Recently, Microsoft released a new activity type to trigger Power BI Semantic Model refreshes. A great step forward to have a native pipeline activity and no longer need to setup complex steps with APIs and authentication manually. Or is there still a case? In this blog I will elaborate on what this new Pipeline activity …
Continue reading Orchestrate Power BI Semantic model refreshes through Fabric Pipelines
This morning, I was looking for a specific tenant setting in the Fabric admin portal. While scrolling through a few of the tenant settings, I came across a specific one, which I like to elaborate on a bit more in detail, given I recently also had some questions around this topic from customers. What happens …
Lately it's copilot before and after in all Microsoft communications and announcements. Also, during the Fabric Community Conference in Las Vegas where I was last week, it was hard to keep count of the number of times copilot was mentioned. Next to Microsoft communications, everyday conversations with customers and colleagues include copilots everywhere too. Which …
Continue reading Copilot or autopilot? Unpopular opinions on copilot
You might have seen some buzz around already, although the official blog post is not out yet, the February release of Power BI desktop is already available to download. After a month waiting (traditionally, there is no January update) it has some great new features in it! Not only Tabular Model Definition Language is there …
Last week, I was attending and speaking at the first ever Fabric February, a great in-person conference dedicated to Microsoft Fabric taking place in Oslo - Norway. (I recommend attending future editions of this event!) During the conference, someone walked up to me and asked if I knew a way to programmatically refresh Power BI …
Continue reading Can you refresh a Power BI Datamart Programmatically?
Recently, I was on a call with a good friend and former colleague, just to exchange some thoughts, knowledge and ideas. We shared some things we're working on and what we think of the evolvement of technology in the Era of AI - with the launch of Microsoft Fabric versus the technology we were used …
Continue reading Anchored vs. Active – Categorizing Technology
Today, I run into an issue by adding a service principal to a workspace. To my experience so far, this should be straight forward and a matter of adding with the right permissions in the workspace settings. However, for some reason I couldn't get it to work. In this blog I will elaborate on what …
Continue reading Tenant settings that block from adding a service principal to a workspace
Recently, I had two enterprise customers with whom I was in conversation about Microsoft Fabric and how it could complement their existing data landscape. Both of these customers have a data platform running already, which have lots of best practices and customizations in it, not necessarily portable to Fabric. Also, both came from a standpoint …
In the many conversations I had over the past years, it is a returning topic to talk about complexity of bringing your CRM and ERP data together to create a 360-degree customer view. While doing business, we all want to understand our customers better, by knowing what drives them, which marketing campaign worked for them, …
Continue reading The future of customer understanding through Microsoft Fabric
Over the past months, I've been engaging with many clients with regards to Microsoft Fabric. Many clients had a somewhat hesitant approach given Fabric was still in preview and they did not want to bring their (entire) data estate to Fabric. Since last week, Microsoft launched Fabric as General Available during the annual conference Microsoft …
Continue reading Debunking Myths and Embracing Innovation with Microsoft Fabric
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