BIFocal - Clarifying Business Intelligence

This is episode 176 recorded on January 8th, 2021 where John & Jason talk about Report Creation in the Power BI Service, the preview of Datasets Hub, and General Availability of the XMLA Read/Write end-point… plus we bring back Ideas.powerbi.com picks for 2021. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 175 recorded on December 15th, 2020 where John & Jason talk with Christian Wade about what's been happening around the enterprise capabilities for Power BI, how exciting working in the space is, and just bask in Christian's great energy. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 174 recorded on December 21st, 2020 where John & Jason review the changes with Power BI over the past year, check out how they did on last year's predictions, and make some new predictions for 2021. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 173 recorded on December 18th, 2020 where John & Jason talk about the Power BI December 2020 Feature Summary including the DirectQuery for Power BI datasets and Azure Analysis Services preview, Small Multiples preview, Anomaly detection in all mobile apps, and much more. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 172 recorded on December 14th, 2020 where John & Jason talk with Tessa & Jereon, from the Power BI Product Team, about some of the announcement in this month's release of Power BI Desktop. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 171 recorded on December 4th, 2020 where John & Jason talk about Azure Synapse Analytics reaching general availability and the announcement of Azure Purview in Public Preview. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 170 recorded on November 13th, 2020 where John & Jason talk about Anomaly Detection & the Visual Data Prep public previews, and what’s new in Power Query & Dataflows. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 169 recorded on November 13th, 2020 where John & Jason talk about the Power BI November 2020 Feature Summary including the New Field List & Model view previews, the Visual Zoom Slicer, and some Coming Soon attractions. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 168 recorded on November 13, 2020 where John & Jason talk about the public availability of the new Power BI premium per user license, as well as the preview on the Gen 2 Premium Architecture. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 167 recorded on November 6, 2020 where John & Jason talk about the election… and then Power BI News. We promise we really do. Topics like Updates to Power BI Publish to web for better public reporting, Priority Access sign-up for Power BI Premium per user public preview now available, and Paginated Report November 2020 Feature Summary. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 166 recorded on October 30, 2020 where John & Jason start talking about the October 2020 Power BI update, again, including updates to the mobile experience, a new HTML visual, major changes to Template Apps. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 165 recorded on October 23, 2020 where John & Jason start talking about the October 2020 Power BI update - things like dynamic M queries, a new SharePoint list connectors but don’t quite get finished. You'll have to come back next week for the rest! For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 164 recorded on October 16, 2020 where John & Jason talk about some recent news, the new Power BI app for Teams, alternative productivity tools, and Jason's blog post series on working from home. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 163 recorded on October 09, 2020 where John & Jason talk about how not to use Excel properly (listen up UK government..) and the role of Excel in Power BI today and in the future. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 162 recorded on October 2, 2020 where John & Jason talk about a few changes to the monthly update announcements and go through the announcement for September. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 161 recorded on September 25th, 2020 where John & Jason talk with Chris Finlan, Principal Program Manager for Power BI at Microsoft, about the news from Microsoft Ignite including the Power Automate actions for Power BI, Premium Gen2, and Premium Per User. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 160 recorded on September 22th, 2020 where John & Jason recap the Power BI News from Microsoft Ignite with Patrick Leblanc & Adam Saxton, from Microsoft, aka Guy in a Cube with highlights such as Premium Per User, picks from the September 2020 Desktop release, and Power BI Premium Gen2. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 159 recorded on September 11th, 2020 where John & Jason catch up on the Power BI News from the past few weeks and share insights about Microsoft Ignite. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 158 recorded on August 28th, 2020 where John & Jason catch up on the Power BI News from the past few weeks including re-imagined headers and navigation in the Power BI Mobile apps, Power BI data protection updates, and Release update for Sept 2020 release of Power BI Report Server. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 157 recorded on August 21st, 2020 where John & Jason talk to Microsoft MVPs Mike Carlo & Seth Bauer, from PowerBI.tips, about their new tool Business Ops and all of the great stuff they do at PowerBI.Tips. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 156 recorded on August 14th, 2020 where John & Jason talk about the August 2020 Power BI Desktop Update including dynamic formatting support to more visuals, Direct Query support for Q&A in preview, Text/CSV By Example in preview. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 155, our 3rd anniversary episode, recorded on August 7th, 2020 where John & Jason talk about updates to Microsoft Teams, the new Microsoft Ignite dates, some announcements about Power BI Workspaces & Dataflows, and some Ideas picks. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 154 recorded on July 22nd, 2020 where John & Jason talk about the July 2020 Power BI Desktop Update including Gradient Legend, Azure Maps Visuals, and the fact that Power BI Desktop now supports external-tool extensibility. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 153 recorded on July 9th, 2020 where John & Jason talk about the newly released Microsoft Power Platform: 2020 release wave 2 plan for Power BI Mobile & the Power BI Service. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 152 recorded on July 9th, 2020 where John & Jason talk about the newly released Microsoft Power Platform: 2020 release wave 2 plan for Power BI Desktop. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show