Adam Saxton

With Microsoft Fabric now available, some Power BI users might have questions about what it means for them. In this session, we will cover all the current and new features and capabilities that are important to you.

As businesses transition to the cloud and leverage advanced analytics, understanding the nuances of data infrastructure becomes paramount. Microsoft Fabric offers a suite of powerful tools designed to handle various data workloads, but the key to harnessing its full potential lies in understanding which tool to use and when.

Power BI has many capabilities for business analytics not just for reporting but also managing your data and allowing for scale of items. In this demo-heavy session, you will learn about hidden items that most folks aren’t aware of or just don’t think about. You will learn about how these items work and understand how they can help you leverage them in your solution.

New to Microsoft Fabric? We will explore the incredible potential of Fabric, a cutting-edge data platform designed to unlock the full power of your data and artificial intelligence (AI).

Start your journey using Power BI and Azure Synapse Analytics. From the options available to how to leverage effectively, this will position you well to get the most out of your data.

When you started working in Power BI you only had a few million rows or data or the data latency requirements were non-existent. Now all of that has change, the data volume is billions of rows and/or data latency must be less than 5 seconds. How do you manage these challenges with Power BI. Join this demo-heavy session where we will explain and demonstrate how.

Join Adam Saxton and Patrick LeBlanc in this exiting keynote to kick off the conference and celebrate the synergy between Power BI and Azure Synapse. What to expect? Pure madness as they don't come out of their cubes that often! In reality, loads of demo's, a blistering fast pace, and some friends to help you shout 'Yooo' at the top of your lungs. Feel the rhythm, feel the rhyme. Come on CATs, it's keynote time!

Join "Guy In A Cube" stars and Microsoft product leaders for this rare "Ask Me Anything" QA session. Adam Saxton and Patrick LeBlanc from Microsoft are bringing their wildly-popular weekly live QA chat to Oregon SQL.

Wow, Power BI is making a tidal wave in the BI industry. New features are being released regularly, blog posts are flying across twitter. How can you keep up? In this full day session, we will explain and demonstrate how to begin using Power BI effectively within your organization. This will include preparing your organization for Power BI, deciding if you need to build an SSAS Semantic Model or will the Power BI desktop work as an alternative. In addition, there will be a few hand-on labs that will help each attendee get started working with both the Power BI Desktop and the Power BI Service. Bring your laptop, grab a cup of coffee (or beverage of choice) and get ready to learn. • Getting and shaping data • Working with your data model • A look at DAX • Visuals and your report • Tips and tricks you may not have known about • Taking your report to the next level • Publishing • Power BI service features • Connecting to and Refreshing Data And more…

We will explore some practical and common performance problems that customers encounter when using Power BI. From report design to your data, we will cover different aspects of Power BI to get you thinking about how to use the service within your organization.

Most of us are overwhelmed with data from all the different applications that we use on a daily basis. Bringing all the data together is often a very time-consuming and sometimes a challenging process.