BIFocal - Clarifying Business Intelligence

BIFocal - Clarifying Business Intelligence episodes:

• 04.23.2024

  Episode 275 - Power BI March 2024 Feature Summary

  This is episode 275 recorded on April 22nd, 2024 where John & Jason talk the Power BI March 2024 Feature Summary including on-object interactions update, Power Query in Paginated Reports, DAX Query View updates with Copilot, enhancements to model editing...

  
• 03.20.2024

  Episode 274 - Power BI February 2024 Feature Summary

  This is episode 274 recorded on March 19th, 2024 where John & Jason talk the Power BI February 2024 Feature Summary including updates to Visual Cals, Power BI Home, Measure descriptions with Copilot, Data overview in Explore, and TMDL in...

  
• 03.12.2024

  Episode 273 - Interview with Alex Powers

  This is episode 273 recorded on January 26, 2024 where John & Jason talk to Alex Powers, Senior Program Manager on the Power BI CAT Team at Microsoft, about Copilot in Data Factory and much, much more.

  
• 01.17.2024

  Episode 272 - 2023 Predictions Review and New Predictions for 2024

  This is episode 272 recorded on January 12, 2024 where John & Jason do the annual year end wrap-up. Jason comes out ahead on his predictions from 2023 - but only by a little, and everybody has a few interesting...

  
• 12.28.2023

  Episode 271 - Power BI December 2023 Feature Summary

  This is episode 271 recorded on December 15rd, 2023 where John & Jason talk about the Power BI December 2023 Feature Summary including a Community update, On-object Interaction updates, Extended customization for data labels,...

  
• 12.05.2023

  Episode 270 - Traveling updates & a visit to CERN

  This is episode 270 recorded on December 3rd, 2023 live from the Autobahn where John & Jason talk about what they have been up to lately including presenting at ESPC23, their visit to CERN, and the upcoming Microsoft Fabric Community...

  
• 11.29.2023

  Episode 269 - Power BI November 2023 Feature Summary part 2

  This is episode 269 recorded on November 22st, 2023 where John & Jason talk the Power BI November 2023 Feature Summary, part 2, including the new Explore feature, OneLake integration for Import-mode semantic models, and stored credentials for Direct Lake...

  
• 11.21.2023

  Episode 268 - Power BI November 2023 Feature Summary part 1

  This is episode 268 recorded on November 21st, 2023 where John & Jason talk the Power BI November 2023 Feature Summary, for way too long and have to split the episode in 2 parts, including the new button slicer, DAX...

  
• 11.16.2023

  Episode 267 - Microsoft Ignite 2023 - Fabric is GA

  This is episode 267 recorded on November 17th, 2023 where John & Jason talk about the release to GA of Microsoft Fabric and everything around it Mirroring in Microsoft Fabric, Microsoft 365 Data in Microsoft Fabric, and the Public Preview...

  
• 10.26.2023

  Episode 266 - Power BI October 2023 Feature Summary

  This is episode 266 recorded on October 19th, 2023 where John & Jason talk about the Power BI updates for October 2023 including the Power BI Desktop OneDrive and SharePoint integration, Power BI Home in Desktop, and the ability to...

  
• 10.25.2023

  Episode 265 - Power BI September 2023 Feature Summary and Power Platform Conference Wrapup

  This is episode 265 recorded on October 19th, 2023 where John & Jason talk about the Power BI updates for August 2023 including the interactive mobile canvas, changes to the online model editing experience, and GIT support for paginated reports.

  
• 10.24.2023

  Episode 264 - Interview with Heather Cook

  This is episode 264 recorded some time in August where John & Jason talk to Heather Cook, Principal PM Manager at Microsoft for Power Platform, where we discuss the upcoming Power Platform Conference, the Microsoft community ecosystem, and learning &...

  
• 10.23.2023

  Episode 263 - Power BI August 2023 Feature Summary

  This is episode 263 recorded sometime in August where John & Jason talk about the Power BI updates for August 2023 including improvements to on-object interactions, XMLA write support for Direct Lake datasets, and improvements to the PBIP format.

  
• 07.17.2023

  Episode 262 - Power BI July 2023 Feature Summary

  This is episode 262 recorded on July 14th, 2023 where John & Jason talk about the Power BI updates for July 2023 including Smoothed and Leader lines, updates to On-object Interactions & editing your data model in the Power BI...

  
• 07.14.2023

  Episode 261 - Community chat at EPPC

  This is episode 261 recorded on June 21st, 2023 where Jason talks with Microsoft MVPs & Community rockstars Laura Graham-Brown & Marc Lelijveld about Microsoft Fabric, being back to in person conferences, and the community in general. For show notes please...

  
• 06.21.2023

  Episode 260 - Power BI June 2023 Feature Summary

  This is episode 260 recorded on June 15th, 2023 where John & Jason talk about the Power BI updates for June 2023 including the new card visual, On-Object Interaction updates, admin monitoring, and Power BI Desktop Developer Mode. For show notes...

  
• 06.13.2023

  Episode 259 - Fabric Licensing for Power BI

  This is episode 259 recorded on June 7th, 2023 where John & Jason talk about Microsoft Fabric licensing from a Power BI perspective. We'll talk about Pro licenses, capacity-based licenses, the difference between P and F SKUs, and a whole...

  
• 06.06.2023

  Episode 258 - May 2023 Power BI Feature Summary

  This is episode 258 recorded on June 5th, 2023 where John & Jason review the May 2023 updates to Power BI, and boy, it's a doozey. We cover Microsoft Fabric updates, a whole bunch of GA announcements, data model editing...

  
• 05.29.2023

  Episode 257 - Power BI Developer mode with Rui Romano

  This is episode 257 recorded on May 3rd, 2023 where John & Jason talk to Rui Romano, Principal Program Manager for Power BI at Microsoft, about the upcoming advancements for developers using Power BI Developer mode. For show notes please visit...

  
• 05.28.2023

  Episode 256 - News from Build with Gabi Münster

  This is episode 256 recorded on May 24th, 2023 where John & Jason talk to Gabi Münster, Senior Program Manager on the Fabric CAT Team at Microsoft, about the announcements made at Microsoft Build 2023. For show notes please visit http://www.bifocal.show/

  
• 05.02.2023

  Episode 255 - Interview with Rosie Levasseur

  This is episode 255 recorded on April 28th, 2023 where John & Jason talk to Rosie Levasseur, Senior Product Manager for Power BI, all about the on-object feature set and the changes that have and will be made for Power...

  
• 04.25.2023

  Episode 254 - Interview with Emily Lisa

  This is episode 254 recorded on April 14th, 2023 where John & Jason talk to Emily Lisa, Senior Product Manager for Power BI, about the newly announced Public Preview of the "Edit your data model in the Power BI service"...

  
• 04.17.2023

  Episode 253 - Interview with Zoe Douglas

  This is episode 253 recorded on April 12th, 2023 where John & Jason talk to Zoe Douglas, Senior Program Manager for Power BI, about Dynamic format strings for measures, the new Apply all slicers and Clear all slicers buttons, and...

  
• 04.14.2023

  Episode 252 - April 2023 Power BI Updates

  This is episode 252 recorded on April 12, 2023 where John & Jason talk about the Power BI updates for April 2023 including Dynamic format strings for measures, Filters for web created paginated reports, tooltip auto-scale and much more.

  
• 03.27.2023

  Episode 251 - Power BI News Updates

  This is episode 251 recorded March 24th, 2023 where John & Jason talk about and the recap the news from the past few weeks in the Power BI space including the retirement of Streaming Dataflows, Query parallelism, Scanner API updates,...

  
• 03.17.2023

  Episode 250 - Power BI March 2023 Feature Summary

  This is episode 250 recorded March 14th, 2023 where John & Jason talk about the March 2023 Power BI updates which include the Apply all slicers button, Clear all slicers button, and Optimization presets update, Storytelling in PowerPoint and...

  
• 02.18.2023

  Episode 249 - Power BI February 2023 Feature Summary

  This is episode 249 recorded February 17th, 2023 where Jason talks to Patrick LeBlanc, Principal Program Manager on the Power BI CAT Team at Microsoft & a Guy in a Cube, about the February 2023 Power BI updates which include...

  
• 01.25.2023

  Episode 248 - Power BI 2023 release wave 1 plan

  This is episode 248 recorded on January 24th, 2023 where John & Jason review the Microsoft Power BI 2023 release wave 1 plan that covers the roadmap from April to September of 2023. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

  
• 01.24.2023

  Episode 247 - Interview with Scott Sewell

  This is episode 247 recorded January 20th, 2023 where John & Jason interview Scott Sewell, Principal Program Manager on the CAT Team at Microsoft, about Dataverse, Dynamics 365, and Power BI. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

  
• 01.10.2023

  Episode 246 - Predictions show for 2023

  This is episode 246 recorded January 9th, 2023 where John & Jason review their wins & losses with their 2022 predictions and prognosticate about what they see happening in 2023. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

  
• 01.09.2023

  Episode 245 - Recap of Power BI in 2022

  This is episode 245 recorded on January 6th, 2023 where John & Jason do a year in review for all things Power BI in 2022. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

  
• 12.22.2022

  Episode 244 - News Wrap up for 2022

  This is episode 244 recorded December 21st, 2022 where John & Jason talk about the news from November & December in the Power BI space including new cache refresh settings available in Power BI Premium, subscribe to a report with...

  
• 12.14.2022

  Episode 243 - Power BI December 2022 Feature Summary

  This is episode 243 recorded December 14th, 2022 where John & Jason talk about the December 2022 Power BI updates which include Slicer type formatting moved to Format Pane, Making it easier to do comparison calculations, and Upcoming changes to...

  
• 11.29.2022

  Episode 242 - Power BI November 2022 Feature Summary

  This is episode 242 recorded November 23th, 2022 where John & Jason talk about the November 2022 Power BI updates which include New Power BI Color Accent, Create dynamic slicers using field parameters, New way to upload Power BI and...

  
• 11.13.2022

  Episode 241 - Exciting Paginated Reports News!

  This is episode 241 recorded November 11th, 2022 where John & Jason talk about the big news from Microsoft about Paginated Reports now being available to Power BI Pro users, Save a copy of a report & Collapse navigation pane...

  
• 11.08.2022

  Episode 240 - Interview with Mohammad Ali

  This is episode 240 recorded November 2nd, 2022 where Jason talks to Mohammad Ali, Principal Group Program Manager for the Creator Experiences in Power BI at Microsoft, about what his team announced at Microsoft Ignite, and his viewpoint on the...

  
• 11.01.2022

  Episode 239 - Power BI News Update

  This is episode 239 recorded October 27th, 2022 where John & Jason cover the Power BI related news from the past few weeks including AAD-based filtration for Power BI Datamarts, the Power Query SDK for Visual Studio Code, and Cross-tenant...

  
• 10.21.2022

  Episode 238 - Power BI October 2022 Feature Summary

  This is episode 238 recorded October 20th, 2022 where John & Jason go over the October 2022 Power BI updates which include the new experimental Quick Measure Suggestions, Improved PBIX downloading options, and DAX formula editing in the Desktop Model...

  
• 10.14.2022

  Episode 237 - Power BI announcements from Microsoft Ignite 2022

  This is episode 237 recorded October 6th, 2022 where John & Jason go over the announcements made at Microsoft Ignite 2022 including Explore and interact with Power BI reports directly from OneDrive and SharePoint, Contextual on-object interaction with Power BI...

  
• 10.07.2022

  Episode 236 - Power BI September 2022 Feature Summary

  This is episode 236 recorded October 6th, 2022 where John & Jason go over the September 2022 Power BI updates which include Conditional formatting for data labels, Cross-Tenant Dataset Sharing, Hierarchical axis by default, and Paginated reports data preview. For show...

  
• 09.14.2022

  Episode 235 - Interview with Ed Senez

  This is episode 235 recorded September 13th, 2022 where John & Jason talk to Ed Senez, CEO of tyGraph, about the big announcement in his & John's world and about what tyGraph is up to today and moving forward. For show...

  
• 09.01.2022

  Episode 234 - Interview with Alex Powers

  This is episode 234 recorded August 26th, 2022 where John & Jason talk to Alex Powers, Senior Program Manager on the Power BI CAT Team at Microsoft, about his journey into Power BI, his Power Query everything world view, automating...

  
• 08.16.2022

  Episode 233 - Power BI August 2022 Feature Summary

  This is episode 233 recorded August 12th, 2022 where John & Jason go over the August 2022 Power BI updates which include conditional formatting for data labels, mobile formatting now supports text box visuals, DAX Editor improvements, and more. For...

  
• 07.26.2022

  Episode 232 - Power BI- 2022 release wave 2 plan

  This is episode 232 recorded July 18th, 2022 where John & Jason talk about the Microsoft Power Platform: 2022 release wave 2 plan and go over the items specific to Power BI including Query Scale-out, Dataset authoring in the Power...

  
• 07.19.2022

  Episode 231 - Power BI July 2022 Feature Summary

  This is episode 231 recorded July 17th, 2022 where John & Jason go over the July 2022 Power BI updates which include Release Notes & Ideas Updates, Error Bars goes GA, Filled Map for Azure Maps visual, a new DAX...

  
• 06.30.2022

  Episode 230 - Interview with Priya Sathy

  This is episode 230 recorded June 28th, 2022 where John & Jason talk to Priya Sathy, Group Program Manager in the Microsoft Intelligence Data Platform & the head of Product Management for Data Warehouse in Power BI, about the new...

  
• 06.21.2022

  Episode 229 - Power BI June 2022 Feature Summary

  This is episode 229 recorded June 17th, 2022 where John & Jason go over the June 2022 Power BI updates which include Connect to Datamarts in preview, Power BI Data Story Telling updates, and announcing the Data Hub in Power...

  
• 06.09.2022

  Episode 228 - Catching up on the Power BI news

  This is episode 228 recorded June 7th, 2022 where John & Jason review the Power BI news from the past several weeks including Analyze in Excel Workbooks are now saved to OneDrive, the new Known Issues page for Power BI,...

  
• 06.02.2022

  Episode 227 - Interview with Treb Gatte about Power BI metrics

  This is episode 227 recorded May 27th, 2022 where John & Jason talk to Treb Gatte, CEO of Marquee Insights & Data Platform MVP, about the change from Power BI Goals to Power BI metrics and much more. For show notes...

  
• 05.25.2022

  Episode 226 - Power BI announcements from Microsoft Build 2022

  This is episode 226 recorded May 24th, 2022 where John & Jason go over the Power BI announcements from Microsoft Build 2022 such as changing from Power BI Goals to Power BI metrics, new Power BI integration in PowerPoint, and...