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(Livestream Replay) Uncovering Secrets and Mysteries in your Power BI Tenant - with Benni De Jagere

Microsoft Power BI is all the rage, with enterprise and user adoption soaring year after year. New users get onboarded, reports, models, dashboards, dataflows, …get created and tweaked every day. Whoa, things must be going great if we have so many things happening every day! Right?

And yet, as the usage skyrockets in our organization, it's crucial to keep a solid oversight of the artifacts and activities generated by our colleagues. All too often, organizations have procedures, governance models, methodologies, and more in place, without having a structural way of making sure it actually works for the business processes. Enabling the business to make their decision on usage information for their artifacts will assist them in making informed decisions. Making sure this information gets to Data Stewards (workspace owners) is often left untouched, as there's no ready to go solution out there.

This chat will focus on a Self-Service Power BI model and report, where users can follow up on activities performed on artifacts in their zone of control.

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Benni De Jagere is a Program Manager in the Power BI Customer Advisory Team at Microsoft. On a daily basis he turns (large amounts) of coffee into insights for customers, and references witty British comedy, lame dad jokes, and obscure facts way too often. Overly enthusiastic about anything data related, he’s trying hard to keep up with all things new and shiny. Loving (almost) every day of it, he’s fascinated by the value of data, sometimes flabbergasted by the lack of awareness, and intrigued by the endless possibilities whilst discovering new ways of looking at data. He thrives on unfolding new insights for customers whilst using an open and transparent communication.

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(Livestream Replay) Starting your journey with Power BI - with Gaston Cruz

In this session we are going to cover how to start your journey with Power BI:

  • Learning (where? Courses? Learning paths?) // How we started?

  • Switching careers // (In my case from financial background)

  • Community engagements // User Groups (Global) – Conferences – Meetups – Livestreams -- Options within the Power BI framework (Admin, Visualization, Dev, Modeling, Automation) // A little bit of personas/teams involved in an Enterprise Deployment with Power BI

  • Tools // Dax-Studio / Vertipaq Analyzer / Tabular Editor / PowerBIHelper / Documenter & more…

  • What’s next… (Dataplatform framework / PowerPlatform apps / AI)

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(Livestream Replay) Driving a Data Culture with Power BI - with Tommy Puglia

There are many buzz words around Power BI Adoption, and none are as hard to measure as Data Culture. What does it mean to first have a data culture, but more importantly what does it mean to do the right things to strive for a healthy data culture?

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(Livestream Replay) The Skills Your Power BI Team Needs to Succeed - with Ed Hansberry

What does it mean to implement Power BI in your organization? Who is on the Power BI Team, and what skills do they need? This goes beyond report authoring. It is an organizational initiative!

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My background is as a CPA and have spent most of my career in financial and accounting related positions. I am an experienced Controller with a demonstrated history of working in the consumer goods industry. Skilled in Budgeting, Operations Management, Consumer Products, Business Development, and Strategic Planning. I have a Microsoft Certification using Power BI (MCSA BI Reporting), and am technically proficient with in Microsoft Power BI tools using Data Analysis Expressions (DAX), data modeling, Power Query/M Language, Power Pivot, DAX Studio, and Microsoft Excel. Strong accounting professional with a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) focused in Accounting and Business/Management from Lipscomb University.

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