In this episode of Kasper On BI we’re talking about agentic AI for Business Intelligence. Agentic development brings AI agents into the BI workflow—helping Power BI developers automate repetitive tasks, orchestrate complex changes, and plug safely into enterprise tools like Microsoft Fabric. As this technology is still in early stages we will talk about why it is important to really think about what you are doing and where to start. Also to make sure you teach or train the model to do the right things and don’t blindly trust it.
Today’s guest is Kurt Buhler, Power BI specialist and author of the recent SQLBI article on agentic development for BI. Together we’ll walk through real scenarios—from augmented chat to coding agents and asynchronous agents—and discuss what’s possible right now, what’s emerging, and how to get started safely in your own environment.
Your host is Kasper de Jonge, Principal Program manager on the Fabric team at Microsoft.
This episode is also available as podcast on your favorite podcast provider like iTunes or Spotify.
Links from the episode:
Kurt on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kurtbuhler/
Kurt’s YouTube channels: https://www.youtube.com/@Data-Goblins
Kurts episodes on AI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otm4Ft1WYv4
And on MCP’s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og3z1SyW6HQ
Kurts blogs and whitepaper: https://www.sqlbi.com/articles/introducing-ai-and-agentic-development-for-business-intelligence/
https://tabulareditor.com/blog/what-is-an-ai-agent-for-semantic-models
https://tabulareditor.com/blog/reports-or-conversational-bi-why-this-decision-matters
https://tabulareditor.com/blog/how-bi-tools-could-change-with-mcp-servers-and-ai-integration
Kurts blog: https://data-goblins.com/
NY times AI podcast: https://www.nytimes.com/column/hard-fork
Satya Nadella’s prompts : https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/5-prompts-supercharge-your-everyday-workflow-satya-nadella-ryv5c/