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BIFocal - Clarifying Business Intelligence

John & Jasonwww.bifocal.show
Podcast by John White & Jason Himmelstein
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Episodes

Episode 117 Interview with Chris Webb

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

Sep 13, 201949 min

Episode 116 - Interview with Marco Russo

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

Sep 06, 201947 min

Episode 115 August 2019 Power BI Desktop Update & News

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

Aug 30, 201938 min

Episode 114 Live from SharePointFest Seattle with Chris Finlan

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

Aug 26, 201937 min

Episode 113 Summer News Round Up

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

Aug 15, 201939 min

Episode 112 Changing the laws of Physics with Christian Wade

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

Aug 08, 201945 min

Episode 111 July 2019 Power BI Desktop Update

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

Aug 02, 201928 min

Episode 110 - All About Ignite with Anna Chu

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

Jul 29, 201928 min

Episode 109 - Interview with Reid Havens

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

Jul 23, 201939 min

Episode 107 - Power BI News & MVP Renewals

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

Jul 03, 201931 min

Episode 105 - June 2019 Power BI Desktop Update

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

Jun 18, 201938 min

Episode 104 - Power BI Keynote from MBAS

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

Jun 11, 201919 min

Episode 103 - Community Update & MBAS chatter

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

Jun 09, 201925 min

Episode 102 - May 2019 News Update

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

Jun 01, 201928 min

Episode 100 - A measurable milestone

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

May 17, 201933 min

Episode 99 - Interview with Abram Jackson & Tyler Lenig

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

May 08, 201937 min

Episode 98 - Power BI News

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

May 04, 201927 min

Episode 97 - Interview with Matthew Roche

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

Apr 25, 201951 min

Episode 96 - April 2019 Power BI Desktop Update & more news

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

Apr 16, 201935 min

Episode 95 - Holy Power BI news!

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

Apr 09, 201938 min

Episode 94 - Interview with Aviv Ezrachi

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

Apr 02, 201939 min

Episode 93 - Interview with Kim Manis

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

Mar 28, 201925 min

Episode 92 - March 2019 Power BI Desktop Update

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

Mar 19, 201929 min

Episode 91 - Interview with Shane Young

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

Mar 13, 201931 min

Episode 90 - News & using Power BI with Microsoft Teams

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

Mar 06, 201928 min

Episode 89 - February 2019 Power BI Desktop Update

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

Feb 26, 201929 min

Episode 88 - Catching up on the news

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

Feb 24, 201924 min
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