(Livestream Replay) Upgrading Power BI Architecture - Sharing, Gov, & Admin - with Steve Campbell

DESCRIPTION 📄

This stream is for users who want to learn to enhance Power BI models for enterprise deployment, creating sharing strategies, and ensuring security. During this session, you will learn valuable tools and skills to create, configure, and manage enterprise-grade Power BI models and take your organization's data analytics to the next level.

Discussions will include:

- Enhancing the Model Design
- Adding Enterprise-Grade Model Features
- Deploying & Managing Content
- Maintaining the Model Lifecycle
- Sharing Power BI Content
- Enforcing Permissions & Security

GUEST BIO 👤

I run the Data Analytics team for Cognizant MBG in the EMEA region. I help my team of analysts, developers, and architects deliver successful data projects to some of the largest companies.

I am a Power BI and Excel trainer. I regularly train around the world and used to run the Power BI class for University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Additionally, I’m a Data Platform MVP. I love to blog on PowerBI.tips, present globally at conferences, and co-run the Brew City Power Platform user group.

Currently works as Product Manager at the Power BI product team, focusing on Pro-BI experiences.

(Livestream Replay) Power BI CI/CD, the REST API, and VSCode - with Gerhard Brueckl

DESCRIPTION 📄

Since its release in 2015, Power BI has quickly become one of the major and widest spread reporting tools on the market. It is used for self-service BI, team BI and also enterprise BI solution of which especially the latest has very specific requirements when it comes to managing deployments and releases. We would like to discuss the typical use-cases and problems that you will encounter when trying to use the traditional approaches for CI/CD and release management with Power BI.

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Gerhard is a data solution architect at Paiqo GmbH in Austria. He has been working with Microsoft Data & BI tools for over 15 years and is still continuously learning. In all those years he was always shared his knowledge with the community in forums, his personal blog or when speaking at conferences or user groups. Over the last years he focused more on big data and cloud processing in Microsoft Azure but always maintained the link to his roots in BI.

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(Livestream Replay) Introducing TMDL for Power BI! - with Mathias Thierbach

ABSTRACT 📄

An early look at the Tabular Model Definition Language (TMDL), soon to be released by Microsoft as a public preview as part of the Tabular Object Model (TOM) libraries. TMDL was first presented at SQLBits in March 2023 and is the first of several new innovations and tools targeting the needs of Power BI Pro Developers.

It consists of new declarative format for tabular models, designed for readability and editability, as well as a standardized folder structure for those files (similar to tabular Editor's "Save-to-folder" format), enabling collaborative workflows. Mathias has implemented TMDL as part of the Power BI Contributor Program. He will present the key aspects of the language as well as its main benefits.

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Mathias is a Data Platform MVP and Head of Finance Systems at YouGov in London. He cares deeply about mature enterprise-grade development and delivery patterns and practices for Power BI. To that end, he has developed pbi-tools, which was released as an open source tool in October 2021. Furthermore,

Mathias has presented his learnings and best practices around Power BI DataOps, CI/CD, and Deployment Automation, but also talks on the organizational and managerial aspects of running a successful Poewr BI team at several international conferences and many user groups.

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(Livestream Replay) Report/Dataset Lifecycle Management for Power BI with Greg Baldini

ABSTRACT 📄

Everyone is familiar with the NASA countdown. T-minus-10, 9, 8... Anyone who has ever built a Power BI report knows how to publish that report. But ground control has a lot of work to do after liftoff. And a Power BI pro's work does not stop after they hit the 'Publish' button. The name for that work is operations. As Power BI matures, it is critical that we spend time and effort on operations. This work comprises monitoring, maintenance, user support, ongoing development, and change management among other things. Let's kick start the conversation around Power BI operations:
• What to do
• Out of the box features
• Tools you can build and buy to support operations in your organization

GUEST BIO 👤

He slices! He dices! When it comes to Power BI, Greg Baldini does it all, and he is here to show you how to, too!
Co-founder of Argus PBI, Greg has a decade of experience with DAX, Tabular, and the Power BI family of tools. His career has been spent in solving hard problems for clients and seeking deep understanding of the fundamentals of data analysis.

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