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 185 - Power BI News Updates
This is episode 185 recorded on March 26th, 2021 where John & Jason about the news from March including VNet Connectivity for PBI Datasets, ODBC support available for Paginated Reports in public prev…
00:34:16 |
Tue 30 Mar 2021
Episode 184 - Power BI March 2021 Feature Summary
This is episode 184 recorded on March 24th, 2021 where John & Jason about the Power BI March 2021 Feature Summary including the Advanced Data Selection in Azure Maps Visual, External Tools integratio…
00:37:28 |
Fri 26 Mar 2021
Episode 183 - Whither Power Pivot
This is episode 183 recorded on March 12th, 2021 where John & Jason about John's click bait blog post where he talks about the validity of continuing to use Power Pivot in Excel. Jason takes the coun…
00:32:15 |
Mon 15 Mar 2021
Episode 182 - Premium per User with Chris Finlan
This is episode 182 recorded on March 4, 2021 where John & Jason talk to Microsoft Product Manager Chris Finlan about recent announcements around the Premium per user license, how it came about, and …
00:36:34 |
Tue 09 Mar 2021
Episode 181 - Power BI February 2021 Feature Summary
This is episode 181 recorded on February 26th, 2021 where John & Jason talk about the Power BI February 2021 Feature Summary including the DirectQuery for PBI datasets and Azure Analysis Services Upd…
00:35:42 |
Mon 01 Mar 2021
Episode 180 - Interview with Melissa Coates
This is episode 180 recorded on February 19th, 2021 where John & Jason talk with Melissa Coates, Data Platform MVP & the owner of Coates Data Strategies, about all things Power BI Governance.
For sh…
00:40:35 |
Tue 23 Feb 2021
Episode 179 - Best Practices Analyzer in Tabular Editor
This is episode 179 recorded on February 5th, 2021 where John & Jason deep dive on the Best Practices Analyzer in Tabular Editor, an external tool for Power BI Desktop.
For show notes please visit …
00:26:57 |
Sun 14 Feb 2021
178 - Power BI 2021 Release Wave 1 Roadmap review
This is episode 178 recorded on February 5th, 2021 where John & Jason review the recently published Power BI 2021 release wave 1 roadmap.
For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
00:40:00 |
Mon 08 Feb 2021
Episode 177 - Tales From the Real World
This is episode 177 recorded on January 22nd, 2021 where John & Jason talk about some of their experiences at work with Power BI lately.
For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
00:30:58 |
Mon 25 Jan 2021
Episode 176 - Power BI News in 2021
This is episode 176 recorded on January 8th, 2021 where John & Jason talk about Report Creation in the Power BI Service, the preview of Datasets Hub, and General Availability of the XMLA Read/Write e…
00:32:05 |
Tue 12 Jan 2021
Episode 175 - Interview with Christian Wade
This is episode 175 recorded on December 15th, 2020 where John & Jason talk with Christian Wade about what's been happening around the enterprise capabilities for Power BI, how exciting working in th…
00:39:34 |
Tue 05 Jan 2021
Episode 174 - Power BI 2020 Hindsight
This is episode 174 recorded on December 21st, 2020 where John & Jason review the changes with Power BI over the past year, check out how they did on last year's predictions, and make some new predic…
00:44:08 |
Wed 30 Dec 2020
Episode 173 - Power BI December 2020 Feature Summary
This is episode 173 recorded on December 18th, 2020 where John & Jason talk about the Power BI December 2020 Feature Summary including the DirectQuery for Power BI datasets and Azure Analysis Service…
00:36:25 |
Wed 23 Dec 2020
Episode 172 - Take 2- Interview with Tessa Hurr & Jeroen ter Heerdt
This is episode 172 recorded on December 14th, 2020 where John & Jason talk with Tessa & Jereon, from the Power BI Product Team, about some of the announcement in this month's release of Power BI Des…
00:32:04 |
Wed 16 Dec 2020
Episode 171 - Synapse & Purview announcements
This is episode 171 recorded on December 4th, 2020 where John & Jason talk about Azure Synapse Analytics reaching general availability and the announcement of Azure Purview in Public Preview.
For sh…
00:30:55 |
Mon 07 Dec 2020
Episode 170 - Deeper Dive into recent Power BI news
This is episode 170 recorded on November 13th, 2020 where John & Jason talk about Anomaly Detection & the Visual Data Prep public previews, and what’s new in Power Query & Dataflows.
For show notes …
00:23:31 |
Sun 29 Nov 2020
Episode 169 - Power BI November 2020 Feature Summary
This is episode 169 recorded on November 13th, 2020 where John & Jason talk about the Power BI November 2020 Feature Summary including the New Field List & Model view previews, the Visual Zoom Slicer…
00:29:29 |
Sun 22 Nov 2020
Episode 168 - Premium per User is here! Premium per User is here (in preview)!
This is episode 168 recorded on November 13, 2020 where John & Jason talk about the public availability of the new Power BI premium per user license, as well as the preview on the Gen 2 Premium Archi…
00:31:05 |
Mon 16 Nov 2020
Episode 167 - What election_ Let's talk about Power BI News
This is episode 167 recorded on November 6, 2020 where John & Jason talk about the election… and then Power BI News. We promise we really do. Topics like Updates to Power BI Publish to web for better…
00:34:23 |
Mon 09 Nov 2020
Episode 166 - Power BI October 2020 Feature Summary - Part 2
This is episode 166 recorded on October 30, 2020 where John & Jason start talking about the October 2020 Power BI update, again, including updates to the mobile experience, a new HTML visual, major c…
00:34:58 |
Sun 01 Nov 2020
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