(Livestream Replay) The Skills Your Power BI Team Needs to Succeed - with Ed Hansberry

What does it mean to implement Power BI in your organization? Who is on the Power BI Team, and what skills do they need? This goes beyond report authoring. It is an organizational initiative!

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My background is as a CPA and have spent most of my career in financial and accounting related positions. I am an experienced Controller with a demonstrated history of working in the consumer goods industry. Skilled in Budgeting, Operations Management, Consumer Products, Business Development, and Strategic Planning. I have a Microsoft Certification using Power BI (MCSA BI Reporting), and am technically proficient with in Microsoft Power BI tools using Data Analysis Expressions (DAX), data modeling, Power Query/M Language, Power Pivot, DAX Studio, and Microsoft Excel. Strong accounting professional with a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) focused in Accounting and Business/Management from Lipscomb University.

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(Livestream Replay) Getting Started with Paginated Reports - with GreySkull Analytics

With the introduction of Premium Per User licensing and new features such as the paginated report visual in Power BI desktop, Paginated Reports are more popular than ever! This session will show you how to get started with Power BI Report Builder, how to connect to a published Power BI dataset, and then how to consume that report in Power BI desktop. Keep any eye out for some of the things that might trip you up!

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With the introduction of Premium Per User licensing and new features such as the paginated report visual in Power BI desktop, Paginated Reports are more popular than ever. This session will show you how to get started with Power BI Report Builder, how to connect to a published Power BI dataset and then how to consume that report in Power BI desktop. Keep any eye out for some of the things that might trip you up!

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(Livestream Replay) Explaining the XMLA Endpoint and its Use Cases

Power BI is merging with Azure Analysis Services! Microsoft is now opening up and giving us full access to the powerful Analysis Services engine in the Power BI service. This gives us semantic models that serve as the single source of truth for the whole enterprise. Manage the models (datasets) with the tools you know and love and give read and write-access to a variety of Microsoft and third-party client tools.

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Just Blindbaek is an independent BI consultant with extensive experience in all phases of BI development on Microsoft SQL Server, Azure and Power BI. Founder and coordinator of Microsoft Business Intelligence Professionals Denmark (MsBIP.dk) and Power BI UG Denmark (PowerBI.dk).

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(Livestream Replay) Current & Future (Power) BI Trends with Alex Powers

Hang out with us as Alex Powers and I talk BI shop and discuss current and future trends in the (Power) business intelligence industry!

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From financial services to felines, the World Wide Web to professional wrestling – Alex Powers has an affinity for the conventional and unconventional when it comes to information. A self-proclaimed Excel and Power BI Enthusiast – Alex enjoys contributing to online forums, co-hosting the Power BI YouTube series Two Alex and sharing his passion for empowering others using Microsoft technologies.

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