Alessandro Gherardi
Business Intelligence Freelance Consultant - PowerBI, SQL & Fabric
Bologna, Italy
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6+ years of experience working in Business Intelligence in different contexts: startup/scaleup, Big 4 consultancy firm, remote contractor for US-based tech company and as Community Leader for the Italian Power BI User Group. Currently working as a freelance consultant.
I have experience on ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes, Data Warehousing, Dimensional Modeling and Data Visualization. My main tech stacks are Power BI and SQL, and include:
Power BI: Building optimized semantic models, efficient DAX, and Power Query (M) ETL solutions. Proficient in reporting, with knowledge in the broader Power BI ecosystem, including Paginated Reports, Dataflows, Tabular Modeling in SSAS, administration, and CI/CD for Power BI.
SQL: Experienced in creating queries and stored procedures, working with SSIS (SQL Server Integration Services), SSRS (SQL Server Reporting Services), and SSAS (SQL Server Analysis Services).
I am among the co-leaders of the Power BI User Group Italy, the biggest Italian community dedicated to BI and Data, with a focus on Power BI. For the community I manage social channels, organize events and present technical sessions. If you wish to join any of the social channels of the community, here's a useful LinkTree: https://linktr.ee/powerbiusergroupitaly
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DevOps for Power BI: ensuring best practices compliance with Tabular Editor and PBI Inspector
In this session, I will demonstrate why and how to leverage Tabular Editor's Best Practice Analyzer and PBI Inspector within an Azure DevOps CI/CD pipeline to automate and scale the enforcement of best practices compliance in your organization when developing tabular models and Power BI reports.
The session will consist of two parts:
-The What and the Why: An overview of the tools, the concept of CI/CD, and the reason why integrating these practices is important in the scope of a PowerBI/SSAS project
-Demo: A demonstration showcasing a simple example of how to implement these tools in a CI/CD pipeline using Azure DevOps
Preferred session duration: 60 minutes
Required knowledge: Power BI knowledge, some basic DevOps knowledge is nice to have
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