BIFocal - Clarifying Business Intelligence

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 the public preview of datamarts in the Power BI service. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 225 recorded May 17th, 2022 where John & Jason go over the May 2022 Power BI updates which include field parameters, improvements to Power BI subscription management, Canvas zoom, and more. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 224 recorded live at 365EduCon in Seattle on May 13th, 2022 where John & Jason go over the April 2022 Power BI updates and an update on the state of BIFocal.show & it's hosts. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 223 recorded on April 6th, 2022 where John & Jason talk to Laura Rogers, Microsoft MVP and CEO of IWMentor.com, about the role of training in the information worker space, her approach to helping people learn Power Apps, and her weekly YouTube live show, Power Hour. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 222 recorded on March 22nd, 2022 where John & Jason go over the March 2022 Power BI updates including Error Bars, Azure Maps visual getting to parity with Bing Maps visual, and Quickly create reports from SharePoint document libraries. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 221 recorded on March 10th, 2022 where John & Jason talk about the state of the world & do a deep dive on the work John has been doing with Azure Data Explorer, also known as Kusto. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 220 recorded on February 24th, 2022 where John & Jason go over the February 2022 Power BI updates including new mobile formatting options, Dynamic M Query Parameters now supports SQL Server, Download .pbix improvements, and more. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 219 recorded on February 18th, 2022 where John & Jason talk to Kelly Kaye, Community Program Manager for Power BI about a whole host of community related topics including diversity, opportunity, and a new live Power BI community show For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 218 recorded on January 28th, 2022 where John & Jason review the Microsoft Power BI 2022 release wave 1 plan that covers the roadmap from April to September of 2022. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 217 recorded on December 23rd, 2021 where John & Jason do a year in review for all things Power BI in 2021, review their wins & losses with their 2021 predictions, and prognosticate about what they see happening in 2022. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 216 recorded on December 22nd, 2021 where John & Jason go over the December 2021 Power BI updates including Sparklines in Table & Matrix visuals, New Format Pane updates, Allow sharing links to include your changes to the report, and Announcing Public Preview of Hybrid Tables in Power BI Premium. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 215 recorded on December 17th, 2021 where John & Jason talk to Kim Manis, Director of Product for Azure Synapse. Kim fills us in on what Synapses is, exactly, why it should matter to Power BI users, and shares her vision on the future of both Synapse and Power BI. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 214 recorded on December 7th, 2021 where John & Jason discuss the news in the Power BI space such as Power BI Streaming Dataflows November Update, Capacity settings for datasets are now in Power BI Premium Gen2, and talk about the past couple of weeks in the return to in person conferences. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 213, part 2 of 2, recorded on November 16th, 2021 where John & Jason go over the November 2021 Power BI updates including the new connectors for Azure Synapse Analytics and Google Sheets, Datasets hub improvements, and Support embedding a Power BI report that contains a paginated report visual. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 212 recorded on November 16th, 2021 where John & Jason go over the November 2021 Power BI updates including the New Format Pane, Page & Bookmark Navigators, Sort Legend, and the new Visual Scorecard from Power BI Goals. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 211 recorded on November 10th, 2021 where John & Jason talk Shane Young, Principal Consultant at PowerApps911, Power Apps MVP, and YouTube Sensation, about Microsoft Power Apps, Microsoft Dataverse, and some of the announcements made at Microsoft Ignite around the Power Platform stack. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 210 recorded on November 3rd, 2021 where John & Jason talk about the latest news announced at and around Microsoft Ignite Fall 2021 including Azure Chaos Studio, Power BI Teams App goes GA, and Hybrid tables - coming "this year". For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 209 recorded on October 25th, 2021 where John & Jason share their views on the upcoming Microsoft Ignite 2021 Conference and the state of remote conferences in General. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 208 recorded on October 14th, 2021 where John & Jason go over the October 2021 Power BI updates including Heat map layer – Azure Maps Visual, improvements to Metamodels, ODBC support for Paginated Reports, and a call back to the September 2021 service update hidden feature. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 207 recorded on October 2nd, 2021 where John & Jason catch up on the September 2021 news such as a Preview Update to the Export Power BI report to file API, Power BI Embedded Analytics Playground Updates, and A New Admin API to determine who has access to what in now in Public Preview. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 206 recorded on September 23rd, 2021 where John & Jason go over the September 2021 Power BI updates including New formatting options for buttons, Insights is now in preview, Power BI Goals gets automated status rules, and a new Paginated Report Builder. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 205 recorded on September 17th, 2021 where John & Jason talk to Patrick LeBlanc, one of those Guy in a Cube guys and the Chief Technical Evangelist for Power BI at Microsoft, about his new role, the Community, and what has him excited in the Analytics space. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 204 recorded on September 3rd, 2021 where John & Jason catch up on the August 2021 news such as the new Premium Metrics App, the new preview of Automatic Aggregations, and refresh history for changes made through the XMLA endpoint. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 203 recorded on August 27th, 2021 where John & Jason go over the August 2021 Power BI updates, including Default sensitivity label policy in Power BI desktop, Leverage automatic aggregations to enhance performance over DirectQuery datasets, Power BI REST API support for DAX Queries in preview, and Detailed historical activity information for Premium datasets. For show notes please...

This is episode 202 recorded on August 6th, 2021 where John & Jason review some Power BI news from the past few weeks such as Connected PivotTable refresh in Excel for the web is now 100% available to Office tenants, Updated Timeline and milestones for Premium Gen2 General Availability, and lots of cool new developer stuff. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show