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 165 - Power BI October 2020 Feature Summary - Part 1
This is episode 165 recorded on October 23, 2020 where John & Jason start talking about the October 2020 Power BI update - things like dynamic M queries, a new SharePoint list connectors but don’t …
00:30:07 |
Mon 26 Oct 2020
Episode 164 - A Fall Cornucopia!
This is episode 164 recorded on October 16, 2020 where John & Jason talk about some recent news, the new Power BI app for Teams, alternative productivity tools, and Jason's blog post series on workin…
00:32:33 |
Tue 20 Oct 2020
Episode 163 - Blame Excel!
This is episode 163 recorded on October 09, 2020 where John & Jason talk about how not to use Excel properly (listen up UK government..) and the role of Excel in Power BI today and in the future.
Fo…
00:36:24 |
Sun 11 Oct 2020
Episode 162 - Power BI September 2020 Feature Summary
This is episode 162 recorded on October 2, 2020 where John & Jason talk about a few changes to the monthly update announcements and go through the announcement for September.
For show notes please …
00:33:28 |
Mon 05 Oct 2020
Episode 161 - Interview with Chris Finlan
This is episode 161 recorded on September 25th, 2020 where John & Jason talk with Chris Finlan, Principal Program Manager for Power BI at Microsoft, about the news from Microsoft Ignite including the…
00:45:47 |
Sun 27 Sep 2020
Episode 160 - Microsoft Ignite Recap with those Guy in a Cube guys
This is episode 160 recorded on September 22th, 2020 where John & Jason recap the Power BI News from Microsoft Ignite with Patrick Leblanc & Adam Saxton, from Microsoft, aka Guy in a Cube with highli…
00:50:02 |
Fri 25 Sep 2020
Episode 159 - Power BI News & Microsoft Ignite
This is episode 159 recorded on September 11th, 2020 where John & Jason catch up on the Power BI News from the past few weeks and share insights about Microsoft Ignite.
For show notes please visit w…
00:26:03 |
Sun 13 Sep 2020
Episode 158 - Catching up on the Power BI News
This is episode 158 recorded on August 28th, 2020 where John & Jason catch up on the Power BI News from the past few weeks including re-imagined headers and navigation in the Power BI Mobile apps, Po…
00:34:16 |
Mon 31 Aug 2020
Episode 157 - Interview with Mike Carlo & Seth Bauer
This is episode 157 recorded on August 21st, 2020 where John & Jason talk to Microsoft MVPs Mike Carlo & Seth Bauer, from PowerBI.tips, about their new tool Business Ops and all of the great stuff th…
00:46:06 |
Mon 24 Aug 2020
Episode 156 - August 2020 Power BI Desktop Update
This is episode 156 recorded on August 14th, 2020 where John & Jason talk about the August 2020 Power BI Desktop Update including dynamic formatting support to more visuals, Direct Query support for …
00:34:25 |
Sun 16 Aug 2020
Episode 155 - News & other updates
This is episode 155, our 3rd anniversary episode, recorded on August 7th, 2020 where John & Jason talk about updates to Microsoft Teams, the new Microsoft Ignite dates, some announcements about Powe…
00:30:36 |
Mon 10 Aug 2020
Episode 154 - July 2020 Power BI Desktop Update
This is episode 154 recorded on July 22nd, 2020 where John & Jason talk about the July 2020 Power BI Desktop Update including Gradient Legend, Azure Maps Visuals, and the fact that Power BI Desktop n…
00:41:36 |
Tue 28 Jul 2020
Episode 153 - 2020 Release Wave 2 Plan for the Power BI Service review
This is episode 153 recorded on July 9th, 2020 where John & Jason talk about the newly released Microsoft Power Platform: 2020 release wave 2 plan for Power BI Mobile & the Power BI Service.
For sho…
00:34:59 |
Fri 17 Jul 2020
Episode 152 - 2020 Release Wave 2 Plan for the Power BI Desktop review
This is episode 152 recorded on July 9th, 2020 where John & Jason talk about the newly released Microsoft Power Platform: 2020 release wave 2 plan for Power BI Desktop.
For show notes please visit w…
00:32:05 |
Fri 10 Jul 2020
Episode 151 - Visuals, Apps, Licensing & Picks
This is episode 151 recorded on June 25, 2020 where John & Jason talk about changes to some formerly useful custom visuals, Power BI Report Server licensing change, and a conversation about Apps.
F…
00:30:13 |
Sat 27 Jun 2020
Episode 150 - June 2020 Power BI Desktop Update
This is episode 150, our sesquicentennial episode, recorded on June 17, 2020 where John & Jason talk about the June 2020 Power BI Desktop Update including Enhancements to mobile layout authoring, cha…
00:34:57 |
Sat 20 Jun 2020
Episode 149 - Creating Data Driven Subscriptions for Power BI Reports
This is episode 149 recorded on June 10, 2020 where John & Jason discuss John's latest blog post about Creating Data Driven Subscriptions for Power BI Reports, some Power Apps stuff, and some other t…
00:27:22 |
Sat 13 Jun 2020
Episode 148 - May 2020 News Recap
This is episode 148 recorded on June 4, 2020 where John & Jason talk about the rest of the news from May 2020 including Power BI Report Server May 2020 Feature Summary, Power BI Dataflows Direct Quer…
00:34:47 |
Sat 06 Jun 2020
Episode 147 - Interview with Will Thompson
This is episode 147 recorded on May 28, 2020 where John & Jason talk to Will Thompson, Group Program Manager for Power BI Creation Experiences about his vision, The future of Power BI authoring, and…
00:38:18 |
Sun 31 May 2020
Episode 146 - May 2020 Power BI Desktop Update
This is episode 146 recorded on May 21, 2020 where John & Jason talk about the May 2020 Power BI Desktop Update including Curate featured tables for Excel coming to preview, Drop shadow support for v…
00:38:23 |
Sat 23 May 2020
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