12:00 – 12:45 | David Benaim | Power BI’s new integrations with Excel

Power BI data can now be pushed through to Excel, to every Excel spreadsheet in your organisation. Imagine having every spreadsheet in your org which can pull out your inventory records. Location, description, qty on hand etc. etc. The data is updated in Excel as it does with Power BI. David will talk through the licencing and set up process (which means changing settings in various places in Power BI Desktop, Service, admin portal & Excel). We will also explore other integrations between the two products such as creating Pivot Tables from Power BI data, or exploring certain things that Excel does better than Power BI.

12:45 – 13:30 | Dave Ruijter | Let’s go Premium! The essentials to kickstart your experience

Going with Premium capacity in Power BI provides a lot of value for your organization: more dependable performance, larger data volumes, widespread distribution of content to consumers, and more!
In this deep-dive session you will learn:

• What Power BI Premium capacity exactly is
• How it compares to the regular/shared capacity
• How it compares to Azure Analysis Services
• How you can govern and manage the capacity
• How you can monitor the capacity

About David Benaim

David began his career as a chartered accounting training contract at Deloitte London and now runs a data analytics & training firm Xlconsulting in Cambodia which has trained over 2000 people and consulted over 120 clients in seven years. David co-chairs the data residents Cambodia group, coaches speakers for Nerd Night, is also and a written & video blog author for UK’s chartered accounting institute. He has a YouTube channel with over 100 tech tutorial videos (Power BI, Power Query, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams etc.) and in Feb 2020, he was granted the Microsoft MVP award.

About Dave Ruijter

Dave is a Cloud Solution Architect Data & AI at Macaw and a Microsoft MVP, public speaker and consultant, helping organizations realize the full potential of the Azure Cloud & Power Platform. He brings a decade’s worth of experience to the table and is a passionate Power BI evangelist, eager to share his knowledge and experiences from the field.