(Livestream Replay) Power BI Storage Modes in Microsoft Fabric - with Phil Seamark

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A review of semantic model storage modes available today in Microsoft Fabric. In particular, let's look at the new Direct Lake storage mode and help understand how this compares with Import and Direct Query, and when you might use each.

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Phil works for Microsoft on the Fabric Customer Advisory Team (CAT) as a DAX and Data Modelling specialist.

As part of this role, he helps global enterprise customers to optimize and tune large data models to perform their best under heavy load.

Phil has over 30 years of experience in I.T. with most of that time building solutions in business intelligence and advanced analytics.

(Livestream Replay) Introducing PBIR Report Format for Power BI - with Rui Romano & Eeshan Shah

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Discover the new PBIR report format for Power BI project (PBIP) files and developer mode (TMDL) in Power BI desktop!

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Rui is an experienced Microsoft Professional with a deep passion for data and analytics. He has spent the last decade helping companies make better data-driven decisions and is known for his innovative and practical solutions to complex problems. Currently works as a Product Manager at Microsoft on the Power BI product team, focusing on Pro-BI experiences.

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A principal software engineer and architect at Microsoft working on Power BI. He graduated from Virginia Tech in 2013 and started full time at Microsoft shortly after. He's been a software engineer on the Power BI team since 2015 - mostly on the reporting side. Outside of work he spends his time either cooking, baking, or playing video games.

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(Livestream Replay) Introducing EDITable - for Easy Master Data Entry into Power BI & Fabric - with Gopal

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EDITable by Lumel is a no-code Live Write-Back Application that will allow business users to create and maintain their Master Tables and Flat Tables primarily used for Reporting and Planning Applications with full governance, audit, and approval workflow.

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Gopal Krishnamurthy is the Founder/CEO of Lumel. Lumel is Looking Forward to Disrupting Data & Analytics space with No Code Integrated Platform that will eliminate application silos caused by the diverse needs of business users (Reporting, Visualizations, Story Telling, Analysis (Drill-Down, Pivot), Planning, Simulations, Collaboration and Write-back).

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(Livestream Replay) Practical Azure Databricks for Power BI - with Alex Barbeau

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Are you working with Power BI, and your organization is using Azure Databricks, but you don't know where or how to start using an Open Data Lakehouse? In this demo focused presentation, Alex Barbeau will show practical tips and tricks for Power BI admins and developers to get started and succeed in using Databricks. From how to login to Databricks, the differences in Warehouse types, how to interact with the Hive Catalog and Unity Catalog, you'll leave this presentation with the information you need to get started on Databricks from Power BI.

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Alex Barbeau is a Data Engineering Group Manager at Avanade, and is based in Minneapolis. He started working with Power Pivot back in 2013, before pivoting to Power BI and Data Engineering in Azure. He has worked on multiple multi-billion row Power BI semantic layers, in industries spanning financial services, advertising, retail and CPG, and manufacturing, using Azure Synapse, Azure Databricks, and Snowflake on Azure. He was awarded the Fast Track Recognized Solution Architect award for Power BI in 2022 & 2023 by Microsoft, and is a Databricks Champion, recognized by Databricks.

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