George Woods
Customer Engineer - Azure Data & AI - Global Technical Team at Microsoft
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
As a Customer Engineer at Microsoft, I train and assist Customers with their Data journey. I specialize in cloud technologies such as Azure Synapse, Power BI, Azure Data Factory and Azure SQL DB, along with the on-premises technologies SQL Server, Analysis Services and Reporting Services. I have trained 1000’s of professionals from a wide variety of industries such as Education, Government, Retail, Healthcare and Commercial in Microsoft Data technologies. Most of my career has been about Data, as an Oracle DBA, SQL Server DBA, Business Intelligence Architect/Developer, and many years ago a SAP Basis Admin.
Area of Expertise
Topics
Power BI tools and Licensing overview
Overview of the different Power BI options such as Power BI Desktop, Power BI Report Builder, Workspaces, Apps, Shared Capacity, Premium and Premium per User
Power BI Consuming and Collaboration
Overview of Power BI Desktop - Saving, Source Control and Connections and Consuming through Service, Mobile, Embedded and Teams
Extra Features in Power Desktop and Power BI Service
Overview of Desktop Features - bookmarks, tooltips, Q and A, Custom Visualizations, Slicer, Drill Through
Overview of Power BI Service Features - Dashboards, Copying Reports
Power BI Connection types - Import, DQ, Live Connection
Benefits and usage of the different Power BI Connection types
Reporting Best Practices
Best practices for report design, whether you are using Power BI or another reporting tool.
SQL Saturday Pittsburgh
Session on Power BI Tools and Checklists