The Power BI Evolution with Greg Deckler - AtScale Data Driven Podcast

In this episode, Dave Marini chats with Greg Deckler, VP at a global technology consulting firm and a seven-time Microsoft MVP. They discuss Microsoft's strategy with Power BI and its integration with Microsoft Fabric, with Deckler critiquing the rushed release and its early limitations. Both express skepticism about business users adopting more complex tools, citing ongoing challenges like measuring totals.

The conversation shifts to the impact of generative AI on business intelligence tools like Power BI, urging caution about data security and governance. They also highlight the underutilization of natural language queries in Power BI despite frequent demos. Deckler speculates the future of Power BI's support for various data platforms and Microsoft's strategy to integrate these with Fabric.

To learn more, read Deckler’s 3 part blog series, “Is Fabric and Direct Lake a Game Changer For Microsoft?”
https://www.atscale.com/blog/is-fabri...
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Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
1:18 - How Greg's career started
2:47 - Greg's opinions on Power BI
5:01 - Greg's writing career
6:51 - What does Greg like about Power BI?
8:32 - Greg's thoughts on Microsoft Fabric
12:39 - What does Power BI support mean for other data platforms?
17:49 - How to incorporate Microsoft Fabric into your data strategy
21:48 - How does Gen AI affect business intelligence going forward?
24:52 - How much time should a company spend on Generative AI?
26:17 - Are people seeing results from Natural Language Query?
28:36 - General advice for people in analytics and data
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More About Greg:
Greg Deckler is a Vice President and has been a professional technology consultant for over 27 years. Seven-time Microsoft MVP for Data Platform and an active Power BI Community site member with over 5,000 solutions authored and almost 200 Quick Measure Gallery submissions. He has written four books on Power BI and is working on a fifth. He founded the Columbus Azure ML and Power BI User Group (CAMLPUG) and has presented at many conferences and events, including Dog Food, SharePoint Saturday, CloudDevelop, and M3.

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AtScale is the leading provider of intelligent data virtualization for big data analytical workloads, empowering citizen data scientists to accelerate and scale their business’ data analytics and science capabilities and ultimately build insight-driven enterprises.

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