(Livestream Replay) Power BI CI/CD, the REST API, and VSCode - with Gerhard Brueckl

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Since its release in 2015, Power BI has quickly become one of the major and widest spread reporting tools on the market. It is used for self-service BI, team BI and also enterprise BI solution of which especially the latest has very specific requirements when it comes to managing deployments and releases. We would like to discuss the typical use-cases and problems that you will encounter when trying to use the traditional approaches for CI/CD and release management with Power BI.

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Gerhard is a data solution architect at Paiqo GmbH in Austria. He has been working with Microsoft Data & BI tools for over 15 years and is still continuously learning. In all those years he was always shared his knowledge with the community in forums, his personal blog or when speaking at conferences or user groups. Over the last years he focused more on big data and cloud processing in Microsoft Azure but always maintained the link to his roots in BI.

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[DAX] Dynamic Format Strings WITHOUT Calculation Groups ?!?

Video by: Reid Havens

Learn how to add Dynamic Format Strings for individual [DAX] measures in Power BI! This technique doesn’t require calculation groups or Tabular Editor either, and can be done entirely inside of Power BI desktop.

Side note, if you aren’t using Tabular Editor as a model developer you should be. It’s a fantastic tool for any intermediate to advanced modeling scenarios, and the only way to add calculation groups (today).

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(Livestream Replay) Empower BI Professionals to Do More Using Microsoft Fabric - with Christian Wade

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As the volume and complexity of data continue to increase, organizations are constantly looking to uncover insights in faster ways. Join us to learn about Power BI’s exciting new announcements that enable data professionals to gather insights at blazing fast speeds with Microsoft Fabric.

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As Principal Group Product Manager in the Power BI group, Christian manages a team of program managers responsible for enterprise modeling features across Microsoft's BI product portfolio. He drives product strategy, feature prioritization, planning, design, execution, customer engagement and business results by making Power BI, the most successful BI platform on the planet, even better for the biggest enterprise customers.

Christian is also a renowned public speaker and a regular keynote feature in some of Microsoft’s largest events. Known for awesome demos to engage the audience, drive awareness and usage. Consulting experience driving BI, data warehousing and application development projects for enterprise customers dating back to 1999.

Creator of the BISM Normalizer, a diff & merge tool for Analysis Services tabular models.

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(Livestream Replay) Better Maps in Power BI with ICON MAP - with James Dales

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Have you ever had requirements to do more with maps than you can achieve with the out of the box Power BI visuals? The Icon Map custom visual was created to fill these feature gaps, and enable more advanced capabilities, such as drawing images, lines and polygons on maps. James will walk us through demos showing the features and how to configure them.

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James Dales is the Global Capability Lead for Power BI at Avanade and is a Microsoft FastTrack Recognised Solution Architect. As a Microsoft Data Platform MVP he is the co-leader of the London Power BI user group. In 2019 he became the first member of the Power BI Contributors Program, working alongside the Microsoft engineering team to build new functionality into the product itself. He has a keen interest in spatial analytics and is the author of the Icon Map custom visual.

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