BIFocal - Clarifying Business Intelligence
Episodes
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...
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...