BIFocal - Clarifying Business Intelligence
Episodes
Episode 312 - Power BI November 2025 Feature Summary
16 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Episode 312 - Power BI November 2025 Feature Summary by John White & Jason Himmelstein
Episode 311 - Microsoft Ignite recap with Stephanie Bruno
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 311 recorded on November 25th, 2025, where John & Jason talk with Stephanie Bruno, Data Platform MVP & Data Witch, about the news com...
Episode 310 - October 2025 Feature Summaries
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 310 recorded on November 21st, 2025, where John & Jason talk about the Power BI & Fabric Feature Summaries from October 2025 in prep...
Episode 309 - Power BI September 2025 Feature Summary
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 309 recorded on September 22nd, 2025, where John & Jason talk about the Power BI September 2025 Feature Summary including Standalone ...
Episode 308 - Microsoft Fabric September 2025 Feature Summary part 3
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 308 recorded on September 22nd, 2025, where John & Jason finish talking about the Microsoft Fabric September 2025 Feature Summary i...
Episode 307 - Microsoft Fabric September 2025 Feature Summary part 2
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 307 recorded on September 19th, 2025, where John & Jason continue talking about the Microsoft Fabric September 2025 Feature Summary in...
Episode 306 - Microsoft Fabric September 2025 Feature Summary part 1
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 306 recorded on September 19th, 2025, where John & Jason talk about the first half of the Microsoft Fabric September 2025 Feature S...
Episode 305 - On the road with OneLake Security and other news
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 305 recorded on September 9th, 2025, where John & Jason drive across Missouri after the North America Collaboration Summit and discus...
Episode 304 - Microsoft Fabric August 2025 Feature Summary
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 304 recorded on September 4th, 2025, where John & Jason talk the Microsoft Fabric August 2025 Feature Summary including a new Flat l...
Episode 303 - Interview with Mike Carlo from Power BI Tips
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 303 recorded on August 21st, 2025, where John & Jason talk to Mike Carlo from Power BI Tips.com about Power BI & Microsoft Fabric, ho...
Episode 302 - Power BI August 2025 Feature Summary
28 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 302 recorded on August 20th, 2025, where John & Jason talk the Power BI August 2025 Feature Summary including Copilot in Embedded Repo...
Episode 301 - Interview with Andrew Connell & Julie Turner of Code.Deploy.GoLive
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 301 recorded on August 20th, 2025, where John & Jason talk with friends and fellow podcasters Andrew Connell & Julie Turner of the Co...
Episode 300 - Microsoft Fabric July 2025 Feature Summary
05 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 300 recorded on July 31st, 2025, where John & Jason talk the Microsoft Fabric July 2025 Feature Summary including tags in Fabric Dom...
Episode 299 - Microsoft Power BI July 2025 Feature Summary
23 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 299 recorded on July 21st, 2025, where John & Jason talk the Microsoft Power BI July 2025 Feature Summary including expanded data s...
Episode 298 - Microsoft Fabric June 2025 Feature Summary
15 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 298 recorded on July 9th, 2025, where John & Jason talk the Microsoft Fabric June 2025 Feature Summary including lots of Notebook u...
Episode 297 - Microsoft Power BI June 2025 Feature Summary
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 297 recorded on July 4th, 2025, where John & Jason talk the Microsoft Power BI June 2025 Feature Summary including updates to Visual C...
Episode 296 - Microsoft Fabric May 2025 Feature Summary
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 296 recorded on June 6th, 2025, where John & Jason talk the Microsoft Fabric May 2025 Feature Summary including a REST API updates ...
Episode 295 - Power BI May 2025 Feature Summary
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 295 recorded on June 5th, 2025, where John & Jason talk the Power BI May 2025 Feature Summary including a new fabric roadmap tool, ...
Episode 294 - Power BI & Fabric April 2025 Feature Summaries
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 294 recorded on May 7th, 2025 where John & Jason talk the Power BI & Microsoft Fabric April 2025 Feature Summaries in a single epis...
Episode 293 - Microsoft Fabric March 2025 Feature Summary Part 2
08 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 293 recorded on May 6th, 2025 where John & Jason talk the Microsoft Fabric March 2025 Feature Summary including Data Science, Data...
Episode 292 - Microsoft Fabric March 2025 Feature Summary
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 292 recorded on April 22nd, 2025 where John & Jason talk the Microsoft Fabric February 2025 Feature Summary including Fabric Platf...
Episode 291 - Power BI March 2025 Feature Summary
15 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 291 recorded on April 11th, 2025 where John & Jason talk the Microsoft Power BI March 2025 Feature Summary including Desktop start...
Episode 290 - FabCon news recap
11 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 290 recorded on April 8th, 2025 where John & Jason talk the news coming out of the Microsoft Fabric Community Conference in Las Vega...
Episode 289 - Microsoft Fabric February 2025 Feature Summary
30 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 289 recorded on March 21th, 2025 where John & Jason talk the Microsoft Fabric February 2025 Feature Summary including API updates, Mon...
Episode 288 - Power BI February 2025 Feature Summary
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 288 recorded on March 19th, 2025 where John & Jason talk the Microsoft Fabric February 2025 Feature Summary, specifically the Power BI...
Episode 287 - Microsoft Fabric January 2025 Feature Summary
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 287 recorded on March 13th, 2025 where John & Jason talk the Microsoft Fabric January 2025 Feature Summary including Python Notebo...
Episode 286 - Power BI January 2025 Feature Summary
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 286 recorded on March 12th, 2025 where John & Jason talk the Microsoft Fabric January 2025 Feature Summary, specifically the Power B...
Episode 285 - A conversation about Microsoft Fabric at ESPC
12 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 285 recorded live in Stockholm on December 3rd, 2024 where John & Jason talk about the expansion of the Microsoft Fabric ecosystem ann...
Episode 284 - Recap from FabCon Europe 2024
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 284 recorded on October 9th, 2024 where John & Jason talk the FabCon Europe 2024 and all of the announcements made there.
Episode 283 - Microsoft Fabric August 2024 Feature Summary
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 283 recorded on September 4th, 2024 where John & Jason talk the Microsoft Fabric August 2024 Feature Summary.
Episode 282 - Power BI August 2024 Feature Summary
27 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 282 recorded on August 23rd, 2024 where John & Jason talk the Power BI August 2024 Feature Summary including Ask Copilot questions aga...
Episode 281 - Interview With Charles Webb
13 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 281 recorded on August 9th, 2024 where John & Jason talk to Charles Webb, Principal PM Manager for Data Warehouse in Microsoft Fabric,...
Episode 280 - Interview with Josh Caplan
31 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 280 recorded on July 24th, 2024 where John & Jason talk to Josh Caplan, Principle Group Product Manager for OneLake in Microsoft Fabri...
Episode 279 - Power BI & Fabric June 2024 Feature Summary
16 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 279 recorded on July 11th, 2024 where John & Jason talk about the Microsoft Fabric, including Power BI, June 2024 Feature Summary incl...
Episode 278 - Microsoft Build 2024 News
28 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 278 recorded on May 24th, 2024 where John & Jason talk the news from Microsoft Build 2024 including lots of great new stuff for develo...
Episode 277 - Power BI & Fabric News
14 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 277 recorded on May 10th, 2024 where John & Jason talk the news in the Power BI space including Power Query support in paginated repor...
Episode 276 - Power BI April 2024 Feature Summary
03 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 276 recorded on April 22nd, 2024 where John & Jason talk the Power BI April 2024 Feature Summary including the announcements made at F...
Episode 275 - Power BI March 2024 Feature Summary
23 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 275 recorded on April 22nd, 2024 where John & Jason talk the Power BI March 2024 Feature Summary including on-object interactions upda...
Episode 274 - Power BI February 2024 Feature Summary
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 274 recorded on March 19th, 2024 where John & Jason talk the Power BI February 2024 Feature Summary including updates to Visual Cals, ...
Episode 273 - Interview with Alex Powers
12 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 273 recorded on January 26, 2024 where John & Jason talk to Alex Powers, Senior Program Manager on the Power BI CAT Team at Microsoft,...
Episode 272 - 2023 Predictions Review and New Predictions for 2024
17 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 272 recorded on January 12, 2024 where John & Jason do the annual year end wrap-up. Jason comes out ahead on his predictions from 2023...
Episode 271 - Power BI December 2023 Feature Summary
28 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 271 recorded on December 15rd, 2023 where John & Jason talk about the Power BI December 2023 Feature Summary including a Community upd...
Episode 270 - Traveling updates & a visit to CERN
05 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 270 recorded on December 3rd, 2023 live from the Autobahn where John & Jason talk about what they have been up to lately including pre...
Episode 269 - Power BI November 2023 Feature Summary part 2
29 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 269 recorded on November 22st, 2023 where John & Jason talk the Power BI November 2023 Feature Summary, part 2, including the new Expl...
Episode 268 - Power BI November 2023 Feature Summary part 1
21 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 268 recorded on November 21st, 2023 where John & Jason talk the Power BI November 2023 Feature Summary, for way too long and have to s...
Episode 267 - Microsoft Ignite 2023 - Fabric is GA
16 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 267 recorded on November 17th, 2023 where John & Jason talk about the release to GA of Microsoft Fabric and everything around it Mirro...
Episode 266 - Power BI October 2023 Feature Summary
26 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 266 recorded on October 19th, 2023 where John & Jason talk about the Power BI updates for October 2023 including the Power BI Desktop ...
Episode 265 - Power BI September 2023 Feature Summary and Power Platform Conference Wrapup
25 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 264 - Interview with Heather Cook
24 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Episode 263 - Power BI August 2023 Feature Summary
23 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 262 - Power BI July 2023 Feature Summary
17 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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, ...
Episode 261 - Community chat at EPPC
14 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 261 recorded on June 21st, 2023 where Jason talks with Microsoft MVPs & Community rockstars Laura Graham-Brown & Marc Lelijveld about ...
Episode 260 - Power BI June 2023 Feature Summary
21 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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-Obj...
Episode 259 - Fabric Licensing for Power BI
13 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Episode 258 - May 2023 Power BI Feature Summary
06 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Episode 257 - Power BI Developer mode with Rui Romano
29 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 up...
Episode 256 - News from Build with Gabi Münster
28 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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, a...
Episode 255 - Interview with Rosie Levasseur
02 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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-obj...
Episode 254 - Interview with Emily Lisa
25 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 253 - Interview with Zoe Douglas
17 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 str...
Episode 252 - April 2023 Power BI Updates
14 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Episode 251 - Power BI News Updates
27 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 inclu...
Episode 250 - Power BI March 2023 Feature Summary
17 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 249 - Power BI February 2023 Feature Summary
18 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 248 - Power BI 2023 release wave 1 plan
25 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 f...
Episode 247 - Interview with Scott Sewell
24 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 247 recorded January 20th, 2023 where John & Jason interview Scott Sewell, Principal Program Manager on the CAT Team at Microsoft, abo...
Episode 246 - Predictions show for 2023
10 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 246 recorded January 9th, 2023 where John & Jason review their wins & losses with their 2022 predictions and prognosticate about what ...
Episode 245 - Recap of Power BI in 2022
09 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 244 - News Wrap up for 2022
22 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 c...
Episode 243 - Power BI December 2022 Feature Summary
14 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 243 recorded December 14th, 2022 where John & Jason talk about the December 2022 Power BI updates which include Slicer type formatting...
Episode 242 - Power BI November 2022 Feature Summary
29 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 Acc...
Episode 241 - Exciting Paginated Reports News!
13 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 241 recorded November 11th, 2022 where John & Jason talk about the big news from Microsoft about Paginated Reports now being available...
Episode 240 - Interview with Mohammad Ali
08 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 240 recorded November 2nd, 2022 where Jason talks to Mohammad Ali, Principal Group Program Manager for the Creator Experiences in Powe...
Episode 239 - Power BI News Update
01 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 filtrat...
Episode 238 - Power BI October 2022 Feature Summary
21 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Episode 237 - Power BI announcements from Microsoft Ignite 2022
14 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 237 recorded October 6th, 2022 where John & Jason go over the announcements made at Microsoft Ignite 2022 including Explore and intera...
Episode 236 - Power BI September 2022 Feature Summary
07 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 236 recorded October 6th, 2022 where John & Jason go over the September 2022 Power BI updates which include Conditional formatting for...
Episode 235 - Interview with Ed Senez
14 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 worl...
Episode 234 - Interview with Alex Powers
01 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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, a...
Episode 233 - Power BI August 2022 Feature Summary
16 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 233 recorded August 12th, 2022 where John & Jason go over the August 2022 Power BI updates which include conditional formatting for da...
Episode 232 - Power BI- 2022 release wave 2 plan
26 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 item...
Episode 231 - Power BI July 2022 Feature Summary
19 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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, Er...
Episode 230 - Interview with Priya Sathy
30 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 230 recorded June 28th, 2022 where John & Jason talk to Priya Sathy, Group Program Manager in the Microsoft Intelligence Data Platform...
Episode 229 - Power BI June 2022 Feature Summary
21 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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, ...
Episode 228 - Catching up on the Power BI news
09 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 Workboo...
Episode 227 - Interview with Treb Gatte about Power BI metrics
02 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Episode 226 - Power BI announcements from Microsoft Build 2022
25 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 Powe...
Episode 225 - Power BI May 2022 Feature Summary
19 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 P...
Episode 224 - Power BI April 2022 Feature Summary
16 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 o...
Episode 223 - Interview with Laura Rogers
12 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 trai...
Episode 222 - Power BI March 2022 Feature Summary
23 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 g...
Episode 221 - Deep dive on Azure Data Explorer
15 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 220 - Power BI February 2022 Feature Summary
02 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 220 recorded on February 24th, 2022 where John & Jason go over the February 2022 Power BI updates including new mobile formatting opti...
Episode 219 - Exploring the Power BI Community with Kelly Kaye
25 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 o...
Episode 218 - Power BI 2022 release wave 1 plan
01 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 f...
Episode 217 - Power BI 2021 Year in Review
05 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 216 - Power BI December 2021 Feature Summary
28 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 216 recorded on December 22nd, 2021 where John & Jason go over the December 2021 Power BI updates including Sparklines in Table & Matr...
Episode 215 - Firing on all Synapses with Kim Manis
20 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 wh...
Episode 214 - Power BI News from Las Vegas
18 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 Nove...
Episode 213 - Power BI November 2021 Feature Summary - part 2
24 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 conn...