Recently, I wrote a blog about the new branch-out feature in Git connected Fabric and Power BI workspaces. In this blog, I will continue the topic of Git integration by discussing various setups you could consider in your Git integration, deployment and release strategies as part of your continuous integration and continuous delivery setup. Will …
Continue reading Fabric CI/CD with Git deployment and release strategies
Yesterday, Microsoft released a new option called "branch-out" that allows you to easily setup a new branch from an existing Fabric workspace. Obviously, this was already possible but involved a lot of manual work. With this new option, you can create your own feature branch to work in isolation before you commit your work to …
P-SKUs, A-SKUs, EM-SKUs and now we also have F-SKUs... all these different capacities that are out there today each have their own specifics. Lately, I've been in a lot of conversations around Fabric capacities. There seems to be some unclarity around what you pay for in the end and how it compares to Power BI …
Continue reading Power BI and Fabric capacities: Understand the difference and cost structure
Recently, I architected a solution for a client for their Microsoft Fabric data platform. The client works with Dynamics Finance & Operations as one of their main ERP system. Fabric offers easy ways to bring data from various standard Microsoft services into the platform, however it is not always as easy as it looks like. …
Continue reading Gotcha’s of bringing Dataverse data into Microsoft Fabric
I've heard the question pretty often from customers: "You told me to use incremental refresh, but how can I regularly run a full load or refresh onder partitions?" Well, there are perfect ways to do this using Tabular Editor or SQL Server Management Studio. But this often includes manual work to trigger the processing. Today, …
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 …
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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