(Livestream Replay) Making The Most Out of The Power Platform - with Nicky van Vroenhoven

ABSTRACT 📄

Have you always wanted to edit your data in Power BI, like in Excel?
Do you want (some of) your users to be able to refresh the Power BI dataset behind a report?
Do you want to refresh your Power BI dataset as soon as the connected dataflow is refreshed?
Now you can! With a combination of Power BI, Power Apps and Power Automate.
In this live demo session I will demonstrate the Microsoft Power Platform products working together to create easy, usable, and interactive data solutions.

GUEST BIO 👤

Nicky van Vroenhoven is a BI professional focused at the Microsoft stack and a Data Platform MVP. He mainly works with Power BI, Power Platform and T-SQL. Nicky started working with SQL Server and SSIS 2005 in the DWH space, and later moved from Power Pivot to Power BI. After working 10 years in BI-consultancy jobs in several industries and companies, he worked for 5 years as a Power BI Administrator at a wealth management bank, and he is currently working as Unit Lead Power BI at Powerdobs in The Netherlands.

Nicky has spoken at several User Groups, SQL Saturday Events, the Power BI World Tour and SQLBits. In addition he enjoys tweeting and blogging about topics like Power BI and Power Platform at his website below.

In his spare time Nicky like's to go running, play chess or try to improve his Rubik's cube record. He is also a husband, father of 3 and a (former) ballroom dancer!

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(Livestream Replay) Power BI & Power Automate: Increase Your Productivity - with Ed Hansberry

In this session Ed Hansberry will walk you through some common use cases in Power BI that can best be handled using its teammate in the Power Platform, Power Automate. By creating some basic flows, you can let end-users refresh reports right from the report, customize scheduled refreshes, automate the sending of emails to clients, customers, vendors, etc. You are only limited by your imagination!

GUEST BIO 👤

Ed Hansberry is a Certified Public Accountant that decided working with data was more interesting than making journal entries. He has experience in supply chain for consumer products goods, which involves forecasting for production and sales. Most of his data analysis career involved using Microsoft Access as a backend for Excel until the early 2010's when tools like Power Query, Power Pivot, and ultimately, Power BI came out. In 2020, he was given the Microsoft MVP award for Data Platform mostly for his work in the Power BI Community forum. Now he works in Power BI and related technologies for a living at P3 Adaptive as a principal consultant.

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(Livestream Replay) Microsoft Power Platform Integration - Chuck Sterling

Hang out with us as Charles (Chuck) Sterling and I talk about the Power Platform!

TOPIC DESCRIPTION

While you are probably already familiar with Power BI, Power Apps and Microsoft Flow; you may not know that Microsoft is bringing these tools together into a unified brand called: the Microsoft Power platform. In this session Microsoft Senior Program Manager, Charles Sterling will give an all demo introduction to these products AND how you can use these products together with other offerings such as their new database engine called Common Data Service for Apps and Microsoft Forms to create very sophisticated “no code/low code” solutions for Business Analysts and citizen developers.

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