(Livestream Replay) Auto-magically Checking For Broken Visuals in Power BI - with John Kerski

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A.K.A - Avoiding the "Grey Box of Death!"

Have you ever updated a semantic model/dataset and didn't realize it broke a visual in a Power BI report? Have you ever seen that "grey box of death" (or your customers call you about it) after making an update to Power BI? In this session, I demonstrate a way to combine Microsoft Playwright and Azure DevOps to automatically test for broken visuals and notify you about those issues.

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John leverages his 10+ years of technical and government leadership experience to help Federal Agencies, and private sector clients utilize Microsoft products to their fullest potential. His certifications with Microsoft products offers customers a high rate of return when looking to invest in Microsoft solutions.

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(Livestream Replay) Introducing EDITable - for Easy Master Data Entry into Power BI & Fabric - with Gopal

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EDITable by Lumel is a no-code Live Write-Back Application that will allow business users to create and maintain their Master Tables and Flat Tables primarily used for Reporting and Planning Applications with full governance, audit, and approval workflow.

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Gopal Krishnamurthy is the Founder/CEO of Lumel. Lumel is Looking Forward to Disrupting Data & Analytics space with No Code Integrated Platform that will eliminate application silos caused by the diverse needs of business users (Reporting, Visualizations, Story Telling, Analysis (Drill-Down, Pivot), Planning, Simulations, Collaboration and Write-back).

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(Livestream Replay) Practical Azure Databricks for Power BI - with Alex Barbeau

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Are you working with Power BI, and your organization is using Azure Databricks, but you don't know where or how to start using an Open Data Lakehouse? In this demo focused presentation, Alex Barbeau will show practical tips and tricks for Power BI admins and developers to get started and succeed in using Databricks. From how to login to Databricks, the differences in Warehouse types, how to interact with the Hive Catalog and Unity Catalog, you'll leave this presentation with the information you need to get started on Databricks from Power BI.

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Alex Barbeau is a Data Engineering Group Manager at Avanade, and is based in Minneapolis. He started working with Power Pivot back in 2013, before pivoting to Power BI and Data Engineering in Azure. He has worked on multiple multi-billion row Power BI semantic layers, in industries spanning financial services, advertising, retail and CPG, and manufacturing, using Azure Synapse, Azure Databricks, and Snowflake on Azure. He was awarded the Fast Track Recognized Solution Architect award for Power BI in 2022 & 2023 by Microsoft, and is a Databricks Champion, recognized by Databricks.

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(Livestream Replay) Demystifying Fabric's SQL Architecture & Best Practices - with Bogdan Crivat

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Join Microsoft Azure's Corporate Vice-President (VP) Bogdan Crivat and I for this special livestream where we'll do a deep dive into the engineering behind the SQL architecture in Fabric, and how it's both similar and different from the SQL architecture you'd find in various Azure SQL databases. Plus he'll also demo and discuss some best practices for implementation of both Fabric Data Warehouses and Lakehouses. Tune in to learn more!

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Passioned about advanced analytics, machine learning, in-memory databases and parallel computing. His background is in Mathematics and Computer Science. Bogdan received a degree in Computer Science at University of Bucharest (1997) and a PhD degree from Universitatea Transilvania of Brasov, Romania (2011). He is also the author or co-author of 13 patents (and a number of pending applications), mostly in the areas of data mining, predictive analytics and in-memory analytics.

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