(Livestream Replay) Microsoft HATES Greg Deckler!

Come see a demonstration and learn about the first Power BI external tool to extend Power BI Desktop’s Quick Measure functionality, Microsoft Hates Greg’s Quick Measures (MSHGQM), with it’s author Greg Deckler, the king of Community.PowerBI.com’s Quick Measure Gallery. With over 120 built-in quick measures and the ability to easily add your own custom quick measures, MSHGQM can help create simple to complex DAX expressions more quickly and easily than ever before!

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Greg Deckler is a Vice President at Fusion Alliance and has been a professional technology consultant for over 27 years. Greg is a six-time Microsoft MVP for Data Platform and an active member of the Power BI Community site with over 5,000 solutions authored and almost 200 Quick Measure Gallery submissions. Greg has authored 4 books on Power BI and is working on his fifth.

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(Livestream Replay) Visual Formulas Vs DAX - Making a Case for InfoRiver - with Marco Russo as Moderator

Power BI has recently done a dedicated blog on Inforiver to highlight a new set of capabilities. So the owner of Lumel Visuals Gopal is going to discuss and debate the new architecture approach adopted by Inforiver. Marco Russo will also be a moderator in the livestream, as he’s advocated for visual level calculations with his SQLBI blog, and Inforiver delivers these new capabilities to Power BI.

Join us as we use our unique industry backgrounds to provide perspectives on how InfoRiver can be a smooth transition for Excel users to Power BI using a no-code visual-level calculation user-experience. We will also discuss how developers and business end-users can benefit from specific features such as: Visual Formulas, Excel like Formatting, Commenting, Planning, Paginated Reports, and Write-Back capabilities.

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(Livestream Replay) Effective use of Bookmarks and Buttons - with Ben Ferry (Power BI Guy)

Creating a report in Power BI should always include a stage of design that considers appropriate functionality for the end users. Though data transformation, modelling, and calculations are of course vital steps, failure to consider functionality can often, especially in the initial roll-out of Power BI within an organization, hinder user acceptance, or at the very least, overshadow the good work you have done preparing the data. The use of buttons and bookmarks can be a key element in your report preparation.

Bookmarks are a simple concept, but their value lies in their adaptability and often in the imagination of the report designer. This presentation aims to show how buttons and bookmarks can be leveraged to create sleek functionality, not only adding useful elements within your reports, but also giving you many other options as to how your data can be visualized. From absolutely essential buttons which should grace all reports, to niche bookmarks which serve as a sneaky workaround, the purpose of the presentation is to show how buttons and bookmarks, though sometimes tricky to set up, can make your life easier, but more importantly, help you create a report which does the data justice.

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Ben is Senior Data Analyst for online and highstreet opticians in Germany. Working with Power BI since 2017, he is one of the lucky few who can count his job as his hobby. Ben’s main pleasures in Power BI come from exploring and defeating APIs with Power Query, finding new tricks to achieve interesting reports and spreading the good word of Power BI.

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(Livestream Replay) Uncovering Secrets and Mysteries in your Power BI Tenant - with Benni De Jagere

Microsoft Power BI is all the rage, with enterprise and user adoption soaring year after year. New users get onboarded, reports, models, dashboards, dataflows, …get created and tweaked every day. Whoa, things must be going great if we have so many things happening every day! Right?

And yet, as the usage skyrockets in our organization, it's crucial to keep a solid oversight of the artifacts and activities generated by our colleagues. All too often, organizations have procedures, governance models, methodologies, and more in place, without having a structural way of making sure it actually works for the business processes. Enabling the business to make their decision on usage information for their artifacts will assist them in making informed decisions. Making sure this information gets to Data Stewards (workspace owners) is often left untouched, as there's no ready to go solution out there.

This chat will focus on a Self-Service Power BI model and report, where users can follow up on activities performed on artifacts in their zone of control.

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Benni De Jagere is a Program Manager in the Power BI Customer Advisory Team at Microsoft. On a daily basis he turns (large amounts) of coffee into insights for customers, and references witty British comedy, lame dad jokes, and obscure facts way too often. Overly enthusiastic about anything data related, he’s trying hard to keep up with all things new and shiny. Loving (almost) every day of it, he’s fascinated by the value of data, sometimes flabbergasted by the lack of awareness, and intrigued by the endless possibilities whilst discovering new ways of looking at data. He thrives on unfolding new insights for customers whilst using an open and transparent communication.

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