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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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(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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(Livestream Replay) How to Start Your Power BI Career on the Right Foot (By Specializing!)

Your Grandma was right! You cannot please everyone. When you go out there and wave your flag as a Power BI Professional, that's exactly what you are trying to do. And it doesn't work. Either you get no results or have to work really hard for every inch of progress. The problem is that most professionals either miss or mess-up the first crucial step of their Power BI Career - niching down! In this session we'd talk about:

  • Why niching down is the crucial first step towards a successful Power BI Career

  • How you can come up with the niche that you should focus on

  • Address some of the fears you may have about niching down (a classic one is: "Oh, but I don't want to miss out on all the other opportunities out there by niching down")

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If you are searching for a more meaningful work life as a Power BI Consultant ➔ Where you do what you love, create an impact by helping others and create a life of freedom for yourself ➔ Then Avi is dedicated in helping you achieve those goals. Hint: The classic wisdom of "Learning More" and "Working Hard" actually does NOT help you get to these goals. Avi leads a five-step program to creating successful Power BI Consultants, starting with the first step...you guessed it ;-) "Niching Down"

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Posted on June 18, 2021 and filed under Livestreams, Topics & Discussion.