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What is the next evolution of Power BI? Will Power BI Desktop ever become a prompt-first UI? And how do you actually decide whether you need a semantic model, an ontology, or both? I sat down with Mohammad Ali — Director of Product Management for Power BI at Microsoft, overseeing the PMs across the entire Read more about The Next Evolution of Power BI — A Conversation with Mohammad Ali | Fabric…
You can build an application whose frontend is TypeScript and ReactJS, and whose backend is a Power BI semantic model — meaning you get a fully interactive, visualized report inside your application without it being a Power BI report at all. Project Rayfin makes this possible. And it is going to change the way we Read more about Rayfin Data App — The Future of Power BI Reporting […] The post…
Is ETL as we know it coming to an end? What is the real migration path from ADF, Synapse, or SSIS to Microsoft Fabric? And what does AI mean for the future of the ETL developer’s career? I sat down with Wee Hyong Tok — Partner Director of Product Management for Data Integration at Microsoft, Read more about Data Integration, Migration & the Future of ETL in Microsoft Fabric — A Conversation with…
Everyone is talking about MCP Servers. But most people still cannot clearly explain what one actually is, why it matters for Fabric, or how it differs from the APIs and skills they already use. In this episode of Fabric Insider, I sat down with Hasan Abo-Shally — Product Manager for Fabric MCP Servers and CLI Read more about Fabric MCP Servers, CLI & AI Agents — A Conversation with Hasan…
Imagine an application built entirely inside the Microsoft Fabric environment. Not an application that connects to Fabric. Not an application that reads from a Fabric data source. An application where the database is a Fabric SQL database, the semantic model is a Power BI semantic model, and the frontend is hosted and managed inside Fabric Read more about What Is Fabric App or Rayfin and Why You…
This episode of Fabric Insider is a little different from the others. We are not talking about a product feature or a technical update. We are talking about a program that has shaped the Microsoft data community for over two decades — and one that a lot of people misunderstand. The Microsoft MVP program is Read more about Everything About the Microsoft MVP Program — A Conversation with Rie Merritt…
What if you could create a complete Dataflow Gen 2 in Microsoft Fabric — with data connections, merge transformations, and a fully built date table — without writing a single line of M code? Not as a theoretical future capability. Right now. Today. In this video, I show you exactly how to do that using Read more about No Code Dataflow Gen 2 in Microsoft Fabric Using GitHub Copilot and Fabric…
We had Fabric. Then Real-Time Intelligence. Now Fabric IQ. What comes next? That is the question I most wanted answered when I sat down with Yitzhak Kesselman — Corporate Vice President for Real-Time Intelligence at Microsoft Fabric. Yitzhak leads not only Fabric RTI and Fabric IQ but also the Microsoft observability products within Azure. This Read more about Fabric Real-Time Intelligence &…
Documentation is one of those things that every data team knows they should do — and almost nobody does well. You build a Power BI semantic model. You create reports. You set up workspaces, schedules, and refresh jobs. You document none of it because there is no time, no simple way to do it, and Read more about No Code, No Tools: Documentation for Power BI and Fabric Using Fabric Skills and GitHub…
Christian Wade has been in the enterprise BI space longer than most. He was working with semantic models — Analysis Services, VertiPaq — long before Power BI even existed. Today he is Principal Product Manager Architect for Power BI Semantic Models at Microsoft, responsible for the intersection of product strategy, technical architecture, and customer relationships Read more about What’s Hot and…
