Explicit Measures Podcast

Mike, Seth, & Tommy continue their Implementation Tuesdays as they dive into what it means to have key results and measurable success. WE UNDERSTAND EPISODES 287 & 288 HAVE NOT BEEN RELEASED YET - WE ARE WORKING ON THIS! Get in touch: Send in your questions or topics you want us to discuss by tweeting to @PowerBITips with the hashtag #empMailbag or submit on the PowerBI.tips Podcast Page. Visit PowerBI.tips: https://powerbi.tips/ Watch the episodes live every Tuesday and Thursday morning at 730am CST on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/powerbitips Subscribe on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/230fp78XmHHRXTiYICRLVv Subscribe on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/explicit-measures-podcast/id1568944083‎ Check Out Community Jam: https://jam.powerbi.tips Follow Mike: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelcarlo/ Follow Seth: https://www.linkedin.com/in/seth-bauer/ Follow Tommy: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tommypuglia/

The hosts discuss the concept of creativity in business intelligence, exploring its role in report creation, adoption, and building a data culture. They also highlight the importance of fostering creativity in meetings, simplicity in data analysis, and its role in Microsoft fabric and Power BI adoption.

The hosts discuss the importance of strategic planning in Power BI implementation, differentiating between strategic and operational goals, analyzing the OKR framework and ownership of goals, the role of executive sponsors and resource allocation, and the importance of stakeholder involvement in Power BI implementation.

The podcast delves into the politics of data, covering topics such as challenges in adoption, data ownership struggles, building a data culture, implementing changes, and the importance of collaboration within organizations.

The podcast discusses the importance of identifying the right stakeholders and running workshops for Power BI implementation. It explores topics like designing interactive reports for Amazon products and using data from Minecraft. The benefits of storing data in a lake house and the challenges of scaling up and strategic planning are also discussed. Aligning business goals and focusing on metrics is highlighted as a key aspect of business intelligence.

The hosts reflect on Power BI features in 2023 and discuss their impact. They explore the need for additional training and the significance of Microsoft Fabric. They discuss color customization in apps, the introduction of the PBIP format, and differences between PBIP and PBIR file formats. They highlight efforts to make Power BI more developer-friendly and discuss the Tim d'il format and Power BI's new DAX query view.

The podcast discusses Microsoft's Power BI implementation planning, including the importance of assessments and workshops. They explore Project Sophia, an AI-powered business research canvas. They also talk about data sets and visuals, AI-based solutions, and the challenges of working with data in Excel.

The hosts discuss the challenges of integrating customer data from various platforms and the importance of finding software that can handle multiple data sources. They explore the barriers to customer understanding in organizations and the advancements in integrating different data sources in Power BI. They also discuss the benefits of keeping the source system clean and utilizing data virtualization within the fabric ecosystem. The chapter emphasizes the importance of holistic mirroring in data integration and establishing a data culture.

The hosts discuss giving Power BI gifts and rank them, talk about Christmas traditions and food, discuss the concept of a proactive AI called Co-Pilot for loading data, explore talking AI companion 'Alfy', discuss Elon Musk's AI 'grock' and its Twitter roasts, propose a feature for tracking bill back in Power BI, and have a lighthearted discussion about grading and ranking gifts in a Secret Santa exchange.

The podcast discusses Microsoft's article on semantic link and data validation using great expectations, Power BI's integration with PowerPoint, the new M connector and Delta table compatibility in Power BI Desktop, a potential revolutionary feature and a comparison of Azure Data Factory and Synapse Pipelines, retirement of Synapse and transition to using P bix, exploring the semantic link and its significance, and expressing gratitude to listeners for their support.