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(Livestream Replay) How the Microsoft Power BI Team Evolves the Platform (with Will Thompson)

Hang out with us as Will Thompson (Microsoft Program Manager) discusses how the Power BI team plans their products evolution! We'll chat about everything from: what it's like being a Microsoft Product Manager (PM), Power BI personas and customer feedback, planning semester roadmaps, integration with other Microsoft products and platforms, integrating Power BI ideas feedback, and more!

GUEST BIO 👤

Will is a self-confessed data geek, working his way through sysadmin and DBA roles before joining Microsoft. He spent 5 years helping customers in the UK implement and get value out of Microsoft’s BI solution. When an opportunity arose to move into product engineering in 2012, he jumped at it and to help translate customer and market requirements into new features as a Program Manager in the Power BI team. Since January 2020 he has led a team of program managers, owning the overall experience for creators of Power BI reports.

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Posted on May 28, 2021 and filed under Livestreams, Topics & Discussion.

(Livestream Replay) ALM Toolkit External Tool - Christian Wade

Hang out with us as Christian Wade walks us through the ALM Toolkit external tool for Power BI desktop. This schema compare tool for Power BI datasets is a fantastic application for lifecycle management (ALM) scenarios.

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(Livestream Replay) Creating an Online Media Presence - with Adam & Patrick

My friends over at Guy in a Cube (GIAC) has been producing YouTube videos for over 6 years. They also have been doing live streams for over a year. Over that time, they have dived into the gear and setups that make this happen. Join us as we talk about online digital content, how you can get started building your brand and leverage the online platforms available to you. While Adam and Patrick are known to have BANANA setups, you don’t need all of that to get started.

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(Livestream Replay) Power BI Sidetools External Tool - Didier Terrien

Come hang out as Didier Terrien and I talk about (Power BI Sidetools). Power BI Sidetools is an innovative external tool offering unique features to improve productivity when developing reports, with an impressive list of features and tools contained within! Features such as: exporting data to Excel, transferring DAX and M formulas to files, viewing DAX and M code in Visual Studio Code, preview DAX measures in auto-generated tables, and more!

DIDIER’S BIO 📄

I worked with data for almost 4 decades in various environments as a developer and project manager. Heavy user of Excel for a long time, I try to move data as much as possible to Power BI since it appeared on the market. Working now as the Group Data Quality Officer in Trescal, my skills cover business and IT areas for the benefit of productivity and quality.

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Posted on April 9, 2021 and filed under External Tools, Power BI, Livestreams, Topics & Discussion, Intermediate.