Nightmare on Federation St. featuring Power BI & Power Apps

HALLOWE'EN SPECIAL
Date: Thursday 31st October 2019
Location: The Federation - Federation Street - Manchester

Guest speakers are Erik Svensen , Michal Chmelár & Jamie Dowdall

Talks on:

“PowerBI and PowerApps - update your budget from PowerBI and see the effect immediately” - in the session Erik will demonstrate how you can use PowerApps within your PowerBI report and update your budget and see the effect instantly in your report. See how you build a datamodel using a combination of imported mode and direct query and use PowerApps within your report to update the budget and and the same time see the updated figures in your report right away.

Power BI as a universal analytic tool
In Power BI, you can also do other kinds of analysis than just business analytics. In this session from Michal you’ll see, how you can use Power BI together with cloud services for quick check of facts from freely available data sources, even if they aren’t published in a particularly suitable format. You will also see, how you can quickly analyse unstructured text (e.g. communication with customers). At the end we will take a look at PowerApps, using which you can not only quickly create a new business app in your web browser, but also integrate it in your Power BI reports, so that you can quickly react to results and take action from a single environment.

PowerApps demo & walthrough
He will give an intro on how PowerApps fits into the PowerPlatform. His talk will be a Use Case walk through example of what can be achieved using PowerApps and how it has benefited the business

Speakers:

Erik Svensen
Microsoft MVP - Data Platform
Information worker and Business Intelligence specialist in a wide variety of business applications. Particularly interested MS Excel, MS-SQL Server, Analysis services and Reporting services.
Have worked with large retailers in creating BI solutions to use category management at chain and store level using the ECR standards.
Now focusing on getting POS data to work as key data in BI solutions enabling my customers to make more effective strategic, tactical and operational insights and decision-making.
Have been a speaker at SQL Saturday Copenhagen in 2013 and 2014, Data BI summit 2018 and several Power BI usergroups, Power BI Saturday Paris 2018
Specialities: Excel, OLAP, MDX, Reporting services, PowerPivot, SharePoint, Visualisation, Azure Analysis Services, M, DAX, Power BI Desktop a

Michal Chmelár is top expert for Power BI, PowerPivot and the DAX language. He is author of Power-BI.sk and PowerPivot.sk blogs, which are the largest blogs about Power BI and PowerPivot in Slovakia and Czech republic. He’s also an author of a Slovak book about Power BI – “Reporting for Power BI, PowerPivot & DAX”.

Jamie Dowdall - Power Apps consultant at Arcadis

Agenda:

17:15 - 18:00 Registration & doors open

18:00 - 20:15 Talks from Erik Svensen, Michal Chmelár & Jamie Dowdall

20:15 Pizza, Drinks & an opportunity to network.

Pizza & Beers :) provided by our sponsors Robert Walters