BIFocal - Clarifying Business Intelligence
276 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsPodcast by John White & Jason Himmelstein
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Episode 224 - Power BI April 2022 Feature Summary
May 16, 2022 03:15 - 27 minutes - 25.4 MBThis is episode 224 recorded live at 365EduCon in Seattle on May 13th, 2022 where John & Jason go over the April 2022 Power BI updates and an update on the state of BIFocal.show & it's hosts. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Episode 223 - Interview with Laura Rogers
April 12, 2022 00:00 - 24 minutes - 22.4 MBThis is episode 223 recorded on April 6th, 2022 where John & Jason talk to Laura Rogers, Microsoft MVP and CEO of IWMentor.com, about the role of training in the information worker space, her approach to helping people learn Power Apps, and her weekly YouTube live show, Power Hour. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Episode 222 - Power BI March 2022 Feature Summary
March 23, 2022 19:02 - 33 minutes - 30.5 MBThis is episode 222 recorded on March 22nd, 2022 where John & Jason go over the March 2022 Power BI updates including Error Bars, Azure Maps visual getting to parity with Bing Maps visual, and Quickly create reports from SharePoint document libraries. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Episode 221 - Deep dive on Azure Data Explorer
March 15, 2022 00:00 - 27 minutes - 25.1 MBThis is episode 221 recorded on March 10th, 2022 where John & Jason talk about the state of the world & do a deep dive on the work John has been doing with Azure Data Explorer, also known as Kusto. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Episode 220 - Power BI February 2022 Feature Summary
March 02, 2022 00:00 - 34 minutes - 31.8 MBThis is episode 220 recorded on February 24th, 2022 where John & Jason go over the February 2022 Power BI updates including new mobile formatting options, Dynamic M Query Parameters now supports SQL Server, Download .pbix improvements, and more. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Episode 219 - Exploring the Power BI Community with Kelly Kaye
February 25, 2022 00:00 - 30 minutes - 28.2 MBThis is episode 219 recorded on February 18th, 2022 where John & Jason talk to Kelly Kaye, Community Program Manager for Power BI about a whole host of community related topics including diversity, opportunity, and a new live Power BI community show For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Episode 218 - Power BI 2022 release wave 1 plan
February 01, 2022 00:00 - 49 minutes - 45.4 MBThis is episode 218 recorded on January 28th, 2022 where John & Jason review the Microsoft Power BI 2022 release wave 1 plan that covers the roadmap from April to September of 2022. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Episode 217 - Power BI 2021 Year in Review
January 05, 2022 00:00 - 59 minutes - 54.4 MBThis is episode 217 recorded on December 23rd, 2021 where John & Jason do a year in review for all things Power BI in 2021, review their wins & losses with their 2021 predictions, and prognosticate about what they see happening in 2022. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Episode 216 - Power BI December 2021 Feature Summary
December 28, 2021 14:27 - 30 minutes - 28.3 MBThis is episode 216 recorded on December 22nd, 2021 where John & Jason go over the December 2021 Power BI updates including Sparklines in Table & Matrix visuals, New Format Pane updates, Allow sharing links to include your changes to the report, and Announcing Public Preview of Hybrid Tables in Power BI Premium. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Episode 215 - Firing on all Synapses with Kim Manis
December 20, 2021 00:00 - 32 minutes - 29.8 MBThis is episode 215 recorded on December 17th, 2021 where John & Jason talk to Kim Manis, Director of Product for Azure Synapse. Kim fills us in on what Synapses is, exactly, why it should matter to Power BI users, and shares her vision on the future of both Synapse and Power BI. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Episode 214 - Power BI News from Las Vegas
December 18, 2021 02:41 - 16 minutes - 14.8 MBThis is episode 214 recorded on December 7th, 2021 where John & Jason discuss the news in the Power BI space such as Power BI Streaming Dataflows November Update, Capacity settings for datasets are now in Power BI Premium Gen2, and talk about the past couple of weeks in the return to in person conferences. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Episode 212 - Power BI November 2021 Feature Summary - part 2
November 24, 2021 01:21 - 24.6 MBThis is episode 213, part 2 of 2, recorded on November 16th, 2021 where John & Jason go over the November 2021 Power BI updates including the new connectors for Azure Synapse Analytics and Google Sheets, Datasets hub improvements, and Support embedding a Power BI report that contains a paginated report visual. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Episode 213 - Power BI November 2021 Feature Summary - part 2
November 24, 2021 01:21 - 26 minutes - 24.6 MBThis is episode 213, part 2 of 2, recorded on November 16th, 2021 where John & Jason go over the November 2021 Power BI updates including the new connectors for Azure Synapse Analytics and Google Sheets, Datasets hub improvements, and Support embedding a Power BI report that contains a paginated report visual. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Episode 212 - Power BI November 2021 Feature Summary - part 1
November 17, 2021 00:00 - 24 minutes - 22.8 MBThis is episode 212 recorded on November 16th, 2021 where John & Jason go over the November 2021 Power BI updates including the New Format Pane, Page & Bookmark Navigators, Sort Legend, and the new Visual Scorecard from Power BI Goals. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Episode 211 - Interview with Shane Young
November 12, 2021 00:00 - 39 minutes - 36.1 MBThis is episode 211 recorded on November 10th, 2021 where John & Jason talk Shane Young, Principal Consultant at PowerApps911, Power Apps MVP, and YouTube Sensation, about Microsoft Power Apps, Microsoft Dataverse, and some of the announcements made at Microsoft Ignite around the Power Platform stack. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Episode 210 - Power BI News Update 210 - Microsoft Ignite Fall 2021 News
November 06, 2021 00:35 - 36 minutes - 33.4 MBThis is episode 210 recorded on November 3rd, 2021 where John & Jason talk about the latest news announced at and around Microsoft Ignite Fall 2021 including Azure Chaos Studio, Power BI Teams App goes GA, and Hybrid tables - coming "this year". For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Episode 209 - Real chat about Microsoft Ignite Fall 2021
October 27, 2021 04:40 - 29 minutes - 26.7 MBThis is episode 209 recorded on October 25th, 2021 where John & Jason share their views on the upcoming Microsoft Ignite 2021 Conference and the state of remote conferences in General. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Episode 208 - Power BI October 2021 Feature Summary
October 19, 2021 00:00 - 36 minutes - 32.9 MBThis is episode 208 recorded on October 14th, 2021 where John & Jason go over the October 2021 Power BI updates including Heat map layer – Azure Maps Visual, improvements to Metamodels, ODBC support for Paginated Reports, and a call back to the September 2021 service update hidden feature. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Power BI News Update 207 - Power BI News Update
October 05, 2021 00:00 - 27 minutes - 25.4 MBThis is episode 207 recorded on October 2nd, 2021 where John & Jason catch up on the September 2021 news such as a Preview Update to the Export Power BI report to file API, Power BI Embedded Analytics Playground Updates, and A New Admin API to determine who has access to what in now in Public Preview. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Episode 206 - Power BI September 2021 Feature Summary
September 28, 2021 00:00 - 42 minutes - 38.6 MBThis is episode 206 recorded on September 23rd, 2021 where John & Jason go over the September 2021 Power BI updates including New formatting options for buttons, Insights is now in preview, Power BI Goals gets automated status rules, and a new Paginated Report Builder. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Episode 205 - Interview with Patrick LeBlanc
September 22, 2021 00:32 - 35 minutes - 32.3 MBThis is episode 205 recorded on September 17th, 2021 where John & Jason talk to Patrick LeBlanc, one of those Guy in a Cube guys and the Chief Technical Evangelist for Power BI at Microsoft, about his new role, the Community, and what has him excited in the Analytics space. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Episode 204 - Power BI News Update
September 09, 2021 00:00 - 30 minutes - 27.6 MBThis is episode 204 recorded on September 3rd, 2021 where John & Jason catch up on the August 2021 news such as the new Premium Metrics App, the new preview of Automatic Aggregations, and refresh history for changes made through the XMLA endpoint. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Episode 203 - Power BI August 2021 Feature Summary
September 02, 2021 08:58 - 30 minutes - 27.7 MBThis is episode 203 recorded on August 27th, 2021 where John & Jason go over the August 2021 Power BI updates, including Default sensitivity label policy in Power BI desktop, Leverage automatic aggregations to enhance performance over DirectQuery datasets, Power BI REST API support for DAX Queries in preview, and Detailed historical activity information for Premium datasets. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Episode 202 - Power BI News update
August 11, 2021 00:00 - 28 minutes - 25.9 MBThis is episode 202 recorded on August 6th, 2021 where John & Jason review some Power BI news from the past few weeks such as Connected PivotTable refresh in Excel for the web is now 100% available to Office tenants, Updated Timeline and milestones for Premium Gen2 General Availability, and lots of cool new developer stuff. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Episode 201 - Power BI July 2021 Feature Summary
August 06, 2021 00:00 - 31 minutes - 29 MBThis is episode 201 recorded on July 23rd, 2021 where John & Jason go over the July 2021 Power BI updates, including Streaming Dataflows and lots of cool stuff going GA. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Episode 200 - Live from SPFest Chicago 2021
August 02, 2021 00:00 - 31 minutes - 28.7 MBThis is episode 200 recorded on July 30th, 2021 where John & Jason talk to Mike Fitzmaurice, Liz Sundet, and Jay Leask on the floor of the SPFest Chicago 2021 conference about being back to live events finally, Business Intelligence topics, and much more. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Episode 199 - Microsoft Power Platform_ 2021 release wave 2 plan
July 20, 2021 21:56 - 44 minutes - 40.8 MBThis is episode 199 recorded on July 16th, 2021 where John & Jason talk to the Microsoft Power Platform: 2021 release wave 2 plan & some other bits and bobs. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Episode 198 - Interview with Treb Gatte
July 07, 2021 00:44 - 34 minutes - 31.8 MBThis is episode 198 recorded on June 28th, 2021 where John & Jason talk to Treb Gatte, CEO of Marquee Insights & Data Platform MVP, about the new Power BI Goals feature & his experiences helping companies with their OKRs. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Episode 197 - Power BI June 2021 Feature Summary
July 01, 2021 00:00 - 29 minutes - 26.9 MBThis is episode 197 recorded on June 30th, 2021 where John & Jason go over the June Power BI updates, including the new Paginated report visual, Improvements to Power BI dynamic M parameters, new dataset discoverability options, and more. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Episode 196 - June News Round-up
June 22, 2021 00:00 - 30 minutes - 27.9 MBThis is episode 196 recorded on June 18th, 2021 where John & Jason recap the recent Power BI news like updates to the Power Platform Admin Center, Dataflow notifications to multiple people, Power BI Report Builder updates, and an updated timeline for the upgrade of all Power BI Workspaces to v2. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Episode 195 - Quickly create reports from SharePoint lists
June 15, 2021 00:00 - 30 minutes - 27.5 MBThis is episode 195 recorded on June 11th, 2021 where John & Jason share their thoughts on the newly released feature in SharePoint Online from the Power BI team called "Quickly create reports from SharePoint lists". For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Episode 194 - Interview with Andrew Brust
June 10, 2021 14:25 - 33 minutes - 30.4 MBThis is episode 194 recorded on June 4th, 2021 where John & Jason about to Andrew Brust, Microsoft MVP & Regional Director, ZDNet contributor and much more, the Microsoft data eco-system including Azure Synapse Analytics, Power BI and the data world in general.
Episode 193 - Interview with Laura Graham-Brown
June 03, 2021 00:13 - 35 minutes - 32.5 MBThis is episode 193 recorded on May 21st, 2021 where John & Jason about to Laura Graham-Brown, UK based BizApps MVP & trainer extraordinaire, about SharePoint, Power Platform, and the Microsoft Community. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Episode 192 - Power BI May 2021 Feature Summary
May 19, 2021 01:18 - 40 minutes - 36.7 MBThis is episode 192 recorded on May 14th, 2021 where John & Jason about the Power BI May 2021 Feature Summary including the Modern visual tooltips, Quickly create reports from SharePoint lists, and Share and Collaborate in Excel for the web connected to Power BI. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Episode 191 - Interview with Miguel Llopis
May 13, 2021 01:05 - 36 minutes - 33.4 MBThis is episode 191 recorded on May 7th, 2021 where John & Jason interview Miguel Llopis, Principal Program Manager for Power Query and Dataflows about the seismic shifts in the Power Query world, the new community resources for Power Query, and some future thinking in his space. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Episode 190 - Interview with Arun Ulag
May 07, 2021 00:16 - 38 minutes - 34.9 MBThis is episode 190 recorded on May 5th, 2021 where John & Jason interview Arun Ulag, General Manager of Power BI Engineering at Microsoft, about all things Power BI from Microsoft Business Applications Summit 2021. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Episode 189 - Power BI April 2021 Feature Summary
April 27, 2021 17:41 - 35 minutes - 32.6 MBThis is episode 18 recorded on April 21st, 2021 where John & Jason talk about the Power BI April 2021 Feature Summary including Power Automate for Power BI, New & Improved Shapes, Easy Report Sharing options, and the Microsoft Charticulator visual. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Episode 188 - Interview with Heather Newman
April 20, 2021 00:00 - 56 minutes - 51.2 MBThis is episode 188 recorded on April 16th, 2021 where John & Jason to Heather Newman, Principle Program Manager at Microsoft for Dynamics 365 & Power Platform Community Success, about her new role at Microsoft and all the great stuff they are doing to support and promote the Community. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Episode 187 - Interview with Stephanie Bruno
April 16, 2021 03:05 - 42 minutes - 38.5 MBThis is episode 187 recorded on April 13th, 2021 where John & Jason to Stephanie Bruno, Associate Director of Informatics at Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation & Data Platform MVP, about the Power BI Community, her work with the Foundation, The Data-Witches blog, and the changes coming in her world. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Episode 186 - Community News
April 06, 2021 00:00 - 25 minutes - 23.4 MBThis is episode 186 recorded on April 5th, 2021 where John & Jason about the news from around the Power BI & Collaboration community, reflecting on MVP Summit, as well as a discussion on Premium per User now being GA. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Episode 185 - Power BI News Updates
March 30, 2021 23:45 - 34 minutes - 31.3 MBThis is episode 185 recorded on March 26th, 2021 where John & Jason about the news from March including VNet Connectivity for PBI Datasets, ODBC support available for Paginated Reports in public preview, and Power BI as a superset of Azure Analysis Services. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Episode 184 - Power BI March 2021 Feature Summary
March 26, 2021 01:03 - 37 minutes - 34.2 MBThis is episode 184 recorded on March 24th, 2021 where John & Jason about the Power BI March 2021 Feature Summary including the Advanced Data Selection in Azure Maps Visual, External Tools integration in Desktop is now generally available, and a new dataset details view. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Episode 183 - Whither Power Pivot
March 15, 2021 01:16 - 32 minutes - 29.5 MBThis is episode 183 recorded on March 12th, 2021 where John & Jason about John's click bait blog post where he talks about the validity of continuing to use Power Pivot in Excel. Jason takes the count point. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Episode 182 - Premium per User with Chris Finlan
March 09, 2021 00:00 - 36 minutes - 33.4 MBThis is episode 182 recorded on March 4, 2021 where John & Jason talk to Microsoft Product Manager Chris Finlan about recent announcements around the Premium per user license, how it came about, and a few other interesting tidbits. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Episode 181 - Power BI February 2021 Feature Summary
March 01, 2021 04:25 - 35 minutes - 32.6 MBThis is episode 181 recorded on February 26th, 2021 where John & Jason talk about the Power BI February 2021 Feature Summary including the DirectQuery for PBI datasets and Azure Analysis Services Updates (preview), Model View Updates, New filter operations, and a new color picker. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Episode 180 - Interview with Melissa Coates
February 23, 2021 03:40 - 40 minutes - 37.1 MBThis is episode 180 recorded on February 19th, 2021 where John & Jason talk with Melissa Coates, Data Platform MVP & the owner of Coates Data Strategies, about all things Power BI Governance. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Episode 179 - Best Practices Analyzer in Tabular Editor
February 14, 2021 00:00 - 26 minutes - 24.6 MBThis is episode 179 recorded on February 5th, 2021 where John & Jason deep dive on the Best Practices Analyzer in Tabular Editor, an external tool for Power BI Desktop. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
178 - Power BI 2021 Release Wave 1 Roadmap review
February 08, 2021 03:43 - 40 minutes - 36.5 MBThis is episode 178 recorded on February 5th, 2021 where John & Jason review the recently published Power BI 2021 release wave 1 roadmap. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Episode 177 - Tales From the Real World
January 25, 2021 00:00 - 30 minutes - 28.3 MBThis is episode 177 recorded on January 22nd, 2021 where John & Jason talk about some of their experiences at work with Power BI lately. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show
Episode 176 - Power BI News in 2021
January 12, 2021 00:00 - 32 minutes - 29.3 MBThis is episode 176 recorded on January 8th, 2021 where John & Jason talk about Report Creation in the Power BI Service, the preview of Datasets Hub, and General Availability of the XMLA Read/Write end-point… plus we bring back Ideas.powerbi.com picks for 2021. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show