Benni De Jagere

Data governance is the foundation of trusted analytics and AI. In this hands-on workshop, discover how Microsoft Fabric and OneLake Catalog help organizations find, understand, secure, and govern data at scale.

As organizations deepen their adoption of Microsoft Fabric, the ability to operate, govern, and scale Fabric Capacities becomes a mission‑critical competency. This advanced session equips Tenant and Capacity administrators with proven strategies for monitoring, planning, and evolving capacity architecture over time.

Data governance is the foundation of trusted analytics and AI. In this session, discover how Microsoft Fabric and OneLake Catalog help organizations find, understand, secure, and govern data at scale.

Microsoft Fabric capacities are powerful, flexible, and at times deeply intricate. In this advanced session, we’ll unpack the full lifecycle of capacity behavior, starting with the fundamentals: how bursting delivers peak performance beyond SKU limits, how smoothing spreads compute usage across timepoints, and how throttling protects shared resources under sustained load.

A full-day, hands-on tutorial to master Microsoft Fabric Capacities end-to-end. Understand what capacities are and how design decisions affect cost, performance, and user experience.

You’re familiar with Fabric Capacities and how some of the core concepts like Bursting, Smoothing, and Throttling are different from what you’ve seen in other products and solutions? Great!

As organizations deepen their adoption of Microsoft Fabric, the ability to operate, govern, and scale Fabric Capacities becomes a mission‑critical competency. This advanced session equips Tenant and Capacity administrators with proven strategies for monitoring, planning, and evolving capacity architecture over time.

Microsoft Fabric offers a wide range of options to define permissions for both item and data access, using different scopes of the platform. As options keep evolving, it's a challenge to determine a viable permission strategy that works for the use cases at hand, offers business users the flexibility they are looking…

Microsoft Fabric offers a wide range of options to define permissions for both item and data access, using different scopes of the platform. As options keep evolving, it's a challenge to determine a viable permission strategy that works for the use cases at hand, offers business users the flexibility they are looking for, and passes those dreaded security checks to be able to move to production. Focusing on a typical lakehouse architecture for data analysis using Microsoft Fabric, we'll explore the different options that exist to provide access to items and define data security rules. We'll discuss how these different options can impact business users, walking through pros and cons, and providing examples that are manageable and usable at scale. Above all, the guiding principle of least privileged access is our north star, making sure we do our part to keep company data safe. We'll tie personas and use cases to common data access patterns and assess how Microsoft Fabric can help us get the data closer to where the business user is, helping them to make better informed decisions using validated data. After wrapping up the walkthrough, people should feel informed about the different options that exist, empowered to make their own decisions based on their own use cases and requirements, and reassured that it really isn't that complicated as it seems.

Keeping your Microsoft Fabric environment healthy requires visibility across dataflows, pipelines, real‑time ingestion, semantic models, and user activity. In this session, we take an end‑to‑end tour of the monitoring capabilities available in Fabric today.

Fast tour of the Fabric Capacity Metrics App; learn to read key visualisations, spot performance issues, understand capacity behavior, and turn insights into quick, actionable optimizations to keep your Fabric environment running smoothly.

How can admins manage and govern Copilot in Fabric: access control, data residency, security, capacity monitoring, and audit logs, giving you the knowledge to support governance and help your organization use Copilot effectively.

Discover how to prepare and optimize your Power BI data for AI-driven experiences. We’ll cover best practices for refining your semantic model to help Copilot deliver higher‑quality, more meaningful insights. You’ll also get practical guidance and early demos of upcoming capabilities that use AI...

In this panel debate, four practitioners with extensive, real-world Fabric experience come together to discuss what actually works when administering Fabric at scale. Benni de Jagere (Microsoft CAT), Just Blindbæk (Tabular Editor), Lars Andersen (Microsoft CAT), and Ásgeir Gunnarsson (data lab)...

Discover the latest in Fabric security and governance enhancements:• Fabric Policies (Public Preview) – Fabric admins can define precise, flexible controls in one central place.

You’re familiar with Fabric Capacities and how some of the core concepts like Bursting, Smoothing, and Throttling are different from what you’ve seen in other products and solutions? Great!

Join us for a comprehensive workshop designed for Fabric administrators and those who want to understand the administrative capabilities within Microsoft Fabric. Whether you are stepping into the role of a Fabric administrator, aspire to do so, or simply want to collaborate more effectively with administrators, this…

You’re familiar with Fabric Capacities and how some of the core concepts like Bursting, Smoothing, and Throttling are different from what you’ve seen in other products and solutions? Great!

You've decided to take the plunge, and create a brand new session you want to share with the world? Maybe you've tried a few times already, and didn't manage to find a place to present?

You’re familiar with Fabric Capacities and how some of the core concepts like Bursting, Smoothing, and Throttling are different from what you’ve seen in other products and solutions? Great!

Copilot in Microsoft Fabric opens up a world of possibilities for business users, data analysts, and data engineers, making it no surprise that interest is surging within your organization. As an administrator, it’s crucial to grasp what Copilot can do, its limitations, and the implications for...

Many companies store data in Delta Parquet files for analytics but struggle with complexity and self-service access. Microsoft Fabric’s Direct Lake mode for Power BI enables high performance and low latency over Lakehouse data. Learn to optimize and analyze at scale!

Copilot in Microsoft Fabric opens up a world of possibilities for business users, data analysts, and data engineers, making it no surprise that interest is surging within your organization. As an administrator, it’s crucial to grasp what Copilot can do, its limitations, and the implications for your existing…

You’re familiar with Fabric Capacities and how some of the core concepts like Bursting, Smoothing, and Throttling are different from what you’ve seen in other products and solutions? Great!

Copilot in Microsoft Fabric opens up a world of possibilities for business users, data analysts, and data engineers, making it no surprise that interest is surging within your organization. As an administrator, it’s crucial to grasp what Copilot can do, its limitations, and the implications for your existing…

Perhaps you've seen "Star Schema ALL the things!", "Never use Calculated Columns", or "Bi-Directional relationships suck" before when thinking about design considerations for your data model, but you've never really stopped to think about the specifics behind them and why exactly they could benefit or hurt your model.…

Many companies have invested heavily in building data lakes to store large volumes of structured and unstructured data from various sources into Delta Parquet files. These Delta Parquet files can be used for a wide range of Analytics and Business Intelligence applications.

Microsoft Fabric introduced the concept of Dataflows (Gen 2) to the general public. Fabric Dataflows enable users to access and leverage data from different environments and sources in a low/no code way within Fabric.

Microsoft Power BI is all the rage, with enterprise and user adoption soaring year after year. New users get onboarded, reports,models, dashboards, dataflows, .. get created and tweaked every day. Whoa, things must be going great if we have so many things happening every day! Right? And yet, as the usage skyrockets in our organisation, it's crucial to keep a solid oversight of the artefacts and activities generated by our colleagues. All too often, organisations have procedures, governance models, methodologies, and more in place, without having a structural way of making sure it actually works for the business processes. Enabling the business to make their decision on usage information for their artefacts will assist them in making informed decisions. Making sure this information gets to Data Stewards (workspace owners) is often left untouched, as there's no ready to go solution out there. This session will focus on creating a Self-Service Power BI model and report, where users can follow up on activities performed on artefacts in their zone of control. We'll start with collecting the necessary information through various APIs, defining a model with Row-Level Security, and layer a Power BI Report on top of this. Leveraging a solution like this, can drastically improve the general overview of the general usage of Power BI in the organisation, and make informed decisions for the BI Information Delivery flow.

Many companies have invested heavily in building data lakes to store large volumes of structured and unstructured data from various sources into Delta Parquet files. These Delta Parquet files can be used for a wide range of Analytics and Business Intelligence applications.

This session will focus on the life of a Power BI Admin moving over to the extended Fabric realm, and keeping their things in check. We'll look at the familiar topics of capacity and workspace management, and how they align with the new workloads that have been introduced. We'll notice there's a...

Join us for a discussion and ask-us-anything round with some members of the Fabric product team, Fabric CAT (Customer Advisory Team). Prepare your sessions around the topic of analytics in the Microsoft space..

May 23rd 2023 will be remembered by many as a day that shook the Data & AI ecosystem for Microsoft, potentially even beyond. Many of the Power BI Admins lived their life of dealing with the woes and worries of a reporting environment, until that very day a few things were made public.

When gathering requirements for your new model and reports, you've probably heard it before.. "We want to get real-time results from our source", or "We don't want to store data in Power BI, because it's already in the cloud".

Join us on an exciting journey as we dive into Microsoft Fabric to explore the exciting new possibilities. In this session, we will explore the new workload options that Microsoft Fabric brings to the table and demonstrate how they can energize your data analytics experience. During the guided tour, we will navigate through the key features and functionalities of Microsoft Fabric, and shedding light on its seamless integration with Power BI. We will showcase how this powerful combination allows users to leverage the full potential of their data to gain valuable insights and make data-driven decisions. Throughout the session, you will discover: 1. Introduction to Microsoft Fabric: Gain a fundamental understanding of the platform and its core principles, highlighting its ability to handle diverse workloads efficiently. 2. Capacities, and how they work. How exactly are they different from what you’re used to with other Azure Data Services? 3. Workload Options: Explore the newly introduced workload options provided by Microsoft Fabric and understand how they complement and enhance Power BI's capabilities. 4. Integration with Power BI: Witness the seamless integration between Microsoft Fabric and Power BI, enabling users to seamlessly transition from data ingestion to data visualization and reporting. Whether you are a data analyst, business intelligence professional, or an executive looking to unlock the true potential of your data, this session will provide you with valuable insights and practical knowledge about Microsoft Fabric from a Power BI perspective. Join us to discover the next frontier of data analytics and embark on a journey towards data-driven excellence.

Have you ever asked a question, only to get a vague answer? Tired of hearing 'It Depends'? Or maybe you've even been frustrated that you're not getting the answer you were hoping for. Asking questions is a very powerful tool, but can be bothersome to wield. By making sure we're supplying the other party with the compact information they need, and making sure we're "forcing" them to give a decent answer, there's a lot more information we can receive. By getting the information we need, we'll be able to proceed quicker, and getting to results faster. It can be a tricky process, but with a few basic things to keep in mind, we can continually improve ourselves, for a better understanding.

Many companies have invested heavily in building data lakes to store large volumes of structured and unstructured data from various sources into Delta Parquet files. These Delta Parquet files can be used for a wide range of Analytics and Business Intelligence applications.

So you've built a Power BI report with all the shinies? Good! After some usage, users have reacted that it's a bit sluggish in usage, and they're not keen on using it anymore. Starting off with the new Performance Analyzer Pane, we'll demonstrate how you can pinpoint bottlenecks in your report, and take actions on these insights. With the myriad of root causes that are out there, an elimination approach might suit us very well. Some of the main causes will be explained, and we'll get you going on how you can fix it for yourselves. This talk will place emphasis on leveraging external free community tools to assess the state of the data model, and go further on fixing the groundworks of your solution. Attendees should note that is not a DAX Deep Dive class, before wandering in :-)

So you've built a Power BI report with all the shinies? Good! After some usage, users have reacted that it's a bit sluggish in usage, and they're not keen on using it anymore. Starting off with the new Performance Analyzer Pane, we'll demonstrate how you can pinpoint bottlenecks in your report, and take actions on these insights. With the myriad of root causes that are out there, an elimination approach might suit us very well. Some of the main causes will be explained, and we'll get you going on how you can fix it for yourselves. This talk will place emphasis on leveraging external free community tools to assess the state of the data model, and go further on fixing the groundworks of your solution. Attendees should note that is not a DAX Deep Dive class, before wandering in :-)