as the new Premium Metrics App, the new preview of Automatic Aggregations, and refresh his…
00:30:13 |
Thu 09 Sep 2021
Episode 203 - Power BI August 2021 Feature Summary
This is episode 203 recorded on August 27th, 2021 where John & Jason go over the August 2021 Power BI updates, including Default sensitivity label policy in Power BI desktop, Leverage automatic aggre…
00:30:19 |
Thu 02 Sep 2021
Episode 202 - Power BI News update
This is episode 202 recorded on August 6th, 2021 where John & Jason review some Power BI news from the past few weeks such as Connected PivotTable refresh in Excel for the web is now 100% available t…
00:28:19 |
Wed 11 Aug 2021
Episode 201 - Power BI July 2021 Feature Summary
This is episode 201 recorded on July 23rd, 2021 where John & Jason go over the July 2021 Power BI updates, including Streaming Dataflows and lots of cool stuff going GA.
For show notes please visit…
00:31:43 |
Fri 06 Aug 2021
Episode 200 - Live from SPFest Chicago 2021
This is episode 200 recorded on July 30th, 2021 where John & Jason talk to Mike Fitzmaurice, Liz Sundet, and Jay Leask on the floor of the SPFest Chicago 2021 conference about being back to live even…
00:31:25 |
Mon 02 Aug 2021
Episode 199 - Microsoft Power Platform_ 2021 release wave 2 plan
This is episode 199 recorded on July 16th, 2021 where John & Jason talk to the Microsoft Power Platform: 2021 release wave 2 plan & some other bits and bobs.
For show notes please visit www.bifocal.…
00:44:36 |
Tue 20 Jul 2021
Episode 198 - Interview with Treb Gatte
This is episode 198 recorded on June 28th, 2021 where John & Jason talk to Treb Gatte, CEO of Marquee Insights & Data Platform MVP, about the new Power BI Goals feature & his experiences helping comp…
00:34:47 |
Wed 07 Jul 2021
Episode 197 - Power BI June 2021 Feature Summary
This is episode 197 recorded on June 30th, 2021 where John & Jason go over the June Power BI updates, including the new Paginated report visual, Improvements to Power BI dynamic M parameters, new dat…
00:29:26 |
Thu 01 Jul 2021
Episode 196 - June News Round-up
This is episode 196 recorded on June 18th, 2021 where John & Jason recap the recent Power BI news like updates to the Power Platform Admin Center, Dataflow notifications to multiple people, Power BI …
00:30:31 |
Tue 22 Jun 2021
Episode 195 - Quickly create reports from SharePoint lists
This is episode 195 recorded on June 11th, 2021 where John & Jason share their thoughts on the newly released feature in SharePoint Online from the Power BI team called "Quickly create reports from S…
00:30:07 |
Tue 15 Jun 2021
Episode 194 - Interview with Andrew Brust
This is episode 194 recorded on June 4th, 2021 where John & Jason about to Andrew Brust, Microsoft MVP & Regional Director, ZDNet contributor and much more, the Microsoft data eco-system including Az…
00:33:16 |
Thu 10 Jun 2021
Episode 193 - Interview with Laura Graham-Brown
This is episode 193 recorded on May 21st, 2021 where John & Jason about to Laura Graham-Brown, UK based BizApps MVP & trainer extraordinaire, about SharePoint, Power Platform, and the Microsoft Commu…
00:35:31 |
Thu 03 Jun 2021
Episode 192 - Power BI May 2021 Feature Summary
This is episode 192 recorded on May 14th, 2021 where John & Jason about the Power BI May 2021 Feature Summary including the Modern visual tooltips, Quickly create reports from SharePoint lists, and S…
00:40:07 |
Wed 19 May 2021
Episode 191 - Interview with Miguel Llopis
This is episode 191 recorded on May 7th, 2021 where John & Jason interview Miguel Llopis, Principal Program Manager for Power Query and Dataflows about the seismic shifts in the Power Query world, th…
00:36:31 |
Thu 13 May 2021
Episode 190 - Interview with Arun Ulag
This is episode 190 recorded on May 5th, 2021 where John & Jason interview Arun Ulag, General Manager of Power BI Engineering at Microsoft, about all things Power BI from Microsoft Business Applicati…
00:38:12 |
Fri 07 May 2021
Episode 189 - Power BI April 2021 Feature Summary
This is episode 18 recorded on April 21st, 2021 where John & Jason talk about the Power BI April 2021 Feature Summary including Power Automate for Power BI, New & Improved Shapes, Easy Report Sharing…
00:35:43 |
Tue 27 Apr 2021
Episode 188 - Interview with Heather Newman
This is episode 188 recorded on April 16th, 2021 where John & Jason to Heather Newman, Principle Program Manager at Microsoft for Dynamics 365 & Power Platform Community Success, about her new role a…
00:56:02 |
Tue 20 Apr 2021
Episode 187 - Interview with Stephanie Bruno
This is episode 187 recorded on April 13th, 2021 where John & Jason to Stephanie Bruno, Associate Director of Informatics at Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation & Data Platform MVP, about the …
00:42:09 |
Fri 16 Apr 2021
Episode 186 - Community News
This is episode 186 recorded on April 5th, 2021 where John & Jason about the news from around the Power BI & Collaboration community, reflecting on MVP Summit, as well as a discussion on Premium per …
00:25:37 |
Tue 06 Apr 2021
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