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 145 - April 2020 Power BI Desktop Update
This is episode 145 recorded on May 15, 2020 where John & Jason talk about the April 2020 Power BI Desktop Update including being able to Personalize visuals (in preview), change detection for page r…
00:35:51 |
Sat 16 May 2020
Episode 144 - MBAS 2020 Recap
This is episode 144 recorded on May 7, 2020 where John & Jason recap announcements made during the Microsoft Business Applications Summit like connecting to multiple models in a single report, expans…
00:36:40 |
Fri 08 May 2020
Episode 143 - May the 4th be with you
This is episode 143 recorded on May 4, 2020 where John & Jason talk about Microsoft Business Applications Summit, the delay of the April Desktop, Subreports now available in Paginated Reports, and Jo…
00:28:08 |
Tue 05 May 2020
Episode 142 - Power BI News updates
This is episode 142 recorded on April 16th, 2020 where John & Jason go over the Power BI News of the day, including the new workspace look and feel, improvements to Paginated reports, copying visuals…
00:33:37 |
Fri 17 Apr 2020
Episode 141 - C'mon get Appy
This is episode 141 recorded on April 10th, 2020 where John & Jason talk in depth about Power BI Apps, Power BI Template Apps, discuss the announcement about Power BI Apps this week where designing c…
00:32:36 |
Mon 13 Apr 2020
Episode 140 - Exploring Azure Data Exlorer
This is episode 140 recorded on April 3rd, 2020 where John & Jason talk about Azure Data Explorer, formerly known as Kusto, discuss some of the COVID data out in the ether, and the XMLA read\write en…
00:31:45 |
Sat 04 Apr 2020
Episode 139 - Talk about COVID-19 data with Rob Foster
This is episode 139 recorded on March 26th, 2020 where John & Jason talk to Rob Foster, Senior Manager at Deloitte & Office Apps and Services MVP, about his video on the COVID-19 data that inspired t…
00:34:09 |
Fri 27 Mar 2020
Episode 138 - March 2020 Power BI Desktop Update
This is episode 138 recorded on March 16th, 2020 where John & Jason talk about the March 2020 Power BI Desktop Update including New action types for buttons, Multi-column sort for tables, and the New…
00:30:07 |
Wed 18 Mar 2020
Episode 137 - Going Viral
This is episode 137 recorded on March 2nd, 2020 where John & Jason talk about trouble with Calculation groups, the new Power BI tab in Microsoft Teams, and Power BI Home Changes.
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00:30:24 |
Thu 05 Mar 2020
Episode 136 - February 2020 Power BI Desktop Update
This is episode 136 recorded on February 18th, 2020 where John & Jason talk about the February 2020 Power BI Desktop Update including incremental refresh going GA & available for Pro users, the out …
00:25:39 |
Thu 20 Feb 2020
Episode 135 - Early February Catch Up
This is episode 135 recorded on February 5th, 2020 where John & Jason catch up on some news including the Publish to Web default is changing, improved report usage metrics in modern workspaces, and t…
00:21:44 |
Fri 07 Feb 2020
Episode 134 - 2020 Foresight
This is episode 134 recorded on January 28th, 2020 where John & Jason walk through the Power Platform 2020 Release Wave 1 Plan in excruciating detail.
For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
00:39:47 |
Fri 31 Jan 2020
Episode 133 - Get started with Power BI & Treb Gatte
This is episode 133 recorded on January 24th, 2020 where John & Jason talk to Treb Gatte, CEO of Marquee Insights & Data Platform MVP, about getstartedwithpowerbi.com, the Microsoft Ignite announceme…
00:35:48 |
Sun 26 Jan 2020
Episode 132 - Welcome Back
This is episode 132 recorded on January 16th, 2020 where John & Jason talk about some updates in Jason's world, discuss the Microsoft Ignite World Tour, and cover the latest news in Power BI.
For sh…
00:29:39 |
Sat 18 Jan 2020
Episode 131 - Hindsight for 2020
This is episode 131 recorded on January 2nd, 2020 where John & Jason cover the news, review their predictions for 2019, and make predictions for 2020.
For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
00:39:50 |
Fri 03 Jan 2020
Episode 130 - The Final version of Power BI Desktop... this year
This is episode 130 recorded on December 20, 2019 where John & Jason walk through the latest version of Power BI Desktop, which includes a theme editor, data URLs, and more.
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00:30:34 |
Sun 22 Dec 2019
Episode 129 - Power BI news from SharePoint Fest Chicago 2019
This is episode 129 recorded live at SharePoint Fest Chicago on December 11, 2019 where John & Jason cover off a few recent Power BI news items, and highlight some recent guidance around Power BI Pre…
00:24:11 |
Wed 18 Dec 2019
Episode 128 - Interview with Dona Sarkar
This is episode 128 recorded live at Microsoft Ignite on November 5th, 2019 where John & Jason talk to Dona Sarkar, Principal Advocate for the Microsoft Power Platform about her background, community…
00:37:46 |
Wed 27 Nov 2019
Episode 127 - November 2019 Power BI Desktop Update
This is episode 127 recorded on November 14th, 2019 where John & Jason talk about the November Power BI Desktop features including the new Power BI Desktop Ribbon, Decomposition Tree, and AI Function…
00:38:05 |
Tue 19 Nov 2019
Episode 126 - Ignite Wrap Up and Unconference Outcomes
This is episode 126 recorded on November 8th, 2019 where John & Jason talk about Microsoft Ignite, the announcements, the demos, and all the rest of the stuff from the show.
For show notes please v…
00:24:06 |
Fri 15 Nov 2019
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