(Livestream Replay) Let Me Sell You on Power BI Goals - with Tommy Puglia

Quite possibly one of the most underrated features available in the Power BI platform is the new Power BI Goals & Scorecard feature set. Announced and released in 2021, Scorecards can dramatically change the way users view and consume high level metrics in their reports.

However, there are questions on the true impact of scorecards for users. This misunderstanding is due to the lack of knowledge that planning out the story and visuals themselves is the critical piece that will drive the true value for users.

This session focuses on what are goals in the Power BI Service, how to properly plan out a scorecard and goals, and utilizing a Power BI report to create a narrative between the two. In essence, Scorecards when set up properly are the true Dashboard in Power BI.

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• Introduction to the components of a Power BI Scorecard

• Walkthrough of a complete Scorecard and Goal set up

• Utilizing a report to cater to a Scorecard

• Utilizing the potential of Power Automate within goals

• Blue printing a Scorecard for your next report

• Using Scorecards as a Dashboard

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As a Power BI Microsoft MVP Tommy leads the Chicago Power BI User Group & co-hosts the Explicit Measures Podcast, releasing new episodes every Tuesday and Thursday. Tommy is constantly focused on how any report, application, or solution can change and drive behavior. Tommy has been working in Power BI since it was known as Power BI Designer, and responsible for the implementation, adoption, and enhancements of Power BI and the impact it should have. He leads his organization on how data should be integrated, automated, and analyzed in a way that drives business and culture.

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(Livestream Replay) Everything You Need to Know about Power BI Goals - with Treb Gatte

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Do you have a lot of reports but are still searching for answers? Do you really know what you are working toward? If so, we need to talk about Power BI Goals and how they can transform how you approach the question, where are we?

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Treb Gatte is a business intelligence expert with 24 years of experience. Prior to becoming CEO of Marquee Insights, he worked in leadership positions at Microsoft, Starbucks, and Wachovia (now Wells Fargo). He is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP and former Office MVP. Treb lives in the Seattle area with his wife, children and corgi and holds an MBA from Wake Forest University.

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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!

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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) 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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