Artur König

Fabric Planning is a big step for Fabric as a problem-solving platform. In many Power BI and Fabric projects I was asked at some point if it is possible to plan and how to writeback data that was obviously managed in Excel before.

Can we control a Lego Robot from a Power BI dashboard..? With User Data Functions and APIs a lot of things are possible - and we bring together three of the best ones: the Microsoft Data Platform, Robots and Lego! The User Data Functions (also called Translytical Task Flows by Microsoft) are like Azure Functions in Fabric and can trigger a varienty of actions, including external APIs - from Fabric and also directly from Power BI Dashboards. This opens the way to some interactive usage of Power BI Dashboard that was not possible before. The Lego Education Prime product line supports Python and APIs - and offers the possibility to send commands from external tools to our own built Lego robots. So we have everything together for some Robot fun in the real world - controlled by a Power BI Dashboard. Shall we call it Tr3nslytical now? The Idea behind: After we have successfully read data from Cameras with Real-Time-Analytics in 2025, we go from "insights to action" in 2026 and start actions to the real world from the Fabric Ecosystem. What could be better than controlling Lego Robots?