BIFocal - Clarifying Business Intelligence

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 Premium.

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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, and intrapreneurship.

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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 Functions in Power Query.

Jason's blog post

Office 365 Service Description Power BI Reporthttps://www.sharepointlonghorn.com/office-365-service-description-power-bi-report/

John's blog post

A low cost approach for paginated report subscriptions in Power BIhttp://whitepages.unlimitedviz.com/2019/11/a-low-cost-approach-for-paginated-report-subscriptions-in-power-bi/

Desktop November 2019

Other

• Modern ribbon (preview)

Reporting

• Decomposition tree visual (preview)

Analytics

• Conditionally format button formatting

Visualizations

• ArcGIS Maps for Power BI update

• New xViz visuals

• Advanced Gauge

• Hierarchical Filter

• ZoomCharts Drill-Down Waterfall Visual

• Financial Reporting Matrix by Profitbase

• Distribution

• Tree

Data connectivity

• LinkedIn Sales Navigator connector

• Edit SAP variables experience now generally available

• Vena connector

• SiteImprove connector

• Product Insights connector

• Web By Example connector – support for extracting links

Data Preparation

• AI functions in Power Query (Preview)

Template apps

• LinkedIn Sales Navigator for Sales Operations

Ideas

Dark Mode

https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/37882726-option-to-use-either-light-or-dark-interface

https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/34628386-dark-mode-for-power-bi

Jason's pick - Votes: 601

No Ctrl-Click on Buttons Needed for Bookmarks View Mode

When editing in Desktop, you have to Ctrl-Click a button to trigger the assigned action - very good. But when you have multiple bookmarks and you go into "View" mode, you are effectively in "PowerPoint Mode". When in this mode, there should be just a single click for a button (no ctrl needed).

https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/38773519-no-ctrl-click-on-buttons-needed-for-bookmarks-vie

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.

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This is episode 125 recorded live at Microsoft Ignite on November 8th, 2019 where John & Jason interview Adam Saxton, Microsoft’s “Guy in a Cube”, about the Power BI community, what announcements Microsoft made this at Microsoft Ignite, and expand upon Adam’s Guy in a Cube Round Up for November 11th.

Show Notes:

Killer Power BI updates at MS Ignite (Guy in a Cube Roundup | November 11, 2019)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQejH0KE2sw&feature=youtu.be&list=PLv2BtOtLblH0NEAt7-LT7phhn8qv718eK&fbclid=IwAR2orSNitvzBsfuC5m0P7zqDkwPaXPxXtBeuP2CHcaQxUzXlcazALHxv4VI

Weaving Business Intelligence into the fabric of the organization with Microsoft Power BI

https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/weaving-business-intelligence-into-the-fabric-of-the-organization-with-microsoft-power-bi/

Large models in Power BI Premium public preview

https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/large-models-in-power-bi-premium-public-preview/

Microsoft Power BI: Distributing insights and governing self-service analytics with the Power BI service

https://myignite.techcommunity.microsoft.com/sessions/83509

This is episode 124 recorded live at Microsoft Ignite on November 4th, 2019 where John & Jason talk about some new blogs posts from John and interview Arun Ulag, General Manager of Power BI Engineering at Microsoft, about all things Power BI, what announcements they've made this week, and where he sees them heading.

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This is episode 123 recorded on October 31st, 2019 where John & Jason talk to Anna Chu about Microsoft Ignite. She shares information about the upcoming event including lots of tips & tricks, clarifies some information about the event, and we all make some session picks.

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This is episode 122 recorded on October 29th, 2019 where John & Jason talk about the October Power BI news including refreshing your Power BI dataset using Microsoft Flow, general availability of Automated Machine learning in Power BI, and the Power BI lineage view.

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This is episode 121 recorded on October 15th, 2019 where John & Jason talk about the October Power BI Desktop features including Automatic page refresh for DirectQuery, the new Q&A visual and associated updates, and Query diagnostics.

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This is episode 120 recorded on October 2nd, 2019 where John & Jason talk about the Microsoft Ignite schedule builder and a whole bunch of news items from the last month.

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