BIFocal - Clarifying Business Intelligence
Episodes
Episode 212 - Power BI November 2021 Feature Summary - part 1
17 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Episode 211 - Interview with Shane Young
12 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 211 recorded on November 10th, 2021 where John & Jason talk Shane Young, Principal Consultant at PowerApps911, Power Apps MVP, and You...
Episode 210 - Power BI News Update 210 - Microsoft Ignite Fall 2021 News
06 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 in...
Episode 209 - Real chat about Microsoft Ignite Fall 2021
27 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 208 - Power BI October 2021 Feature Summary
19 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 Ma...
Power BI News Update 207 - Power BI News Update
05 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Episode 206 - Power BI September 2021 Feature Summary
28 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 206 recorded on September 23rd, 2021 where John & Jason go over the September 2021 Power BI updates including New formatting options ...
Episode 205 - Interview with Patrick LeBlanc
22 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 Technic...
Episode 204 - Power BI News Update
09 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 p...
Episode 203 - Power BI August 2021 Feature Summary
02 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 203 recorded on August 27th, 2021 where John & Jason go over the August 2021 Power BI updates, including Default sensitivity label pol...
Episode 202 - Power BI News update
11 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ref...
Episode 201 - Power BI July 2021 Feature Summary
06 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 c...
Episode 200 - Live from SPFest Chicago 2021
02 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 Chic...
Episode 199 - Microsoft Power Platform_ 2021 release wave 2 plan
20 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 an...
Episode 198 - Interview with Treb Gatte
07 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 Powe...
Episode 197 - Power BI June 2021 Feature Summary
01 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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, Impro...
Episode 196 - June News Round-up
22 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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, Dat...
Episode 195 - Quickly create reports from SharePoint lists
15 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 Po...
Episode 194 - Interview with Andrew Brust
10 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 194 recorded on June 4th, 2021 where John & Jason about to Andrew Brust, Microsoft MVP & Regional Director, ZDNet contributor and much...
Episode 193 - Interview with Laura Graham-Brown
03 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 193 recorded on May 21st, 2021 where John & Jason about to Laura Graham-Brown, UK based BizApps MVP & trainer extraordinaire, about Sh...
Episode 192 - Power BI May 2021 Feature Summary
19 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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, Qu...
Episode 191 - Interview with Miguel Llopis
13 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 191 recorded on May 7th, 2021 where John & Jason interview Miguel Llopis, Principal Program Manager for Power Query and Dataflows abou...
Episode 190 - Interview with Arun Ulag
07 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Episode 189 - Power BI April 2021 Feature Summary
27 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 Pow...
Episode 188 - Interview with Heather Newman
20 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 188 recorded on April 16th, 2021 where John & Jason to Heather Newman, Principle Program Manager at Microsoft for Dynamics 365 & Power...
Episode 187 - Interview with Stephanie Bruno
16 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 187 recorded on April 13th, 2021 where John & Jason to Stephanie Bruno, Associate Director of Informatics at Elizabeth Glaser Pediatri...
Episode 186 - Community News
06 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 186 recorded on April 5th, 2021 where John & Jason about the news from around the Power BI & Collaboration community, reflecting on MV...
Episode 185 - Power BI News Updates
30 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 185 recorded on March 26th, 2021 where John & Jason about the news from March including VNet Connectivity for PBI Datasets, ODBC suppo...
Episode 184 - Power BI March 2021 Feature Summary
26 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 184 recorded on March 24th, 2021 where John & Jason about the Power BI March 2021 Feature Summary including the Advanced Data Selectio...
Episode 183 - Whither Power Pivot
15 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Episode 182 - Premium per User with Chris Finlan
09 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 182 recorded on March 4, 2021 where John & Jason talk to Microsoft Product Manager Chris Finlan about recent announcements around the ...
Episode 181 - Power BI February 2021 Feature Summary
01 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 181 recorded on February 26th, 2021 where John & Jason talk about the Power BI February 2021 Feature Summary including the DirectQuery...
Episode 180 - Interview with Melissa Coates
23 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 180 recorded on February 19th, 2021 where John & Jason talk with Melissa Coates, Data Platform MVP & the owner of Coates Data Strategi...
Episode 179 - Best Practices Analyzer in Tabular Editor
14 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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...
178 - Power BI 2021 Release Wave 1 Roadmap review
08 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 n...
Episode 177 - Tales From the Real World
25 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Episode 176 - Power BI News in 2021
12 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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, ...
Episode 175 - Interview with Christian Wade
05 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 175 recorded on December 15th, 2020 where John & Jason talk with Christian Wade about what's been happening around the enterprise capa...
Episode 174 - Power BI 2020 Hindsight
30 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Episode 173 - Power BI December 2020 Feature Summary
23 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 173 recorded on December 18th, 2020 where John & Jason talk about the Power BI December 2020 Feature Summary including the DirectQuery...
Episode 172 - Take 2- Interview with Tessa Hurr & Jeroen ter Heerdt
16 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 ann...
Episode 171 - Synapse & Purview announcements
07 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 171 recorded on December 4th, 2020 where John & Jason talk about Azure Synapse Analytics reaching general availability and the announc...
Episode 170 - Deeper Dive into recent Power BI news
29 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 170 recorded on November 13th, 2020 where John & Jason talk about Anomaly Detection & the Visual Data Prep public previews, and what’...
Episode 169 - Power BI November 2020 Feature Summary
22 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 L...
Episode 168 - Premium per User is here! Premium per User is here (in preview)!
16 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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, ...
Episode 167 - What election_ Let's talk about Power BI News
09 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 166 - Power BI October 2020 Feature Summary - Part 2
01 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Episode 165 - Power BI October 2020 Feature Summary - Part 1
26 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 quer...
Episode 164 - A Fall Cornucopia!
20 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 productiv...
Episode 163 - Blame Excel!
11 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Episode 162 - Power BI September 2020 Feature Summary
05 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 an...
Episode 161 - Interview with Chris Finlan
27 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 161 recorded on September 25th, 2020 where John & Jason talk with Chris Finlan, Principal Program Manager for Power BI at Microsoft, a...
Episode 160 - Microsoft Ignite Recap with those Guy in a Cube guys
25 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 160 recorded on September 22th, 2020 where John & Jason recap the Power BI News from Microsoft Ignite with Patrick Leblanc & Adam Saxt...
Episode 159 - Power BI News & Microsoft Ignite
13 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 158 - Catching up on the Power BI News
31 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 heade...
Episode 157 - Interview with Mike Carlo & Seth Bauer
24 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 ne...
Episode 156 - August 2020 Power BI Desktop Update
16 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 156 recorded on August 14th, 2020 where John & Jason talk about the August 2020 Power BI Desktop Update including dynamic formatting s...
Episode 155 - News & other updates
10 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 155, our 3rd anniversary episode, recorded on August 7th, 2020 where John & Jason talk about updates to Microsoft Teams, the new Micr...
Episode 154 - July 2020 Power BI Desktop Update
28 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 M...
Episode 153 - 2020 Release Wave 2 Plan for the Power BI Service review
17 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 152 - 2020 Release Wave 2 Plan for the Power BI Desktop review
10 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 151 - Visuals, Apps, Licensing & Picks
27 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 li...
Episode 150 - June 2020 Power BI Desktop Update
20 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 150, our sesquicentennial episode, recorded on June 17, 2020 where John & Jason talk about the June 2020 Power BI Desktop Update inclu...
Episode 149 - Creating Data Driven Subscriptions for Power BI Reports
13 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 148 - May 2020 News Recap
06 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 202...
Episode 147 - Interview with Will Thompson
31 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Episode 146 - May 2020 Power BI Desktop Update
23 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 E...
Episode 145 - April 2020 Power BI Desktop Update
16 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Episode 144 - MBAS 2020 Recap
08 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 144 recorded on May 7, 2020 where John & Jason recap announcements made during the Microsoft Business Applications Summit like connect...
Episode 143 - May the 4th be with you
05 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 143 recorded on May 4, 2020 where John & Jason talk about Microsoft Business Applications Summit, the delay of the April Desktop, Subr...
Episode 142 - Power BI News updates
17 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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, i...
Episode 141 - C'mon get Appy
13 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 announcemen...
Episode 140 - Exploring Azure Data Exlorer
04 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Episode 139 - Talk about COVID-19 data with Rob Foster
27 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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, abo...
Episode 138 - March 2020 Power BI Desktop Update
18 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 b...
Episode 137 - Going Viral
05 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 136 - February 2020 Power BI Desktop Update
20 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 136 recorded on February 18th, 2020 where John & Jason talk about the February 2020 Power BI Desktop Update including incremental refr...
Episode 135 - Early February Catch Up
07 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 134 - 2020 Foresight
31 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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....
Episode 133 - Get started with Power BI & Treb Gatte
26 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 133 recorded on January 24th, 2020 where John & Jason talk to Treb Gatte, CEO of Marquee Insights & Data Platform MVP, about getstarte...
Episode 132 - Welcome Back
18 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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 Tou...
Episode 131 - Hindsight for 2020
03 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
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....
Episode 130 - The Final version of Power BI Desktop... this year
22 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 edito...
Episode 129 - Power BI news from SharePoint Fest Chicago 2019
18 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 h...
Episode 128 - Interview with Dona Sarkar
27 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 128 recorded live at Microsoft Ignite on November 5th, 2019 where John & Jason talk to Dona Sarkar, Principal Advocate for the Microso...
Episode 127 - November 2019 Power BI Desktop Update
19 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 De...
Episode 126 - Ignite Wrap Up and Unconference Outcomes
15 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
Episode 125 - Round up with Adam Saxton
11 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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”...
Episode 124 - Interview with Arun Ulag
06 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Episode 123 - Microsoft Ignite "Know before you go" with Anna Chu
31 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 123 recorded on October 31st, 2019 where John & Jason talk to Anna Chu about Microsoft Ignite. She shares information about the upcomi...
Episode 122 October News Round up
30 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Episode 121 - October 2019 Power BI Desktop Update & News
16 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 121 recorded on October 15th, 2019 where John & Jason talk about the October Power BI Desktop features including Automatic page refres...
Episode 120 Power BI News update
03 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Episode 119 Power Platform 2019 Roadmap Wave 2 Plan
01 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 119 recorded on September 27th, 2019 where John & Jason talk through the Microsoft Power Platform 2019 Release Wave 2 Plan and highlig...
Episode 118 - September 2019 Power BI Desktop Update
21 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 118 recorded on September 19th, 2019 where John & Jason walk through the September 2019 Power BI Desktop update, and highlight some im...
Episode 117 Interview with Chris Webb
13 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Episode 116 - Interview with Marco Russo
06 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 b...
Episode 115 August 2019 Power BI Desktop Update & News
30 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 incl...
Episode 114 Live from SharePointFest Seattle with Chris Finlan
26 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This is episode 114 recorded on August 21st, 2019 where John & Jason talk to Chris Finlan, Principal Program Manager for Power BI, about his experienc...
Episode 113 Summer News Round Up
15 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
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 notific...