BIFocal – Clarifying Business Intelligence

This is episode 265 recorded on October 19th, 2023 where John & Jason talk about the Power BI updates for August 2023 including the interactive mobile canvas, changes to the online model editing experience, and GIT support for paginated reports.

This is episode 264 recorded some time in August where John & Jason talk to Heather Cook, Principal PM Manager at Microsoft for Power Platform, where we discuss the upcoming Power Platform Conference, the Microsoft community ecosystem, and learning & upskilling.

This is episode 263 recorded sometime in August where John & Jason talk about the Power BI updates for August 2023 including improvements to on-object interactions, XMLA write support for Direct Lake datasets, and improvements to the PBIP format.

This is episode 262 recorded on July 14th, 2023 where John & Jason talk about the Power BI updates for July 2023 including Smoothed and Leader lines, updates to On-object Interactions & editing your data model in the Power BI Service, and Datasets are coming to Power BI Mobile apps. We also cover some changes to the podcast that we are going to be making in the coming weeks. For show notes please visit http://www.bifocal.show/

This is episode 261 recorded on June 21st, 2023 where Jason talks with Microsoft MVPs & Community rockstars Laura Graham-Brown & Marc Lelijveld about Microsoft Fabric, being back to in person conferences, and the community in general. For show notes please visit http://www.bifocal.show/

This is episode 260 recorded on June 15th, 2023 where John & Jason talk about the Power BI updates for June 2023 including the new card visual, On-Object Interaction updates, admin monitoring, and Power BI Desktop Developer Mode. For show notes please visit http://www.bifocal.show/

This is episode 259 recorded on June 7th, 2023 where John & Jason talk about Microsoft Fabric licensing from a Power BI perspective. We'll talk about Pro licenses, capacity-based licenses, the difference between P and F SKUs, and a whole lot more. For show notes please visit http://www.bifocal.show/

This is episode 258 recorded on June 5th, 2023 where John & Jason review the May 2023 updates to Power BI, and boy, it's a doozey. We cover Microsoft Fabric updates, a whole bunch of GA announcements, data model editing in the service, paginated report drill through, and much more. For show notes please visit http://www.bifocal.show/

This is episode 257 recorded on May 3rd, 2023 where John & Jason talk to Rui Romano, Principal Program Manager for Power BI at Microsoft, about the upcoming advancements for developers using Power BI Developer mode. For show notes please visit http://www.bifocal.show/

This is episode 256 recorded on May 24th, 2023 where John & Jason talk to Gabi Münster, Senior Program Manager on the Fabric CAT Team at Microsoft, about the announcements made at Microsoft Build 2023. For show notes please visit http://www.bifocal.show/

This is episode 255 recorded on April 28th, 2023 where John & Jason talk to Rosie Levasseur, Senior Product Manager for Power BI, all about the on-object feature set and the changes that have and will be made for Power BI Creators. For show notes please visit http://www.bifocal.show/

This is episode 254 recorded on April 14th, 2023 where John & Jason talk to Emily Lisa, Senior Product Manager for Power BI, about the newly announced Public Preview of the "Edit your data model in the Power BI service" feature.

This is episode 253 recorded on April 12th, 2023 where John & Jason talk to Zoe Douglas, Senior Program Manager for Power BI, about Dynamic format strings for measures, the new Apply all slicers and Clear all slicers buttons, and the Optimize Ribbon.

This is episode 252 recorded on April 12, 2023 where John & Jason talk about the Power BI updates for April 2023 including Dynamic format strings for measures, Filters for web created paginated reports, tooltip auto-scale and much more.

This is episode 251 recorded March 24th, 2023 where John & Jason talk about and the recap the news from the past few weeks in the Power BI space including the retirement of Streaming Dataflows, Query parallelism, Scanner API updates, and much more.

This is episode 250 recorded March 14th, 2023 where John & Jason talk about the March 2023 Power BI updates which include the Apply all slicers button, Clear all slicers button, and Optimization presets update, Storytelling in PowerPoint and Power BI org app multiple audiences have gone GA, and the new on-object interaction.

This is episode 249 recorded February 17th, 2023 where Jason talks to Patrick LeBlanc, Principal Program Manager on the Power BI CAT Team at Microsoft & a Guy in a Cube, about the February 2023 Power BI updates which include the Enhanced row-level security editor, Conditional Formatting based on string fields, new DAX functions, and Paginated Reports updates.

This is episode 248 recorded on January 24th, 2023 where John & Jason review the Microsoft Power BI 2023 release wave 1 plan that covers the roadmap from April to September of 2023. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 247 recorded January 20th, 2023 where John & Jason interview Scott Sewell, Principal Program Manager on the CAT Team at Microsoft, about Dataverse, Dynamics 365, and Power BI. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 246 recorded January 9th, 2023 where John & Jason review their wins & losses with their 2022 predictions and prognosticate about what they see happening in 2023. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 245 recorded on January 6th, 2023 where John & Jason do a year in review for all things Power BI in 2022. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 244 recorded December 21st, 2022 where John & Jason talk about the news from November & December in the Power BI space including new cache refresh settings available in Power BI Premium, subscribe to a report with filters applied, Dataset refresh cancellation is now available in Power BI Premium, and more. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 243 recorded December 14th, 2022 where John & Jason talk about the December 2022 Power BI updates which include Slicer type formatting moved to Format Pane, Making it easier to do comparison calculations, and Upcoming changes to the ‘Get Data’ experience in the Power BI Service. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 242 recorded November 23th, 2022 where John & Jason talk about the November 2022 Power BI updates which include New Power BI Color Accent, Create dynamic slicers using field parameters, New way to upload Power BI and Excel files, and Formatted Tables Authoring Experience updates. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 241 recorded November 11th, 2022 where John & Jason talk about the big news from Microsoft about Paginated Reports now being available to Power BI Pro users, Save a copy of a report & Collapse navigation pane in Organizational App, and Improvements to chart sharing and copy as image are coming soon. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 240 recorded November 2nd, 2022 where Jason talks to Mohammad Ali, Principal Group Program Manager for the Creator Experiences in Power BI at Microsoft, about what his team announced at Microsoft Ignite, and his viewpoint on the near term and long-term vision for the future of Power BI. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 239 recorded October 27th, 2022 where John & Jason cover the Power BI related news from the past few weeks including AAD-based filtration for Power BI Datamarts, the Power Query SDK for Visual Studio Code, and Cross-tenant Power BI Dataset Sharing. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 238 recorded October 20th, 2022 where John & Jason go over the October 2022 Power BI updates which include the new experimental Quick Measure Suggestions, Improved PBIX downloading options, and DAX formula editing in the Desktop Model view. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 237 recorded October 6th, 2022 where John & Jason go over the announcements made at Microsoft Ignite 2022 including Explore and interact with Power BI reports directly from OneDrive and SharePoint, Contextual on-object interaction with Power BI visuals, Data model editing in the Power BI Service, more! For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 236 recorded October 6th, 2022 where John & Jason go over the September 2022 Power BI updates which include Conditional formatting for data labels, Cross-Tenant Dataset Sharing, Hierarchical axis by default, and Paginated reports data preview. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 235 recorded September 13th, 2022 where John & Jason talk to Ed Senez, CEO of tyGraph, about the big announcement in his & John's world and about what tyGraph is up to today and moving forward. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 234 recorded August 26th, 2022 where John & Jason talk to Alex Powers, Senior Program Manager on the Power BI CAT Team at Microsoft, about his journey into Power BI, his Power Query everything world view, automating the world, and the awesome Power BI Community. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 233 recorded August 12th, 2022 where John & Jason go over the August 2022 Power BI updates which include conditional formatting for data labels, mobile formatting now supports text box visuals, DAX Editor improvements, and more. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 232 recorded July 18th, 2022 where John & Jason talk about the Microsoft Power Platform: 2022 release wave 2 plan and go over the items specific to Power BI including Query Scale-out, Dataset authoring in the Power BI Service, and Power Query Diagram view in Power BI Desktop. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 231 recorded July 17th, 2022 where John & Jason go over the July 2022 Power BI updates which include Release Notes & Ideas Updates, Error Bars goes GA, Filled Map for Azure Maps visual, a new DAX function called NETWORKDAYS, and connect to Datamarts in preview. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 230 recorded June 28th, 2022 where John & Jason talk to Priya Sathy, Group Program Manager in the Microsoft Intelligence Data Platform & the head of Product Management for Data Warehouse in Power BI, about the new datamarts feature in Power BI that is now in public preview. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 229 recorded June 17th, 2022 where John & Jason go over the June 2022 Power BI updates which include Connect to Datamarts in preview, Power BI Data Story Telling updates, and announcing the Data Hub in Power BI. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 228 recorded June 7th, 2022 where John & Jason review the Power BI news from the past several weeks including Analyze in Excel Workbooks are now saved to OneDrive, the new Known Issues page for Power BI, refresh with the Power BI REST API, and the new Formatted Tables feature in powerbi.com. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 227 recorded May 27th, 2022 where John & Jason talk to Treb Gatte, CEO of Marquee Insights & Data Platform MVP, about the change from Power BI Goals to Power BI metrics and much more. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 226 recorded May 24th, 2022 where John & Jason go over the Power BI announcements from Microsoft Build 2022 such as changing from Power BI Goals to Power BI metrics, new Power BI integration in PowerPoint, and the public preview of datamarts in the Power BI service. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 225 recorded May 17th, 2022 where John & Jason go over the May 2022 Power BI updates which include field parameters, improvements to Power BI subscription management, Canvas zoom, and more. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 224 recorded live at 365EduCon in Seattle on May 13th, 2022 where John & Jason go over the April 2022 Power BI updates and an update on the state of BIFocal.show & it's hosts. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 223 recorded on April 6th, 2022 where John & Jason talk to Laura Rogers, Microsoft MVP and CEO of IWMentor.com, about the role of training in the information worker space, her approach to helping people learn Power Apps, and her weekly YouTube live show, Power Hour. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 222 recorded on March 22nd, 2022 where John & Jason go over the March 2022 Power BI updates including Error Bars, Azure Maps visual getting to parity with Bing Maps visual, and Quickly create reports from SharePoint document libraries. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 221 recorded on March 10th, 2022 where John & Jason talk about the state of the world & do a deep dive on the work John has been doing with Azure Data Explorer, also known as Kusto. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 220 recorded on February 24th, 2022 where John & Jason go over the February 2022 Power BI updates including new mobile formatting options, Dynamic M Query Parameters now supports SQL Server, Download .pbix improvements, and more. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 219 recorded on February 18th, 2022 where John & Jason talk to Kelly Kaye, Community Program Manager for Power BI about a whole host of community related topics including diversity, opportunity, and a new live Power BI community show For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 218 recorded on January 28th, 2022 where John & Jason review the Microsoft Power BI 2022 release wave 1 plan that covers the roadmap from April to September of 2022. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 217 recorded on December 23rd, 2021 where John & Jason do a year in review for all things Power BI in 2021, review their wins & losses with their 2021 predictions, and prognosticate about what they see happening in 2022. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 216 recorded on December 22nd, 2021 where John & Jason go over the December 2021 Power BI updates including Sparklines in Table & Matrix visuals, New Format Pane updates, Allow sharing links to include your changes to the report, and Announcing Public Preview of Hybrid Tables in Power BI Premium. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 215 recorded on December 17th, 2021 where John & Jason talk to Kim Manis, Director of Product for Azure Synapse. Kim fills us in on what Synapses is, exactly, why it should matter to Power BI users, and shares her vision on the future of both Synapse and Power BI. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 214 recorded on December 7th, 2021 where John & Jason discuss the news in the Power BI space such as Power BI Streaming Dataflows November Update, Capacity settings for datasets are now in Power BI Premium Gen2, and talk about the past couple of weeks in the return to in person conferences. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 213, part 2 of 2, recorded on November 16th, 2021 where John & Jason go over the November 2021 Power BI updates including the new connectors for Azure Synapse Analytics and Google Sheets, Datasets hub improvements, and Support embedding a Power BI report that contains a paginated report visual. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 212 recorded on November 16th, 2021 where John & Jason go over the November 2021 Power BI updates including the New Format Pane, Page & Bookmark Navigators, Sort Legend, and the new Visual Scorecard from Power BI Goals. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 211 recorded on November 10th, 2021 where John & Jason talk Shane Young, Principal Consultant at PowerApps911, Power Apps MVP, and YouTube Sensation, about Microsoft Power Apps, Microsoft Dataverse, and some of the announcements made at Microsoft Ignite around the Power Platform stack. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 210 recorded on November 3rd, 2021 where John & Jason talk about the latest news announced at and around Microsoft Ignite Fall 2021 including Azure Chaos Studio, Power BI Teams App goes GA, and Hybrid tables - coming "this year". For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 209 recorded on October 25th, 2021 where John & Jason share their views on the upcoming Microsoft Ignite 2021 Conference and the state of remote conferences in General. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 208 recorded on October 14th, 2021 where John & Jason go over the October 2021 Power BI updates including Heat map layer – Azure Maps Visual, improvements to Metamodels, ODBC support for Paginated Reports, and a call back to the September 2021 service update hidden feature. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 207 recorded on October 2nd, 2021 where John & Jason catch up on the September 2021 news such as a Preview Update to the Export Power BI report to file API, Power BI Embedded Analytics Playground Updates, and A New Admin API to determine who has access to what in now in Public Preview. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 206 recorded on September 23rd, 2021 where John & Jason go over the September 2021 Power BI updates including New formatting options for buttons, Insights is now in preview, Power BI Goals gets automated status rules, and a new Paginated Report Builder. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 205 recorded on September 17th, 2021 where John & Jason talk to Patrick LeBlanc, one of those Guy in a Cube guys and the Chief Technical Evangelist for Power BI at Microsoft, about his new role, the Community, and what has him excited in the Analytics space. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 204 recorded on September 3rd, 2021 where John & Jason catch up on the August 2021 news such as the new Premium Metrics App, the new preview of Automatic Aggregations, and refresh history for changes made through the XMLA endpoint. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 203 recorded on August 27th, 2021 where John & Jason go over the August 2021 Power BI updates, including Default sensitivity label policy in Power BI desktop, Leverage automatic aggregations to enhance performance over DirectQuery datasets, Power BI REST API support for DAX Queries in preview, and Detailed historical activity information for Premium datasets. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 202 recorded on August 6th, 2021 where John & Jason review some Power BI news from the past few weeks such as Connected PivotTable refresh in Excel for the web is now 100% available to Office tenants, Updated Timeline and milestones for Premium Gen2 General Availability, and lots of cool new developer stuff. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 201 recorded on July 23rd, 2021 where John & Jason go over the July 2021 Power BI updates, including Streaming Dataflows and lots of cool stuff going GA. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 200 recorded on July 30th, 2021 where John & Jason talk to Mike Fitzmaurice, Liz Sundet, and Jay Leask on the floor of the SPFest Chicago 2021 conference about being back to live events finally, Business Intelligence topics, and much more. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 199 recorded on July 16th, 2021 where John & Jason talk to the Microsoft Power Platform: 2021 release wave 2 plan & some other bits and bobs. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 198 recorded on June 28th, 2021 where John & Jason talk to Treb Gatte, CEO of Marquee Insights & Data Platform MVP, about the new Power BI Goals feature & his experiences helping companies with their OKRs. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 197 recorded on June 30th, 2021 where John & Jason go over the June Power BI updates, including the new Paginated report visual, Improvements to Power BI dynamic M parameters, new dataset discoverability options, and more. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 196 recorded on June 18th, 2021 where John & Jason recap the recent Power BI news like updates to the Power Platform Admin Center, Dataflow notifications to multiple people, Power BI Report Builder updates, and an updated timeline for the upgrade of all Power BI Workspaces to v2. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 195 recorded on June 11th, 2021 where John & Jason share their thoughts on the newly released feature in SharePoint Online from the Power BI team called "Quickly create reports from SharePoint lists". For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 194 recorded on June 4th, 2021 where John & Jason about to Andrew Brust, Microsoft MVP & Regional Director, ZDNet contributor and much more, the Microsoft data eco-system including Azure Synapse Analytics, Power BI and the data world in general.

This is episode 193 recorded on May 21st, 2021 where John & Jason about to Laura Graham-Brown, UK based BizApps MVP & trainer extraordinaire, about SharePoint, Power Platform, and the Microsoft Community. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 192 recorded on May 14th, 2021 where John & Jason about the Power BI May 2021 Feature Summary including the Modern visual tooltips, Quickly create reports from SharePoint lists, and Share and Collaborate in Excel for the web connected to Power BI. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 191 recorded on May 7th, 2021 where John & Jason interview Miguel Llopis, Principal Program Manager for Power Query and Dataflows about the seismic shifts in the Power Query world, the new community resources for Power Query, and some future thinking in his space. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 190 recorded on May 5th, 2021 where John & Jason interview Arun Ulag, General Manager of Power BI Engineering at Microsoft, about all things Power BI from Microsoft Business Applications Summit 2021. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 18 recorded on April 21st, 2021 where John & Jason talk about the Power BI April 2021 Feature Summary including Power Automate for Power BI, New & Improved Shapes, Easy Report Sharing options, and the Microsoft Charticulator visual. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 188 recorded on April 16th, 2021 where John & Jason to Heather Newman, Principle Program Manager at Microsoft for Dynamics 365 & Power Platform Community Success, about her new role at Microsoft and all the great stuff they are doing to support and promote the Community. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 187 recorded on April 13th, 2021 where John & Jason to Stephanie Bruno, Associate Director of Informatics at Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation & Data Platform MVP, about the Power BI Community, her work with the Foundation, The Data-Witches blog, and the changes coming in her world. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 186 recorded on April 5th, 2021 where John & Jason about the news from around the Power BI & Collaboration community, reflecting on MVP Summit, as well as a discussion on Premium per User now being GA. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 185 recorded on March 26th, 2021 where John & Jason about the news from March including VNet Connectivity for PBI Datasets, ODBC support available for Paginated Reports in public preview, and Power BI as a superset of Azure Analysis Services. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 184 recorded on March 24th, 2021 where John & Jason about the Power BI March 2021 Feature Summary including the Advanced Data Selection in Azure Maps Visual, External Tools integration in Desktop is now generally available, and a new dataset details view. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 183 recorded on March 12th, 2021 where John & Jason about John's click bait blog post where he talks about the validity of continuing to use Power Pivot in Excel. Jason takes the count point. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 182 recorded on March 4, 2021 where John & Jason talk to Microsoft Product Manager Chris Finlan about recent announcements around the Premium per user license, how it came about, and a few other interesting tidbits. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 181 recorded on February 26th, 2021 where John & Jason talk about the Power BI February 2021 Feature Summary including the DirectQuery for PBI datasets and Azure Analysis Services Updates (preview), Model View Updates, New filter operations, and a new color picker. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 180 recorded on February 19th, 2021 where John & Jason talk with Melissa Coates, Data Platform MVP & the owner of Coates Data Strategies, about all things Power BI Governance. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 179 recorded on February 5th, 2021 where John & Jason deep dive on the Best Practices Analyzer in Tabular Editor, an external tool for Power BI Desktop. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 178 recorded on February 5th, 2021 where John & Jason review the recently published Power BI 2021 release wave 1 roadmap. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 177 recorded on January 22nd, 2021 where John & Jason talk about some of their experiences at work with Power BI lately. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 176 recorded on January 8th, 2021 where John & Jason talk about Report Creation in the Power BI Service, the preview of Datasets Hub, and General Availability of the XMLA Read/Write end-point… plus we bring back Ideas.powerbi.com picks for 2021. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 175 recorded on December 15th, 2020 where John & Jason talk with Christian Wade about what's been happening around the enterprise capabilities for Power BI, how exciting working in the space is, and just bask in Christian's great energy. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 174 recorded on December 21st, 2020 where John & Jason review the changes with Power BI over the past year, check out how they did on last year's predictions, and make some new predictions for 2021. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 173 recorded on December 18th, 2020 where John & Jason talk about the Power BI December 2020 Feature Summary including the DirectQuery for Power BI datasets and Azure Analysis Services preview, Small Multiples preview, Anomaly detection in all mobile apps, and much more. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 172 recorded on December 14th, 2020 where John & Jason talk with Tessa & Jereon, from the Power BI Product Team, about some of the announcement in this month's release of Power BI Desktop. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 171 recorded on December 4th, 2020 where John & Jason talk about Azure Synapse Analytics reaching general availability and the announcement of Azure Purview in Public Preview. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 170 recorded on November 13th, 2020 where John & Jason talk about Anomaly Detection & the Visual Data Prep public previews, and what’s new in Power Query & Dataflows. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 169 recorded on November 13th, 2020 where John & Jason talk about the Power BI November 2020 Feature Summary including the New Field List & Model view previews, the Visual Zoom Slicer, and some Coming Soon attractions. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 168 recorded on November 13, 2020 where John & Jason talk about the public availability of the new Power BI premium per user license, as well as the preview on the Gen 2 Premium Architecture. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 167 recorded on November 6, 2020 where John & Jason talk about the election… and then Power BI News. We promise we really do. Topics like Updates to Power BI Publish to web for better public reporting, Priority Access sign-up for Power BI Premium per user public preview now available, and Paginated Report November 2020 Feature Summary. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 166 recorded on October 30, 2020 where John & Jason start talking about the October 2020 Power BI update, again, including updates to the mobile experience, a new HTML visual, major changes to Template Apps. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 165 recorded on October 23, 2020 where John & Jason start talking about the October 2020 Power BI update - things like dynamic M queries, a new SharePoint list connectors but don’t quite get finished. You'll have to come back next week for the rest! For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 164 recorded on October 16, 2020 where John & Jason talk about some recent news, the new Power BI app for Teams, alternative productivity tools, and Jason's blog post series on working from home. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 163 recorded on October 09, 2020 where John & Jason talk about how not to use Excel properly (listen up UK government..) and the role of Excel in Power BI today and in the future. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 162 recorded on October 2, 2020 where John & Jason talk about a few changes to the monthly update announcements and go through the announcement for September. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 161 recorded on September 25th, 2020 where John & Jason talk with Chris Finlan, Principal Program Manager for Power BI at Microsoft, about the news from Microsoft Ignite including the Power Automate actions for Power BI, Premium Gen2, and Premium Per User. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 160 recorded on September 22th, 2020 where John & Jason recap the Power BI News from Microsoft Ignite with Patrick Leblanc & Adam Saxton, from Microsoft, aka Guy in a Cube with highlights such as Premium Per User, picks from the September 2020 Desktop release, and Power BI Premium Gen2. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 159 recorded on September 11th, 2020 where John & Jason catch up on the Power BI News from the past few weeks and share insights about Microsoft Ignite. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 158 recorded on August 28th, 2020 where John & Jason catch up on the Power BI News from the past few weeks including re-imagined headers and navigation in the Power BI Mobile apps, Power BI data protection updates, and Release update for Sept 2020 release of Power BI Report Server. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 157 recorded on August 21st, 2020 where John & Jason talk to Microsoft MVPs Mike Carlo & Seth Bauer, from PowerBI.tips, about their new tool Business Ops and all of the great stuff they do at PowerBI.Tips. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 156 recorded on August 14th, 2020 where John & Jason talk about the August 2020 Power BI Desktop Update including dynamic formatting support to more visuals, Direct Query support for Q&A in preview, Text/CSV By Example in preview. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 155, our 3rd anniversary episode, recorded on August 7th, 2020 where John & Jason talk about updates to Microsoft Teams, the new Microsoft Ignite dates, some announcements about Power BI Workspaces & Dataflows, and some Ideas picks. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 154 recorded on July 22nd, 2020 where John & Jason talk about the July 2020 Power BI Desktop Update including Gradient Legend, Azure Maps Visuals, and the fact that Power BI Desktop now supports external-tool extensibility. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 153 recorded on July 9th, 2020 where John & Jason talk about the newly released Microsoft Power Platform: 2020 release wave 2 plan for Power BI Mobile & the Power BI Service. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 152 recorded on July 9th, 2020 where John & Jason talk about the newly released Microsoft Power Platform: 2020 release wave 2 plan for Power BI Desktop. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 151 recorded on June 25, 2020 where John & Jason talk about changes to some formerly useful custom visuals, Power BI Report Server licensing change, and a conversation about Apps. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 150, our sesquicentennial episode, recorded on June 17, 2020 where John & Jason talk about the June 2020 Power BI Desktop Update including Enhancements to mobile layout authoring, changes to the Hierarchy slicer, and Model view enabled for live connect. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 149 recorded on June 10, 2020 where John & Jason discuss John's latest blog post about Creating Data Driven Subscriptions for Power BI Reports, some Power Apps stuff, and some other tidbits. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 148 recorded on June 4, 2020 where John & Jason talk about the rest of the news from May 2020 including Power BI Report Server May 2020 Feature Summary, Power BI Dataflows Direct Query Support, and What’s next for the new workspace experience upgrade in the coming months. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 147 recorded on May 28, 2020 where John & Jason talk to Will Thompson, Group Program Manager for Power BI Creation Experiences about his vision, The future of Power BI authoring, and the correct way to pronounce composite models. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 146 recorded on May 21, 2020 where John & Jason talk about the May 2020 Power BI Desktop Update including Curate featured tables for Excel coming to preview, Drop shadow support for visuals, Direct Query on Dataflows and Dataset impact analysis. They also there are picks this week… finally. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 145 recorded on May 15, 2020 where John & Jason talk about the April 2020 Power BI Desktop Update including being able to Personalize visuals (in preview), change detection for page refresh (in preview)and Direct Query support for AI visuals. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 144 recorded on May 7, 2020 where John & Jason recap announcements made during the Microsoft Business Applications Summit like connecting to multiple models in a single report, expansion of Direct Query support, Power BI Template layouts, and deeper SharePoint & Teams integrations. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 143 recorded on May 4, 2020 where John & Jason talk about Microsoft Business Applications Summit, the delay of the April Desktop, Subreports now available in Paginated Reports, and John does a mea culpa. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 142 recorded on April 16th, 2020 where John & Jason go over the Power BI News of the day, including the new workspace look and feel, improvements to Paginated reports, copying visuals, and more. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 141 recorded on April 10th, 2020 where John & Jason talk in depth about Power BI Apps, Power BI Template Apps, discuss the announcement about Power BI Apps this week where designing custom navigation is becoming generally available, and have several User Voice picks to share. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 140 recorded on April 3rd, 2020 where John & Jason talk about Azure Data Explorer, formerly known as Kusto, discuss some of the COVID data out in the ether, and the XMLA read\write end point that was recently announced. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 139 recorded on March 26th, 2020 where John & Jason talk to Rob Foster, Senior Manager at Deloitte & Office Apps and Services MVP, about his video on the COVID-19 data that inspired the new series on the BIFocal YouTube Channel. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 138 recorded on March 16th, 2020 where John & Jason talk about the March 2020 Power BI Desktop Update including New action types for buttons, Multi-column sort for tables, and the New Power BI Ribbon becomes the default Ribbon… or the Ribbon. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 137 recorded on March 2nd, 2020 where John & Jason talk about trouble with Calculation groups, the new Power BI tab in Microsoft Teams, and Power BI Home Changes. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 136 recorded on February 18th, 2020 where John & Jason talk about the February 2020 Power BI Desktop Update including incremental refresh going GA & available for Pro users, the out of the box Hierarchical Slicer, and new Ribbon changes in Preview. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 135 recorded on February 5th, 2020 where John & Jason catch up on some news including the Publish to Web default is changing, improved report usage metrics in modern workspaces, and the features in the January 2020 release of Power BI Report Server. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 134 recorded on January 28th, 2020 where John & Jason walk through the Power Platform 2020 Release Wave 1 Plan in excruciating detail. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 133 recorded on January 24th, 2020 where John & Jason talk to Treb Gatte, CEO of Marquee Insights & Data Platform MVP, about getstartedwithpowerbi.com, the Microsoft Ignite announcements, and other community efforts to help people learn Power BI. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 132 recorded on January 16th, 2020 where John & Jason talk about some updates in Jason's world, discuss the Microsoft Ignite World Tour, and cover the latest news in Power BI. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 131 recorded on January 2nd, 2020 where John & Jason cover the news, review their predictions for 2019, and make predictions for 2020. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 130 recorded on December 20, 2019 where John & Jason walk through the latest version of Power BI Desktop, which includes a theme editor, data URLs, and more. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 129 recorded live at SharePoint Fest Chicago on December 11, 2019 where John & Jason cover off a few recent Power BI news items, and highlight some recent guidance around Power BI Premium. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 128 recorded live at Microsoft Ignite on November 5th, 2019 where John & Jason talk to Dona Sarkar, Principal Advocate for the Microsoft Power Platform about her background, community, and intrapreneurship. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 127 recorded on November 14th, 2019 where John & Jason talk about the November Power BI Desktop features including the new Power BI Desktop Ribbon, Decomposition Tree, and AI Functions in Power Query. Jason's blog post Office 365 Service Description Power BI Reporthttps://www.sharepointlonghorn.com/office-365-service-description-power-bi-report/ John's blog post A low cost approach for paginated report subscriptions in Power BIhttp://whitepages.unlimitedviz.com/2019/11/a-low-cost-approach-for-paginated-report-subscriptions-in-power-bi/ Desktop November 2019 Other • Modern ribbon (preview) Reporting • Decomposition tree visual (preview) Analytics • Conditionally format button formatting Visualizations • ArcGIS Maps for Power BI update • New xViz visuals • Advanced Gauge • Hierarchical Filter • ZoomCharts Drill-Down Waterfall Visual • Financial Reporting Matrix by Profitbase • Distribution • Tree Data connectivity • LinkedIn Sales Navigator connector • Edit SAP variables experience now generally available • Vena connector • SiteImprove connector • Product Insights connector • Web By Example connector – support for extracting links Data Preparation • AI functions in Power Query (Preview) Template apps • LinkedIn Sales Navigator for Sales Operations Ideas Dark Mode https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/37882726-option-to-use-either-light-or-dark-interface https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/34628386-dark-mode-for-power-bi Jason's pick - Votes: 601 No Ctrl-Click on Buttons Needed for Bookmarks View Mode When editing in Desktop, you have to Ctrl-Click a button to trigger the assigned action - very good. But when you have multiple bookmarks and you go into "View" mode, you are effectively in "PowerPoint Mode". When in this mode, there should be just a single click for a button (no ctrl needed). https://ideas.powerbi.com/forums/265200-power-bi-ideas/suggestions/38773519-no-ctrl-click-on-buttons-needed-for-bookmarks-vie

This is episode 126 recorded on November 8th, 2019 where John & Jason talk about Microsoft Ignite, the announcements, the demos, and all the rest of the stuff from the show. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 125 recorded live at Microsoft Ignite on November 8th, 2019 where John & Jason interview Adam Saxton, Microsoft’s “Guy in a Cube”, about the Power BI community, what announcements Microsoft made this at Microsoft Ignite, and expand upon Adam’s Guy in a Cube Round Up for November 11th. Show Notes: Killer Power BI updates at MS Ignite (Guy in a Cube Roundup | November 11, 2019) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQejH0KE2sw&feature=youtu.be&list=PLv2BtOtLblH0NEAt7-LT7phhn8qv718eK&fbclid=IwAR2orSNitvzBsfuC5m0P7zqDkwPaXPxXtBeuP2CHcaQxUzXlcazALHxv4VI Weaving Business Intelligence into the fabric of the organization with Microsoft Power BI https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/weaving-business-intelligence-into-the-fabric-of-the-organization-with-microsoft-power-bi/ Large models in Power BI Premium public preview https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/large-models-in-power-bi-premium-public-preview/ Microsoft Power BI: Distributing insights and governing self-service analytics with the Power BI service https://myignite.techcommunity.microsoft.com/sessions/83509

This is episode 124 recorded live at Microsoft Ignite on November 4th, 2019 where John & Jason talk about some new blogs posts from John and interview Arun Ulag, General Manager of Power BI Engineering at Microsoft, about all things Power BI, what announcements they've made this week, and where he sees them heading. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 123 recorded on October 31st, 2019 where John & Jason talk to Anna Chu about Microsoft Ignite. She shares information about the upcoming event including lots of tips & tricks, clarifies some information about the event, and we all make some session picks. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 122 recorded on October 29th, 2019 where John & Jason talk about the October Power BI news including refreshing your Power BI dataset using Microsoft Flow, general availability of Automated Machine learning in Power BI, and the Power BI lineage view. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 121 recorded on October 15th, 2019 where John & Jason talk about the October Power BI Desktop features including Automatic page refresh for DirectQuery, the new Q&A visual and associated updates, and Query diagnostics. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 120 recorded on October 2nd, 2019 where John & Jason talk about the Microsoft Ignite schedule builder and a whole bunch of news items from the last month. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 119 recorded on September 27th, 2019 where John & Jason talk through the Microsoft Power Platform 2019 Release Wave 2 Plan and highlight the important Power BI dates over the next few months. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 118 recorded on September 19th, 2019 where John & Jason walk through the September 2019 Power BI Desktop update, and highlight some important user voice picks. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 117 recorded on September 5th, 2019 where John & Jason talk to Chris Webb, Principal Program Manager at Microsoft on the Power BI CAT Team, about Power Query, data consulting, community efforts, and his new shiny new job at Microsoft. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 116 recorded on September 5th, 2019 where John & Jason talk to Marco Russo about Analysis in general, community efforts, and his new book, The Definitive Guide to DAX, 2nd edition. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 115 recorded on August 29th, 2019 where John & Jason talk about the latest News, Ignite update & the August Power BI Desktop news including Grouping visuals, Measure support for the Key Influencers Visual, & some new Data Connectivity. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 114 recorded on August 21st, 2019 where John & Jason talk to Chris Finlan, Principal Program Manager for Power BI, about his experience at SPFest, whats new and exciting in Power BI, and some specifics around Paginated Reports in Power BI. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 113 recorded on August 14st, 2019 where John & Jason recap all the news that fit to hear from Summer 2019 like Sending refresh notifications to others, Paginated Reports August 2019 Feature Update, Power BI Premium new capacity settings allow for more control over datasets, and more. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 112 recorded on August 7st, 2019 where John & Jason talk to Christian Wade, Senior Program Manager for Analysis Services at Microsoft, about Power BI in the Enterprise, the updates to Aggregations feature, upcoming major performance enhancements, and more. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 111 recorded on August 1st, 2019 where John & Jason talk about the latest update to Power BI Desktop including Icon sets for table and matrix, Aggregations now being generally available with RLS support, and the Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 connector. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 110 recorded on July 25th, 2019 where John & Jason talk to Anna Chu from Microsoft about all of the opportunities available for community participation at this year's Microsoft Ignite Conference For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 109 recorded on July 18th, 2019 where John & Jason review some community news, and John interviews Reid Havens of Havens consulting about the Power BI community, consulting in the Power BI world, and template apps. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

Episode 108 - Interview with Justyna Lucznik by John White & Jason Himmelstein

This is episode 107 recorded on July 2nd, 2019 where John & Jason talk about MVP Renewals, the World Cup, and a whole bunch of Power BI News including the New Viewer Role for Power BI Workspaces, the June Dataflows updates, and a new version of Power BI Report Builder. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

Episode 106 - Interview with Chris Finlan about Paginated Reports in the Power BI Service by John White & Jason Himmelstein

This is episode 105 recorded on June 13th, 2019 where John & Jason talk about the latest update to Power BI Desktop including the new look for Power BI Desktop, Certified and shared datasets, and Visual level filters for slicers. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 104 recorded on June 10th, 2019 live from Microsoft's Business Applications Summit where John & Jason talk about all of the announcements from the Power BI Vision & Roadmap keynote. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 103 recorded on June 7th, 2019 where John & Jason talk about the Microsoft Community, plans for the Microsoft Business Applications Summit, a few bits of news, and some recent helpful blog posts from John. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 102 recorded at European Collaboration Summit in Wiesbaden, Germany on May 29th, 2019 where John & Jason talk about latest Power BI news. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 101 recorded on May 23rd, 2019 where John & Jason talk about latest update to Power BI Desktop. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 100 recorded on May 16th, 2019 where John & Jason make a big deal about episode 100, talk about how they got here, some of the events that they have coming up, make some picks, and Jason pulls a fast one on John. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 99 where John & Jason talk to Abram Jackson & Tyler Lenig, Program Managers from the Graph Data Connect Team, about the release of Microsoft Graph Data Connect & how it can be used with Power BI. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 98 recorded on May 2nd, 2019 where John & Jason talk to Treb Gatte, Managing Partner at Tumble Road, about all the exciting Power BI news from the last couple of weeks. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 97 recorded on March 21st, 2019 where John & Jason talk to Matthew Roche, Senior Program Manager on the Power BI CAT team, about Dataflows, sword play, and much more. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 96 recorded on April 15th, 2019 where John & Jason talk about latest update to Power BI Desktop the including features like Drillthrough across reports, Filter pane improvements, & Dataflows connector now being generally available, plus a breakdown of some other news AND User Voice Picks! For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 95 recorded on April 8th, 2019 where John & Jason talk about all of the news just from last week that the Power BI team announced. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 94 recorded on March 19th, 2019 where John & Jason talk to Aviv Ezrachi, Principle Program Manager for Power BI, about his role with the Power BI Service and his vision for Power BI Development. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 93 recorded on March 18th, 2019 where John & Jason talk to Kim Manis, Principal Group Product Manager for Power BI, about her role on the Power BI Team and her vision for Power BI Desktop. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 92 recorded on March 15th, 2019 where John & Jason talk about latest update to Power BI Desktop the including features like Single select slicer, filter pane improvements, and some accessibility improvements. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 91 recorded on February 11th, 2019 where Jason talks to Shane Young, PowerApps consultant with PowerApps911 & SharePoint and PowerApps MVP, about PowerApps & the Power Platform . For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 90 recorded on March 1st, 2019 where John & Jason talk about latest Power BI news & Jason talks about using Power BI with Microsoft Teams & SharePoint list data. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 89 recorded on February 22nd, 2019 where John & Jason talk about latest update to Power BI Desktop the including features like update default visual interaction to cross-filter, Insights questions in Q&A, and a bunch of new custom visuals. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 88 recorded on February 22nd, 2019 where John & Jason catch up on all the February news from the Power BI team including 3 updates from Chris Finlan. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 87 recorded on January 30, 2019 where John & Jason talk about the new Power Platform Admin Center and the recently published spring roadmap for the Power Platform. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 86 recorded on January 30, 2019 where John & Jason talk about the January 2019 release of Power BI Report Server, and improvements to the subscriptions feature in the Power BI Service. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 85 recorded on January 21, 2019 where John & Jason talk about the new personal bookmarks feature, and how to get the most out of Power Query with Power BI Dataflows. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 84 recorded on January 21, 2019 where John & Jason talk about Azure big data technologies, the Ignite world tour, and Power BI external dataflows. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 83 recorded on January 11th, 2019 where John & Jason talk Workspace Management in the Admin portal & the death of inappropriate anonymous embedding. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 82 recorded on December 18th, 2018 where John & Jason talk about the highlights of 2018 in the Power BI space & make some predictions for 2019. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 81 recorded live at SharePointFest Chicago on December 6th, 2018 where Jason talks Andrew Connell, co-host of the Microsoft Cloud Show and Instructor & Entrepreneur at Voitanos.io, about Azure AppInsights & developing for proper analytics. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 80 recorded on December 17th, 2018 where John & Jason talk about last update to Power BI Desktop in 2018 including features like Smart guides for aligning objects on a page & the preview of Live connect support for Q&A. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 79 recorded on November 28th, 2018 where John interviews Jen Stirrup, Microsoft Data Platform MVP and Regional director about the state of Business Intelligence and its relationship to Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence and spends a little time talking about the competitive landscape. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 78 recorded on December 5th, 2018 live from SPFest Chicago where Jason talks with the other speakers on the BI track Treb Gatte, Liz Sundet, and Daniel Glenn about their perspectives on BI in the SharePoint space & their predictions for 2019. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 77 recorded on November 21st, 2018 where John & Jason talk about some new blogs posts from John and interview Arun Ulag, General Manager of Power BI Engineering at Microsoft, about all things Power BI at Microsoft Ignite on September 25th, 2018. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 76 recorded on November 21st, 2018 where John & Jason talk about all the new stuff in the latest Power BI Desktop like the updated filtering experience & the new modeling view now in preview. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 75 recorded on November 9th, 2018 where John & Jason talk about the news coming out of PASS Summit and break down the introduction of Dataflows. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 74 recorded on September 24th, 2018 where John & Jason interview Amir Netz, Technical Fellow and Chief Architect of Microsoft BI offerings at Microsoft, about all things Power BI. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 73 recorded on October 22nd, 2018 where John & Jason talk to Chris Finlan, Senior Program Manager for Power BI at Microsoft, about the Power BI Report Server, Paginated Report in the cloud via Power BI, and much more. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 72 recorded on October 19th, 2018 where John & Jason talk to about the October release of Power BI Desktop, and a little about publish to web reports. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 71 recorded on September 26th, 2018 where John & Jason talk about some new & exciting stuff they are each working on & interview Amanda Cofsky, Program Manager for Power BI, at Microsoft Ignite about what is coming to Power BI Desktop like Copy & Paste visuals between PBIX files. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 70 recorded on July 24th, 2018 where John talks to Kent Weare, Principal Program Manager for Microsoft Flow, at the Business Application Summit about Microsoft Flow & the announcement that was made at Microsoft Ignite on September 27th about Power Query Online Integration for Microsoft Flow. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 69 recorded on September 26th, 2018 where John & Jason talk to Sundeep Meda, Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft, about RDL in the Cloud, field listener questions, the Power BI webpart in SharePoint Online, updates to Report Builder & Report viewer, Row level security in Power BI Report Server, and much more. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 68 recorded on September 26th, 2018 where John & Jason talk to Adam Saxton, Microsoft's "Guy in a Cube", live at Microsoft Ignite 2018 about the new XMLA end points, Certified Data Sets, the shift to focus on Enterprise BI with Power BI Premium, the new ALM Toolkit, and much more. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 67 recorded on September 25th, 2018 where John & Jason talk to Josh Caplan, Sr. Program Manager for Power BI, live at Microsoft Ignite 2018 about Power BI Premium, the new XMLA end points, and much more. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 66 recorded on September 14th, 2018 where John & Jason talk to about the September release of Power BI Desktop and make picks for Microsoft Ignite 2018. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 65 recorded on September 11th, 2018 where John & Jason talk to Microsoft MVP and Regional Director Reza Rad about Reza's Power BI background, and our joint meetup at Microsoft Ignite. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.showFor show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 64 recorded on September 6th, 2018 where John & Jason talk about Microsoft Ignite and an alternative way to find sessions using Power BI. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 63 recorded on August 30th, 2018 where John & Jason talk to Christian Wade, Senior Program Manager for Analysis Services at Microsoft, about Power BI in the Enterprise, the upcoming Aggregations feature, and more. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 62 recorded on August 16th, 2018 where John & Jason talk about the Power BI Report Server release & interview Adam Saxton, Microsoft's "Guy in a Cube". For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 61 recorded on August 9th, 2018 where John & Jason talk to Lukasz Pawlowski, Senior Program Manager on the Power BI team at Microsoft, and mention highlights from the August Power BI Desktop release. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 60 recorded on August 7th, 2018 where John & Jason talk about a new initiative for Power BI Beginners & the deprecation and removal of BI Features in SharePoint 2019.

This is episode 59 recorded on July 31st, 2018 where John & Jason talk about SPSNYC, sessions for Ignite, and interview Will Thompson from the Power BI Desktop Team at Microsoft. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 58 recorded on July 25th 2018 where John & Jason talk about Business Application Summit after-the-fact, The Road Ahead for Power BI & SharePoint blog post, and do a deep dive on the Power BI Desktop update for July. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 57 recorded on July 23rd 2018 where John & Jason recap the announcements at the 2018 Business Application Summit in Seattle, Washington. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 56 recorded on July 12th 2018 where John & Jason talk about Microsoft Research Open Data, Developer & Gateway news, Power BI Desktop vs Service, and MVP renewals. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 55 recorded on June 28th 2018 where John & Jason talk about a few recent bugs and service interruptions, the recent Power of the Cloud conference, PowerApps, Flow, and some recent improvements to the usability of the On Premises Data Gateway For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 54 recorded on June 21th 2018… where John & Jason talk about mobile app configuration of PBIRS settings, a new way of analyzing Excel in Power BI, and the upcoming Power BI Embedded deadline. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 53 recorded on June 13th 2018… where John & Jason talk about new initiatives in their world, discussed MyAnalytics, Azure Machine Learning, and some of the Power BI Service limits & what to do about them. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 52 recorded on June 7th 2018… where John & Jason talk about the new Power BI Desktop update & the role of Power BI Desktop. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 51 recorded on June 7th 2018… where John & Jason talk about news in the Power BI space, the Power BI Developer community update for May, and some twitter shenanigans. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 50 recorded live on May 21st 2018… where John & Jason talk the announcements & other things happening at the SharePoint Conference North America in Las Vegas. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 49 recorded on May 15th, 2018… where John & Jason talk to Liz Sundet, Office Servers & Services MVP from Minnesota, about the upcoming SPCNA Conference in Las Vegas next week and some news related to the upcoming GDPR deadline. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 48 recorded on May 8th 2018… where John & Jason talk about Guy in a Cube's new video, and walk through the new features of the May 2018 Power BI Desktop which includes the much anticipated incremental refresh. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 47 recorded on April 30th 2018… where John & Jason interview Olaf Hubel, Senior Program Manager at Microsoft on the Excel Engineering team. For show notes please visit http://www.bifocal.show

This is episode 46 recorded on April 17th 2018… where John & Jason talk about a whole bunch of miscellaneous items including GDPR, OneNote, Moving from SSRS SharePoint Integrated Mode, and SharePoint lists in Microsoft Teams. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 45 recorded on April 12th 2018… where John & Jason take a deep dive on the announcements about the new Common Data Service for Analytics and the new Common Data Service for Apps. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 44 recorded on April 9th 2018… where John & Jason talk about the Developer Update & the Gateway Update for March and the Power BI Desktop update for April. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 43 recorded on March 8th 2018… where John & Jason talk to Charles Sterling who runs the MVP Program for the PowerApps, Flow, and Power BI about his experience working at Microsoft, his view of the MVP Community in the Power*s world, and non-NDA stuff about MVP Summit. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 42 recorded on March 23rd 2018… where John & Jason talk to Megan Assarrane, Senior Product Marketing Manager at Microsoft for Power BI Embedded, to dispel some misunderstandings about embedded licensing, discuss the retirement of the old Workspace Collections product & the awesomeness that is the new Power BI Embedded service. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 41 recorded on March 15th 2018… where John & Jason talk to Riccardo Muti, Principal Group Program Manager at Microsoft for Power BI and SQL Server Reporting Services, about the latest Power BI Report Server release & the direction he sees the product going in the future. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 40 recorded on March 15th 2018… where John & Jason talk about the latest Power BI news from the week & tease next week's very special episode. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 39 recorded on March 8th 2018… from Microsoft Campus in Redmond at the Global MVP Summit where John & Jason talk about the latest Power BI Desktop Update & explain the new ability to share Power BI content with anyone by email address using Azure B2C. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 38 recorded on February 27th 2018… where John & Jason talk about the Power BI App story & the new functionality that the Power BI team released last week for updating Apps. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 37 recorded on February 20th 2018… where John & Jason talk about the January Feature Update for the Power BI Service and Mobile that released in February. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 36 recorded on February 12th 2018… where Jason geeks out with guest host Dave Feldman about the latest Power BI Desktop Update, restoring SQL Azure Databases, and some other randomness. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 35 recorded on January 23rd 2018… where John & Jason discuss SQL Server Reporting Services in the overall Microsoft BI stack & the upgrade path to the latest iteration, including the SharePoint implications. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 34 recorded on January 23rd 2018… where John interviews Chris McNulty from Microsoft about the role of SharePoint in Business Intelligence and Chris gloats about his Patriots winning the AFC Championship over Jason's beloved Jaguars. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 33 recorded on January 18th 2018… where John & Jason to Lori Gowin about her new role at Microsoft & her journey into Power BI. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show

This is episode 32 recorded on January 11th 2018… where John & Jason talk about scaling Power BI, it's limits, and how to overcome them. For show notes please visit https://www.bifocal.show

This is episode 31 recorded on January 9th 2018… where John & Jason talk about the January features updates to Power BI Desktop, some things they noticed in the Desktop client, and some User Voice submissions. For show notes please visit https://www.bifocal.show

This is episode 30 recorded in January 1st 2018… where John & Jason talk about the news from the past few weeks in Power BI, Office 365, and Azure.

This is episode 29 recorded in December 2017… where John & Jason talk to community members about their 2018 predictions & make a few themselves. For show notes please visit http://www.bifocal.show

This is episode 28 recorded on December 14th, 2017… where John & Jason talk about the new SQL Server Management Studio 17.4, a new open source SQL Server CLI, a change to Power BI Premium, and the December updates to Power BI Deskop. For show notes please visit http://www.bifocal.show

This is episode 27 recorded on December 6th, 2017 from SharePointFest Chicago… where John & Jason talk to Paul Schaeflein about helping people transform applications using Microsoft Teams, authentication stuff using Azure B2B & Paul quizzes us on how people should be using Power BI. For show notes please visit https://www.bifocal.show

This is episode 26 recorded on December 6th, 2017 from SharePointFest Chicago… where John & Jason talk about the latest updates to the OnPrem Data Gateway, the technical reference implementation for enterprise BI and reporting, and the latest news for Power BI Developers. For show notes please visit bifocal.show/2017/12/08/onprem-data-gateway-power-bi-developers-news/

This is episode 25 recorded on November 24th, 2017… Black Friday… or as we call it, Analytics Friday… where John & Jason talk about Power BI Guest Access using Azure B2B and some tips, tricks & community shout outs. For show notes please visit https://bifocal.show/2017/11/28/episode-25-power-bi-guest-access/

This is episode 24 recorded on November 17th, 2017… where John & Jason talk to about the latest updates to Power BI Desktop, some new custom visuals, and some community contribution picks. For show notes please visit https://bifocal.show/2017/11/24/november-power-bi-desktop-update/

This is episode 23 recorded on November 7th, 2017… where John & Jason talk to about the new single-sign on methods for the Power BI service and an interview with Dave Feldman, Microsoft MVP from Shire Pharmaceuticals. For show notes please visit http://bifocal.show/2017/11/14/interview-with-dave-feldman/

This is episode 22 recorded on November 2nd, 2017… where John & Jason talk to about the brand new release of Power BI Report Server, PowerApp visuals, & Power BI Licensing. For show notes please visit http://bifocal.show/2017/11/06/episode-22-power-bi-report-server-release-news

This is episode 21 recorded at Microsoft Ignite on September 26th, 2017… where John & Jason talk to Miguel Llopis, Microsoft Program Manager responsible for Power Query project. For show notes please visit https://bifocal.show/2017/11/02/episode-21-miguel-llopis/

This is episode 20 recorded on October 3rd, 2017… where John & Jason talk to Ed Senez & Dean Swann from TyGraph to debrief on Microsoft Ignite from a Business Intelligence perspective. For show notes please visit https://bifocal.show/2017/10/23/episode-20-ignite-office-365-reporting-tygraph/

This is episode 19 recorded on October 12th, 2017… where John & Jason talk to about the news including a new version & way of deploying Power BI Desktop and what's interesting in the release of SQL Server 2017. For show notes please visit https://bifocal.show/2017/10/17/episode-19-dummy-proofing-for-executives

This is episode 18 recorded at Microsoft Ignite on September 27th, 2017… where John & Jason talk to Anne Michels & Shilpi Sinha from the Office 365 Product Team about Reporting in Office 365. For show notes please visit https://bifocal.show/2017/10/10/episode-18-ignite-interview-with-anne-michels-shilpi-sinha/

Description: This is episode 17 recorded live from Microsoft Ignite on September 26th, 2017… where John & Jason talk to Christopher Finlan, Microsoft's SQL Server Reporting Services Program Manager, about the announcements made at Microsoft Ignite 2017. For show notes please visit https://bifocal.show/2017/10/05/apisode-17-live-from-ignite-with-chris-finlan/

This is episode 16 recorded on September 26th, 2017 at the Microsoft Podcasting Center where John & Jason talk to Program Manager Sirui Sun about everything Power BI. For show notes please visit https://bifocal.show/2017/10/03/episode-16-sirui-sun/

This is episode 15 recorded on September 13th, 2017 where John & Jason talk about the September 2017 updates to Power BI Desktop, interview Treb Gatte, and share our session picks for Ignite 2017. For show notes please visit https://bifocal.show/2017/09/22/episode-15-ignite-2017-bonus/

This is episode 14 recorded on September 8th, 2017 where John & Jason talk about Power BI Drill through Reports, Timeline Storyteller Visual, Microsoft Forms with Microsoft Flow and Power BI, and Microsoft Ignite. For show notes please visit

This is episode 13 recorded on August 31st, 2017 where John & Jason talk about Power BI Embedded, Hurricane Harvey, and the new Power BI Report Server. For show notes please visit http://bifocal.show/2017/09/12/episode-13-back-to-on-premises/

This is episode 12 recorded on August 23rd, 2017 where John & Jason talk about the new SharePoint Communication Sites, OneDrive's new sharing functionality, when times are not times, and the difference between embedding reports & Power BI Embedded. For show notes please visit bifocal.show/2017/09/05/episode-12-time-after-time/

This is episode 11 recorded on August 18th, 2017 where John & Jason talk about the News in Power BI including Desktop update, a new version of the onPrem Data Gateway & the Power BI Research panel. For show notes please visit https://bifocal.show/?p=92&preview=true

This is episode 10 recorded on August 17th, 2017 where we talk about the new Power BI licensing model & Microsoft Ignite. For show notes please visit http://bifocal.show/2017/08/18/episode-10-may-i-see-your-license-please-sir

In this episode, John and Jason look talk about about SQL Server 2017 RC2, PowerApps, and updates to the Power BI service. Recorded August 3rd, 2017

In this episode, John and Jason look specifically the July 2017 updates to Power BI in the Desktop, the service, and to the On-Premises Data Gateway. Additionally, we talk about the fact that in September, we’ll be recording in front of a live audience at the Microsoft Ignite conference in Orlando! Recorded July 14, 2017 Check out the show notes at https://www.bifocal.show/2017/08/01/episode-8-back-into-it/

After a long hiatus, Jason and John are back with the podcast! The format has changed, and now it’s audio-only (for the moment at least) and we’re trying to keep it down to a consumable 30 minutes. In this re-launching episode both Jason and John were in Johannesburg for the Share conference, and took the opportunity to discuss all of the important announcements coming out of the Microsoft Data Analytics summit, which was happening half a world away in Seattle. Recorded June 13, 2017 Check out the show notes at https://www.bifocal.show/2017/08/01/episode-live-from-johannesburg/

Power BI has been getting a lot of attention recently, but it represents only the cloud platform of Microsoft’s BI strategy. As clearly announced last fall, the other main platform, deployed on premises, is SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). The release of SQL Server 2016 represents a major leap forward for SSRS. Jason and John welcome guest Riccardo Muti, from the SSRS team at Microsoft to discuss the past, present and future of this venerable BI tool. Recorded August 11, 2016 Check out the show notes at https://bifocal.show/2017/07/20/episode-6-select-from-reports/

In this episode, we were fortunate enough to have Kasper De Jonge as our guest. Kasper is Senior Program Manager on the Analysis Services team, and has been with the tabular data model since its inception. Recorded May 19, 2016 Check out the show notes at bifocal.show/2017/07/20/episode…select-from-stack/

The excitement for Power BI continues to build. The driving force behind this is its ease of use, the from zero to insight speed. It’s easy to overlook the fact that Power BI also has a strong development story too. Join Jason and John as they welcome special guest Ted Pattison of Critical Path consulting to discuss the developer landscape in Power BI. Recorded April 28, 2016 Check out the show notes at https://bifocal.show/2017/07/20/episode-4-the-power-bi-development-story/

SharePoint 2016 is now generally available!!! Jason and John welcome guests Kay Unkroth and Gregory Appel from Microsoft to discuss the BI changes in SharePoint 2016. Kay is a senior Product Manager responsible for BI intergration in SharePoint, and Greg is a senior PM in charge of Excel Online. The big topic discussed is the fact that Excel Services have moved over to the Office Online Server. Our guests tackle the questions and repercussions of this, as well as many other topics including Microsoft’s renewed focus on SQL Server Reporting Services. Recorded March 24, 2016 Check out the show notes at https://bifocal.show/2017/07/20/episode-3-select-from-on-prem-where-version2016/

After the monthly News Update, Tips & Tricks, and What’s New in Power BI, John & Jason explain the Microsoft BI stack & it’s related technologies. They roll up their sleeves to dive into where each product can\should\will be best utilized in the business world of today. Recorded February 25, 2016 Check out the show notes at https://bifocal.show/2017/07/20/episode-2-select-from-stack/

John & Jason kick off the BI-focal show by introducing themselves, the topics, and the show format. During the course of the hour they will cover some fun BI Basics and give their perspective on what we might be able to expect in the Microsoft BI ecosystem over the next year. Check out the show notes at https://bifocal.show/2017/07/20/episode-1-select-from-hosts/