#PBIMCR February - MVP Special feat. Ben Howard & Nikola Ilic

PBIMCR Thursday 24th Feb

Guest Speakers
Ben Howard & Nikola Ilic
Location: Robert Walters - Number 1 Spinningfields Office - M3 3EB

MS Teams link: https://tinyurl.com/PBIMCRFEB

Topics
Automating Microsoft Planner reporting using Power Automate and Power BI - Ben Howard
https://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/PublicProfile/4025321?fullName=Ben%20Howard

In this session you’ll learn how we can use two components of the Power Platform to provide organisation wide reporting on task status in Microsoft Planner, using Power Automate and Power BI. However, this isn’t just about Planner, the concepts I’ll show and discuss can be used widely within an organisation and show how the Power Platform can be used to solve real life problems. Also, this session provides a gentle introduction into the Power Automate and Planner, as well as digging into Power BI. Finally, the whole soln is available for download on GitHub, so after the session attendees will be able to implement this in their own organisations

Power BI Performance - 7 Deadly Sins! by Nikola Ilic
https://mvp.microsoft.com/en-us/PublicProfile/5004211?fullName=Nikola%20Ilic

Congratulations! You've built your shiny fancy Power BI report and your charts look terrific. But, your data refresh takes forever...Or, your report is utterly slow when interacting with visuals...You switch to DirectQuery mode to make things better, just to discover that the report performance sucks even more...

And, if you feel lost, I don't blame you - I've also been there!

That's why this session is for you: we will examine potential bottlenecks in your Power BI report - starting with defining the best practices for data model size optimization, understanding the importance of query folding feature, all the way to identifying culprits for your slow report rendering. We will wrap it up with learning when and why (not) to use DirectQuery mode, and how to apply improvements on the data source side to make things faster in the Power BI.

5:30 doors open
6:00pm start - Alex intro followed by Ben and Nikola
7:30pm Q & A .. followed by Pizza and Drinks
8:30pm close.

For 2022 all sessions will be streamed LIVE via MS Teams and uploaded to PBIMCR Youtube channel afterwards.