John & Jason
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 gr...
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May 12, 2026
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Episodes
Episode 76 - Power BI Desktop's Biggest Update 22.11.2018 29:02
This is episode 76 recorded on November 21st, 2018 where John & Jason talk about all the new stuff in the latest Power BI Desktop like the updated filtering experience & the new modeling view now in preview. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Episode 75 - PASS Summit News & Dataflows 13.11.2018 29:42
This is episode 75 recorded on November 9th, 2018 where John & Jason talk about the news coming out of PASS Summit and break down the introduction of Dataflows. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Interview with Amir Netz 07.11.2018 50:29
This is episode 74 recorded on September 24th, 2018 where John & Jason interview Amir Netz, Technical Fellow and Chief Architect of Microsoft BI offerings at Microsoft, about all things Power BI. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Episode 73 - Interview with Chris Finlan 30.10.2018 40:00
This is episode 73 recorded on October 22nd, 2018 where John & Jason talk to Chris Finlan, Senior Program Manager for Power BI at Microsoft, about the Power BI Report Server, Paginated Report in the cloud via Power BI, and much more. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Episode 72 - October Desktop Update 23.10.2018 33:41
This is episode 72 recorded on October 19th, 2018 where John & Jason talk to about the October release of Power BI Desktop, and a little about publish to web reports. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Episode 71 - Interview with Amanda Cofsky 18.10.2018 38:57
This is episode 71 recorded on September 26th, 2018 where John & Jason talk about some new & exciting stuff they are each working on & interview Amanda Cofsky, Program Manager for Power BI, at Microsoft Ignite about what is coming to Power BI Desktop like Copy & Paste visuals between PBIX files. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Episode 70 - Interview with Kent Weare 09.10.2018 25:46
This is episode 70 recorded on July 24th, 2018 where John talks to Kent Weare, Principal Program Manager for Microsoft Flow, at the Business Application Summit about Microsoft Flow & the announcement that was made at Microsoft Ignite on September 27th about Power Query Online Integration for Microsoft Flow. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Episode 69 - Interview with Sundeep Meda 05.10.2018 28:28
This is episode 69 recorded on September 26th, 2018 where John & Jason talk to Sundeep Meda, Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft, about RDL in the Cloud, field listener questions, the Power BI webpart in SharePoint Online, updates to Report Builder & Report viewer, Row level security in Power BI Report Server, and much more. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Episode 68 - Live from Ignite with Adam Saxton 04.10.2018 22:30
This is episode 68 recorded on September 26th, 2018 where John & Jason talk to Adam Saxton, Microsoft's "Guy in a Cube", live at Microsoft Ignite 2018 about the new XMLA end points, Certified Data Sets, the shift to focus on Enterprise BI with Power BI Premium, the new ALM Toolkit, and much more. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Episode 67 - Interview with Josh Caplan 03.10.2018 23:54
This is episode 67 recorded on September 25th, 2018 where John & Jason talk to Josh Caplan, Sr. Program Manager for Power BI, live at Microsoft Ignite 2018 about Power BI Premium, the new XMLA end points, and much more. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Episode 66 - Power BI Desktop Update & Ignite Session picks 18.09.2018 32:02
This is episode 66 recorded on September 14th, 2018 where John & Jason talk to about the September release of Power BI Desktop and make picks for Microsoft Ignite 2018. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Episode 65 - Meetup with Reza Rad 13.09.2018 24:08
This is episode 65 recorded on September 11th, 2018 where John & Jason talk to Microsoft MVP and Regional Director Reza Rad about Reza's Power BI background, and our joint meetup at Microsoft Ignite. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.showFor show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Episode 64 - Ignite Schedule Builder 07.09.2018 24:29
This is episode 64 recorded on September 6th, 2018 where John & Jason talk about Microsoft Ignite and an alternative way to find sessions using Power BI. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Episode 63 - Interview with Christian Wade 31.08.2018 35:33
This is episode 63 recorded on August 30th, 2018 where John & Jason talk to Christian Wade, Senior Program Manager for Analysis Services at Microsoft, about Power BI in the Enterprise, the upcoming Aggregations feature, and more. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Episode 62 - Interview with Adam Saxton 21.08.2018 30:33
This is episode 62 recorded on August 16th, 2018 where John & Jason talk about the Power BI Report Server release & interview Adam Saxton, Microsoft's "Guy in a Cube". For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Episode 61 - Interview with Lukasz Pawlowski 14.08.2018 38:57
This is episode 61 recorded on August 9th, 2018 where John & Jason talk to Lukasz Pawlowski, Senior Program Manager on the Power BI team at Microsoft, and mention highlights from the August Power BI Desktop release. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Episode 60 - End of an Era 08.08.2018 29:01
This is episode 60 recorded on August 7th, 2018 where John & Jason talk about a new initiative for Power BI Beginners & the deprecation and removal of BI Features in SharePoint 2019.
Episode 59 - Interview with Will Thompson 02.08.2018 33:38
This is episode 59 recorded on July 31st, 2018 where John & Jason talk about SPSNYC, sessions for Ignite, and interview Will Thompson from the Power BI Desktop Team at Microsoft. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Episode 58 - Power BI Desktop Update & the Road Ahead 27.07.2018 33:31
This is episode 58 recorded on July 25th 2018 where John & Jason talk about Business Application Summit after-the-fact, The Road Ahead for Power BI & SharePoint blog post, and do a deep dive on the Power BI Desktop update for July. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Episode 57 - Business Application Summit Keynote Recap 24.07.2018 27:11
This is episode 57 recorded on July 23rd 2018 where John & Jason recap the announcements at the 2018 Business Application Summit in Seattle, Washington. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Episode 56 - June Developer & Gateway news 13.07.2018 28:00
This is episode 56 recorded on July 12th 2018 where John & Jason talk about Microsoft Research Open Data, Developer & Gateway news, Power BI Desktop vs Service, and MVP renewals. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Episode 55 - Power Of The Cloud 03.07.2018 23:34
This is episode 55 recorded on June 28th 2018 where John & Jason talk about a few recent bugs and service interruptions, the recent Power of the Cloud conference, PowerApps, Flow, and some recent improvements to the usability of the On Premises Data Gateway For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Episode 54 - Miscellaneous News 26.06.2018 26:17
This is episode 54 recorded on June 21th 2018… where John & Jason talk about mobile app configuration of PBIRS settings, a new way of analyzing Excel in Power BI, and the upcoming Power BI Embedded deadline. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Episode 53 - New Initiatives 20.06.2018 26:59
This is episode 53 recorded on June 13th 2018… where John & Jason talk about new initiatives in their world, discussed MyAnalytics, Azure Machine Learning, and some of the Power BI Service limits & what to do about them. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Episode 52 - Power BI Desktop June update 12.06.2018 25:52
This is episode 52 recorded on June 7th 2018… where John & Jason talk about the new Power BI Desktop update & the role of Power BI Desktop. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
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