Kasper On BI

In this episode of Kasper On BI we are talking about AI, Machine Learning and Power BI. What is AI and Machine Learning? What is the difference? How has it evolved over time? What is the future and how can we use it in Power BI? The expert on today’s episode is Rafal Lukawiecki. Rafal is a Data Scientist at his training and consulting company Project Botticelli Ltd. He has been around for over a... Read more

In this episode of Kasper On BI we are talking about the history of Business Intelligence at Microsoft with one of the early founders and Technical Fellow at Microsoft Amir Netz. We talk about the rise of MOLAP and the dominance of Enterprise BI at Microsoft and the rise of Self-service BI tools that brought Microsoft to a tipping point. With that came the rise of PowerPivot with its groundbreaking column store engine VertiPaq, PowerView... Read more

In this episode of Kasper On BI we are talking about rolling out Power BI in a large organization. What is a Center of Excellence? How does a it help your users get more of out their data? What are the roles and responsibilities for the COE? Finally, how to guide users that need to make decisions with data but don’t have a BI or programmer background. The expert on today’s episode is Alex Garcia.... Read more

Some time ago I had the honor to be a guest on the Raw Data By P3 podcast. The episode got released yesterday. I had a lot of fun here, it was great to catch up with @robcolli3 and @SQLRockstar and talk about the rise of #powerpivot and #powerbi, basketball, rising sea levels and working at #microsoft! They also made this awesome Gif that I wanted to share here: Listen to it here: Kasper de... Read more

In this episode of Kasper On BI we are talking about Power BI Dataflows, how to position it, where to use it and general best practices. The expert on today’s episode is Matthew Roche, Program Manager on the Power BI Customer Advisory Team. Matthew has a wealth of background in software development and teaching before joining Microsoft. At Microsoft he worked on SSIS, MDS and data lineage before joining the Power BI CAT team where... Read more

On this episode of Kasper On BI we are talking with Kim Manis, Kim is the group Program manager on the Power BI team responsible for all creation and consumption of content (this includes Power BI desktop). In this episode we talk about what how she got started at Microsoft and what it means to be a Program manager. We will also discuss how features at get prioritized; how do we pick the features to... Read more

I have been spending less time on blogging as I am spending more and more time on my new Kasper On BI format. In this episode of Kasper On BI we are talking about on making the journey from Excel to Power BI with Shannon Lindsey. Shannon has no computer background but gradually starting to work with data through Excel. Then she found PowerQuery in Excel which led to Power BI. We will talk about... Read more