(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) 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) Implementing Proper Version Control in Power BI! - with Steve Campbell

In this session, we will explore different techniques for version control in Power BI. This is an important concept in software development, often overlooked by business users. We will explore options for different size models, thin report files and advantages of different techniques.

• What is git, DevOps and version control?

• Learn how multiple users can work on shared files

• Learn how to safely edit files, see versions and changes or roll back changes if something goes wrong

• Explore Microsoft recommendations, different options and their pros, cons and price

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For my job, I lead the Power BI team for Cognizant MBG in the UK. Outside of this I love to blog on PowerBI.tips, present at conferences and webinars, and co-run the Brew City Power Platform user group. I love learning about data and sharing what I’ve learned. I also used to teach Power BI at the university in Milwaukee. I’m a Data Platform MVP and an MCT (Microsoft Certified Trainer) – it’s a fantastic community and I recommend being a part of it!

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(Livestream Replay) Using Power BI to Monitor your Azure Data Platform - with Dave Ruijter

Hang out with us as Dave Ruijter explains and demonstrates how to develop a Power BI monitoring solution for your Azure Data Platform. You can configure your Azure resources to send tons of metrics and logs to Azure Log Analytics, but how do you get that data in Power BI and transform it into a useful report? Let’s see how!

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Dave Ruijter is a Data Platform MVP from the Netherlands, and he is a public speaker and consultant. His aim is to help organizations realize the full potential of the Azure cloud and the Microsoft Power Platform. He brings a decade’s worth of experience to the table and is a passionate Power BI evangelist, eager to share his knowledge and experiences from the field.

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