BIFocal - Clarifying Business Intelligence

This is episode 151 recorded on June 25, 2020 where John & Jason talk about changes to some formerly useful custom visuals, Power BI Report Server licensing change, and a conversation about Apps. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 150, our sesquicentennial episode, recorded on June 17, 2020 where John & Jason talk about the June 2020 Power BI Desktop Update including Enhancements to mobile layout authoring, changes to the Hierarchy slicer, and Model view enabled for live connect. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 149 recorded on June 10, 2020 where John & Jason discuss John's latest blog post about Creating Data Driven Subscriptions for Power BI Reports, some Power Apps stuff, and some other tidbits. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 148 recorded on June 4, 2020 where John & Jason talk about the rest of the news from May 2020 including Power BI Report Server May 2020 Feature Summary, Power BI Dataflows Direct Query Support, and What’s next for the new workspace experience upgrade in the coming months. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 147 recorded on May 28, 2020 where John & Jason talk to Will Thompson, Group Program Manager for Power BI Creation Experiences about his vision, The future of Power BI authoring, and the correct way to pronounce composite models. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 146 recorded on May 21, 2020 where John & Jason talk about the May 2020 Power BI Desktop Update including Curate featured tables for Excel coming to preview, Drop shadow support for visuals, Direct Query on Dataflows and Dataset impact analysis. They also there are picks this week… finally. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 145 recorded on May 15, 2020 where John & Jason talk about the April 2020 Power BI Desktop Update including being able to Personalize visuals (in preview), change detection for page refresh (in preview)and Direct Query support for AI visuals. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 144 recorded on May 7, 2020 where John & Jason recap announcements made during the Microsoft Business Applications Summit like connecting to multiple models in a single report, expansion of Direct Query support, Power BI Template layouts, and deeper SharePoint & Teams integrations. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 143 recorded on May 4, 2020 where John & Jason talk about Microsoft Business Applications Summit, the delay of the April Desktop, Subreports now available in Paginated Reports, and John does a mea culpa. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 142 recorded on April 16th, 2020 where John & Jason go over the Power BI News of the day, including the new workspace look and feel, improvements to Paginated reports, copying visuals, and more. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 141 recorded on April 10th, 2020 where John & Jason talk in depth about Power BI Apps, Power BI Template Apps, discuss the announcement about Power BI Apps this week where designing custom navigation is becoming generally available, and have several User Voice picks to share. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 140 recorded on April 3rd, 2020 where John & Jason talk about Azure Data Explorer, formerly known as Kusto, discuss some of the COVID data out in the ether, and the XMLA read\write end point that was recently announced. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 139 recorded on March 26th, 2020 where John & Jason talk to Rob Foster, Senior Manager at Deloitte & Office Apps and Services MVP, about his video on the COVID-19 data that inspired the new series on the BIFocal YouTube Channel. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 138 recorded on March 16th, 2020 where John & Jason talk about the March 2020 Power BI Desktop Update including New action types for buttons, Multi-column sort for tables, and the New Power BI Ribbon becomes the default Ribbon… or the Ribbon. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 137 recorded on March 2nd, 2020 where John & Jason talk about trouble with Calculation groups, the new Power BI tab in Microsoft Teams, and Power BI Home Changes. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 136 recorded on February 18th, 2020 where John & Jason talk about the February 2020 Power BI Desktop Update including incremental refresh going GA & available for Pro users, the out of the box Hierarchical Slicer, and new Ribbon changes in Preview. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 135 recorded on February 5th, 2020 where John & Jason catch up on some news including the Publish to Web default is changing, improved report usage metrics in modern workspaces, and the features in the January 2020 release of Power BI Report Server. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 134 recorded on January 28th, 2020 where John & Jason walk through the Power Platform 2020 Release Wave 1 Plan in excruciating detail. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 133 recorded on January 24th, 2020 where John & Jason talk to Treb Gatte, CEO of Marquee Insights & Data Platform MVP, about getstartedwithpowerbi.com, the Microsoft Ignite announcements, and other community efforts to help people learn Power BI. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 132 recorded on January 16th, 2020 where John & Jason talk about some updates in Jason's world, discuss the Microsoft Ignite World Tour, and cover the latest news in Power BI. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 131 recorded on January 2nd, 2020 where John & Jason cover the news, review their predictions for 2019, and make predictions for 2020. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 130 recorded on December 20, 2019 where John & Jason walk through the latest version of Power BI Desktop, which includes a theme editor, data URLs, and more. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

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. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

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. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

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...