Ant Couzens
Owner and Principal Consultant, Halo Data Limited
Bristol, United Kingdom
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Anthony has been a technology leader for over 10 years at the sharp end of business, starting out in digital productivity which quickly developed to wrap around data and analytics. With his primary focus being on business optimisation to make for efficient and well run organisations, learning how to interpret systems data was a basic inevitability. After five years behind the wheel of PowerBI in earnest, Anthony went freelance to enable him to bring his services to organisations who couldn't get the meaning out of their own data, and the wider M365 ecosystem. Outside his work Ant is the proud husband and father of two pre-teen boys and a lover of adventures of any kind whether that's mountain biking, wildcamping, snowsport or even just the big thrills at waterparks and theme parks with the family. From a young age he has always been curious about how things work and loves nothing more than building a shed or stripping a bike. So naturally problem solving with data was always going to be an attraction!
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Practical Composite Models
Gen2 composite models have existed for several years, but are you familiar with the many benefits of them or the knack required to easily move between models as your PowerBI estate develops? Working with his clients, Ant has been using a mixture of model methods which have inevitably pivoted and changed with the businesses own changing needs. This session will demonstrate the power and versatility of composite models and how to transition quickly between a standard import configuration to an inheritance of the same semantic model but over DirectQuery via AS (Analysis Services). Along the way Ant will demonstrate various tooling and techniques he finds highly increases his velocity in development, allowing him to do more in less time. We will touch on aspects around DAX, performance tuning, object migration and external tools including the ALM toolkit and Tabular Editor which have become staples of his working practice.
Estimate 60-90 Mins, adjusted to fit
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