(Livestream Replay) The Evolution and Integration of Power Query - with Miguel Llopis

Join us as Miguel and I discuss a variety of topics related to Power Query. As the Lead Program Manager for Power Query, M, and Dataflows at Microsoft Miguel has invaluable insight into the current and future trends of the product. Topics will include: platforms within Microsoft where Power Query is implemented, feature parity between Power BI (Desktop vs. Service), the evolution of query folding, and more!

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Miguel is the Program Manager Lead for Power Query, M and Dataflows at Microsoft.

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(Livestream Replay) Let's Talk About Data Culture - with Matthew Roche

Choosing the right data and BI tools is important, but it’s just part of the picture. To get the most from Power BI or any modern self-service BI tool you need more people working with more of the right data, more often. You need a data culture! Matthew Roche from the Power BI CAT team has spent the past three years working with enterprise organizations around the world, learning what works and what doesn’t work. Matthew will introduce the Power BI Adoption Roadmap, a new set of guidance from the Power BI team, and will discuss steps that any organization can take to become more data-driven.

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Matthew Roche is a Principal Program Manager in Microsoft’s Cloud + AI Group, where he focuses on business intelligence, enterprise information management, metadata, and data warehousing. \

Matthew is currently a member of the Power BI CAT team, where he was saddened to learn that there were not actually any cats. Previously he has worked on Azure Data Catalog, SQL Server Integration Services, Master Data Services, and Data Quality Services. Before joining Microsoft, he worked as an architect, consultant, and trainer focusing on ETL, data warehousing, and business intelligence.

When he’s not enabling the world to get more value from its data, Matthew enjoys kittens, baking, heavy metal, and competitive longsword combat.

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(Livestream Replay) Getting to know Power BI Template Apps (AppSource) - with Teddy Bercovitz

Getting started with Power BI can be as easy as installing a template app, we will review the (AppSource) marketplace what you can find the installation experience of template apps for end users. Power BI authors will find ways to leverage template apps as a proxy model to dataset, why you should always check out the marketplace before starting from scratch and how template apps can be a way to share a protected pbix with other users.

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Principal Program Manager, Power BI template apps & Power Apps solutions Teddy Bercovitz has held various engineering and product management roles for the past 15 years. Teddy is part of Power BI’s developer group focused on building extensibility stories with 3rd party marketplace offerings driving success to Microsoft's partners.

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