Podcast by John White & Jason Himmelstein
This podcast will teach beginner & intermediate Microsoft Excel users the different Excel tools like: Formulas, Pivot Tables, Charting, Analysis, Macros, VBA, Dashboards, Power BI, Add-Ins, Shortcuts plus much more. I interview Excel MVPs and experts around the world to share their Excel insights, knowledge, tips and tricks that will get you on the way to becoming an advanced Excel user, just like them.
Hosted by Carlos L Chacon, the SQL Data Partners Podcast focuses on Microsoft data platform related topics mixed with a sprinkling of professional development. Carlos and guests discuss new and familiar features and ideas and how you might apply them in your environments. Visit our website for episode show notes at sqldatapartners.com/podcast and leave a comment if you have a topic you think we should discuss. We’ll see YOU on the SQL Trail.
The Intrazone, a show about the Microsoft 365 intelligent intranet. This show takes you into the building blocks of your Microsoft 365 intranet. It's about how SharePoint, OneDrive, Teams, Yammer and more fit into your everyday work life – with the goal being to share and manage content, knowledge, and applications to empower teamwork throughout your organization. Hosted by the Microsoft 365 team, along with special guests and experts from both behind the scenes and out in the field, the sho ...
Raw Data by P3 Adaptive is a podcast hosted by Rob Collie, CEO of P3 Adaptive-A Gold Microsoft Partner. Rob and his guests share their expertise and insight about Business Intelligence , Power BI, and the world of data...with the human element! The Raw Data By P3 Adaptive podcast fits our "mullet" approach: business in the front and a bit of party in the back!
Analytics on Fire is your backstage pass inside the enterprise analytics and business intelligence world. Join your host BI author, speaker, and co-founder, Mico Yuk (BI Brainz) as she pulls back the curtain on what’s working right now in the enterprise analytics/business intelligence world and what is not. You’ll hear the inside scoop from experienced business leaders on how to plan, implement and gain true business value from your analytics dollars. Visit analyticsonfire.com to subscribe a ...
The Show will provide you news, information, and opinion on the latest in Cloud and Hybrid technologies.
A podcast that marries business and technology to help businesses and individuals leverage technology to accelerate growth. Brought to you biweekly by Eric Clark and Shane Kroening at SWICKtech.
The IJYI Way Podcast is about the inner workings of a software delivery startup, covering everything from business, finance, software development, agile delivery and DevOps.
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Ep 73 Data Download pt2 - Chris Seferlis - IoT-AI-PowerBI
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Chris Seferlis joins us to discuss announcements that occurred during Ignite Spring Edition in the AI and PowerBI space Microsoft Percept Microsoft AI PowerBI For more information on Aspirant, visit www.aspirant.com Follow Chris's YouTube channel HERE! Chris on Twitter HERE! Produced by Michael Askins For more information on Aspirant, visit www.asp…
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80: The Human Element of Digital Transformation w/ Rick Montgomery
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Hey AOF! Today I am joined by one of my first mentors in the BI industry, Rick Montgomery, to unpack why and how you can add the human element to digital transformation. Rick is the Co-Founder of Analysis Factory, an end-to-end business intelligence company based in Boston, Massachusetts that specializes in developing data visualizations that map o…
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Episode 188 - Interview with Heather Newman
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This is episode 188 recorded on April 16th, 2021 where John & Jason to Heather Newman, Principle Program Manager at Microsoft for Dynamics 365 & Power Platform Community Success, about her new role at Microsoft and all the great stuff they are doing to support and promote the Community. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show…
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Ep 77 - April Data Download w Chris Seferlis - You Migrated Data Now What?
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Chris Seferlis joins us to continue our conversation on migrating data. So now it's there, What's Next? Azure Synapse Azure Data Bricks Microsoft AI PowerBI Comment on Twitter or LinkedIn on which area you would like to see a deep dive! Video of the week: Comparing Azure Synapse, Snowflake, and Databricks For more information on Aspirant, visit www…
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Episode 187 - Interview with Stephanie Bruno
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This is episode 187 recorded on April 13th, 2021 where John & Jason to Stephanie Bruno, Associate Director of Informatics at Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation & Data Platform MVP, about the Power BI Community, her work with the Foundation, The Data-Witches blog, and the changes coming in her world.For show notes please visit www.bifocal.sh…
With both Kevin and Eugene busy this week, Carlos went solo to share a few changes to the podcast, including the Twitch livestream moving to Tuesday, how you can support the podcast, and podcast episodes going back to being published every other Wednesday. If you have a subject that you’d like to chat about on the podcast with us, we’d love to sche…
Krissy Dyess is a prime example of inspiration and adaptability. She made a decision to better her knowledge of the updated and evolving BI tools through self-teaching, and with help from the amazing data community. She went from being stuck in a cubicle, to being a team leader at one of the best BI consulting firms in the world. And she creates ex…
In this episode, Chris and Mark talk with Sam Crewdson (senior program manager, Microsoft) about his role managing Microsoft Web (MSW) on SharePoint. MSW is Microsoft's internal company portal, built for its 163,000 full-time employees. We discuss MSW over time - from on-premises to the cloud, from classic to modern, establishing it as a home site,…
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79: Behind the Scenes – Creating two Epic Dataviz Templates w/ Raquel Seville and Anna Ria
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Welcome to another exciting masterclass! Today I’m taking you behind the scenes of how two women leaders on our BI Brainz team, created not one, but two of our most downloaded dashboard templates ever! To share these juicy details, we are joined by Raquel Seville, CEO of BI Brainz Caribbean, and Anna Ria, our very own Head of Design and well-known …
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Ep 76 - Digital Discovery Gains Insights Into Your Business w/ Joe Kossler
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Joe Kossler from Aspirant joins us to discuss Digital Discovery, what it is, and how it can help your organization. We also look back at the year so far and list some of our favorite shows this year! Video of the Week Digital Discovery Promo Joe Kossler on LinkedIn For more information on Aspirant visit www.aspirant.com Aspirant on LinkedIn and Fac…
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029: 101 Best Excel Tips & Tricks Book Launch + My Top 10 Tips & Tricks
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In this episode we discuss our 3rd and latest Excel book that we launched today called the 101 BEST EXCEL TIPS & TRICKS! We go through the amazing tips that you will find in this book plus I talk about my Top 10 favorite Excel Tips & Tricks inside this book. You can purchase this book today in Amazon using this link. Don't forget to also check out …
Gordon Rowe III's nickname among his peers is The Gandalf of Data, and for good reason-he's truly a wizard when it comes to the unconventional tools that he uses. What he does with the 2010 version of PowerPivot will blow your mind! He works in the nursery and horticulture space with North Creek Nurseries. Gordon knows his woody plants...and his DA…
This is episode 186 recorded on April 5th, 2021 where John & Jason about the news from around the Power BI & Collaboration community, reflecting on MVP Summit, as well as a discussion on Premium per User now being GA.For show notes please visit www.bifocal.showBy John White & Jason Himmelstein
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Ep 75 - Business Challenges with Technology Series PT1 w/ Justin Snyder
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Today we kick off a limited series where we discuss some challenges that businesses have with technology. We dive into: Don't Wait For It To Break Employee Frustrations Ownership and Accountability But first, we cover some Tech News: Robot World Sharepoint Viva Connections replacing SharePoint Home Teams Supervisor mode - In Edu and Business Teams …
Who better to talk about the past, present, and future of BI than Microsoft Corporate Vice President of the Business Intelligence Platform Arun Ulag. We're all excited for the upcoming Microsoft Business Applications Launch Event on April 6th! References in this Episode: Monty Python Camelot Scene Dirty Daxing Tweet Something About Mary 7 Minute Ab…
March 2021 brought some great new offerings: Microsoft Viva Connections, SharePoint app bar, Focus mode for SharePoint pages and news, images in SharePoint Events web part, SharePoint page analytics, Integrate menu for Microsoft Lists, Graph-based people picker for Person columns, Box migration into Microsoft 365, guest access in Yammer, and more. …
This is episode 185 recorded on March 26th, 2021 where John & Jason about the news from March including VNet Connectivity for PBI Datasets, ODBC support available for Paginated Reports in public preview, and Power BI as a superset of Azure Analysis Services.For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show…
Donald Farmer is a data artist and Jedi of sorts. His BI wisdom is unmatched and he shares this knowledge as we cover his early interest in computers (and the power that they gave the user), the history of PowerPivot from one of the former "faces of Microsoft BI", and so much more! It's so very easy to respect this venerable figure of the data worl…
We talk with some of the people that built SharePoint and shaped it into what it is today. We’ll hear from SharePoint’s captain, Jeff Teper, taking us back to the days before SharePoint had a name: Project Tahoe. Other guests include some of the earliest members of the engineering team: Lauren Antonoff who led program management in the early connec…
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Episode 184 - Power BI March 2021 Feature Summary
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This is episode 184 recorded on March 24th, 2021 where John & Jason about the Power BI March 2021 Feature Summary including the Advanced Data Selection in Azure Maps Visual, External Tools integration in Desktop is now generally available, and a new dataset details view.For show notes please visit www.bifocal.show…
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Ep74 - March Collaboration Corner with Ari - Interactivity in the Business
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In this episode, we discuss Touch Circuit and Discord. The feature topic is Interactivity: History and its use in the Education and Business spaces. @12:25 - History of interactivity in Education - Role of interactivity in Enterprise - Role of interactivity moving forward - How Avocor solutions change the game in collaborative spaces Collaboration …
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Episode 222: Azure Arc-enabled Data Services
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Azure Arc-enabled data services provide powerful capabilities to deploy and manage local, on-premises, and hybrid cloud data resources using the same centralized management and tooling you get from the Azure cloud. Since Eugene suggested our previous attempt at Azure Arc was insufficient, we invited Ben Weissman and Anthony Nocentino, authors of th…
Kasper de Jonge's areas of expertise are many-Business Intelligence, Power BI, DAX, PowerPivot, General BI, Datawarehouse, SSIS, Reporting Services, Analysis Services, SQL Server, and you can include a mean basketball crossover to that list! As Analytics Advisor and Principal Program Manager of Power BI, he knows a great deal about the problems tha…
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Episode 221: SQL Trail March 2021 Retrospective
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Virtual conferences are just not the same as the conferences we are used to, but we’re still determined to provide a good learning and networking environment for our friends. We very much miss having conferences in person and look forward to that happening again. In the meantime, we have discovered Airmeet and we had a great event: our first of the…
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Ep 72 March Data Download PT 1 with Chris Seferlis - New Announcments In The Data Space
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Chris Seferlis joins us to discuss announcements that occurred during Ignite Spring Edition in the Data Space. Azure Arc Synapse Purview For more information on Aspirant, visit www.aspirant.com Follow Chris's YouTube channel HERE! Chris on Twitter HERE! Produced by Michael Askins For more information on Aspirant, visit www.aspirant.com Aspirant on …
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78: Mindset of a Rockstar Data Analyst w/ Trevor Tapscott
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Our focus for this inspiring episode of AOF is mindset, especially if you want to be a standout data analyst! I have brought one of my first ever followers and day ones! Trevor Tapscott is a VP and Analytics Consultant at Wells Fargo and has been in the game for 20 years and counting. We connected in 2008, when he was seeking help with a visualizat…
It was an honor to sit down with two of the creators of Power Query, Sid Jayadevan and Miguel Llopis. You get to hear the history of Power Query from their perspective! These guys are so busy it took quite a bit of coordination to get them together to record this episode. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did! References In This Episode: Reese's P…
This is episode 183 recorded on March 12th, 2021 where John & Jason about John's click bait blog post where he talks about the validity of continuing to use Power Pivot in Excel. Jason takes the count point. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.showBy John White & Jason Himmelstein
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Ep 71 - Azure Front Door, Semantic Search, and Co-authoring with Justin Snyder
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Today we discuss Azure Front Door And A Little Tech News With Justin Snyder Semantic in Azure Cognitive Search [LINK] Power FX open-source [LINK] Co-authoring of protected docs [LINK] Azure Front Door [LINK] For more information on Aspirant visit www.aspirant.com Aspirant on LinkedIn and Facebook Follow Aspirant on Twitter Host Information Follow M…
As we prepare for SQL Trail on March 18th, we peek back at Microsoft Ignite and review the announcements made there—filtering out the pieces our compañeros will enjoy hearing about. Did we miss something you think we should talk about? Let us know! The show notes and video for today's episode can be found at https://sqldatapartners.com/2021/03/10/e…
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77: How to become a BI Data Journalist w/ Kimberly Herrington
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Finding your dream job in the world of data and analytics might not be as hard you think! Our guest today, Kimberly Herrington stands as a testament to this idea and she joins us on AOF to talk about how you can go about identifying and capturing your ideal position in this fascinating space. Kimberly is a data journalist at a large healthcare comp…
Hugh Millen is a former NFL quarterback and currently a television and radio sports analyst. He's also a data aficionado, whose story is another great example of a unique path that a person with a keen interest in data has taken. He's leveraged that data knowledge and used it to further his NFL career and he applies it daily in his analyst job. Ran…
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Fantasy Productivity: Adopting (Microsoft) Teams
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In this episode, Chris and Mark talk with Stephanie Donahue (President and Co-founder, PAIT Group) and Dux Raymond Sy (Chief Brand Officer, AvePoint) – both Microsoft MVPs – about building your employee adoption drafting plan from a Microsoft Teams deployment perspective. We learn about their best practices and insights on how Microsoft Teams can h…
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Episode 182 - Premium per User with Chris Finlan
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This is episode 182 recorded on March 4, 2021 where John & Jason talk to Microsoft Product Manager Chris Finlan about recent announcements around the Premium per user license, how it came about, and a few other interesting tidbits. For show notes please visit www.bifocal.showBy John White & Jason Himmelstein
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Ep 70 - MSIgnite Spring Edition - Azure, PowerApps, PowerBI, Mesh, and More
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Today we discuss the MSIgnite Spring Edition event! We breakdown some of the PowerPlatform updates and changes including POWER FX! Site of the Week: MSIgnite Event Site For more information on Aspirant visit www.aspirant.com Aspirant on LinkedIn and Facebook Follow Aspirant on Twitter Host Information Follow Michael on Twitter Follow Dev on Twitter…
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76: Data Storytelling from a Data Scientist's POV w/ Kam Lee
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Stakeholders often miss key insights that can be provided by data to drive action forward, due to the way the data is presented and communicated to them. My guest today believes that data storytelling is key to resolving this common pain point. Kam Lee, a BI Data Storytelling Mastery alumn and graduate who has used our framework to surface over $10…
Get to know the C-Suite of P3 as we welcome Kellan Danielson to the show! He's President and COO at P3 and is responsible for the development of so many of the essential inner workings that have allowed P3 to grow as successful as it has. His journey from humble introverted data and business intelligence enthusiast to humble company President is wo…
February 2021 brought some great new offerings: Microsoft Viva Topics (GA), SharePoint web part toolbox updates, Lightbox for images, Quick Links web part audience targeting, SharePoint portal launcher scheduler, Microsoft Lists: Number column updates, the Managed Metadata column, Microsoft Search in classic SharePoint sites, and more. We chat with…