

Hariharan Rajendran
Microsoft MVP & Microsoft Certified Trainer
Chennai, India
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Hariharan Rajendran is a Microsoft MVP in Data Platform & Microsoft Certified Trainer and Certified Power BI Professional with 15+ years of experience in Database and Business intelligence on both on-premise and cloud platform. He is fully loaded with end-to-end hands-on experience in both Microsoft SQL Server and SAP HANA & Business Objects stack. He is a continuous blogger (www.dataap.org/blog) and provide virtual training (on ad-hoc basis) on Microsoft Azure, Database Administration, PowerBI and database development to worldwide clients/audience.
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Tips and Tricks of Power BI Paginated Reports *
The demand for Power BI Paginated reports is keep increasing from the announcement of Premium Per User License and most of you interested to learn. This session is for all report developers who started working with Power BI Paginated Reports.
In this session I will be explaining how to make modern paginated reports with different built-in features. If i say modernize, it does not mean that I am covering only the look and feel of the reports. I will be explaining what kind of features are available and how you can effectively use them and how the tool can compete with other BI tools. Basically, I will be showing the hidden gems of Paginated Reports. In simple, this session will cover development, automation, performance and etc with Paginated Reports.
Mastering DAX Query View: Your New Power BI Companion
Introducing DAX Query View—a groundbreaking feature in Power BI that every developer should be familiar with. More than just a new addition, DAX Query View has the potential to transform how you work with Power BI.
In this session, you'll learn how to harness the power of DAX Query View in both Power BI Desktop and Power BI Service. We'll dive deep into key topics, including:
Leveraging Vertipaq Analyzer information within DAX Query View
Identifying model standards and best practices
Performing DAX query debugging
Exploring the synergy between Copilot and DAX Query View
Many tasks that typically require DAX Studio can now be accomplished directly within DAX Query View. By the end of this session, you'll be ready to integrate DAX Query View into your development lifecycle.
Alternates to Power BI Dashboards with MS Fabric Items
Are you a Power BI professional involved in creating and managing dashboards in your projects and workspaces? This session is designed specifically for you. While Power BI dashboards offer unique capabilities within Power BI and Microsoft Fabric, their adoption across organizations remains limited.
In this session, we will explore how you can leverage Microsoft Fabric items to address the use cases traditionally handled by Power BI dashboards, but in a more effective and advanced manner.
We'll dive into practical scenarios, including:
--Setting up data alerts within Power BI Dashboards
--Utilizing real-time data with streaming datasets
--Creating a consolidated view of KPIs from various reports and etc.
This session is highly demo-oriented, ensuring you gain hands-on experience and insights that you can immediately apply to your projects. Discover how to enhance your Power BI dashboard use cases with the power of Microsoft Fabric.
Microsoft Fabric Impact in Power BI Projects and Solutions
This session covers brief information about new innovations in Microsoft Fabric and how that will impact the regular Power BI projects and solutions. This is for all the Power BI professional who are working for different customers and projects. This session will contain more demos.
This session will deep dive into each of the new innovations in Microsoft Fabric from a Power BI perspective and showcase how that will change the way that we currently working in typical Power Bi projects. We probably depending on some of the custom solutions or workarounds or 3rd party tools for handling some of the requirements in Power BI which was not natively supported earlier but those can be reduced or avoided as part of Microsoft Fabric integration in Power BI platform.
It helps you to redesign your whole BI solution in more effective and efficient way. You will understand all of them in this session.
Easy Ways to Understand the Existing Power BI Projects
This session is for Power BI Developers. Developers always feel comfortable when they build a dataset / model from scratch in the Power BI world. There could be various reasons but one of the main reasons would be they will have a very good understanding of models like tables, relationships, calculations etc. If they want to enhance the model once built, they can easily do that since they have built the model so they know the in and out of the model.
What if the developer is assigned a task where he/she should enhance the existing model which was developed by someone else? Most of the time initially it will be tough for the developer to understand the existing setup, model etc then they start enhancing the model. In this session, I will explain what are the easy steps available for developers to understand the model and start to own and enhance it.
Power BI Reports Server - On-Prem BI Solution
The trend of using Power BI is keep increasing day by day as Power BI can provide cloud and on-prem solutions to organization.
This session is more focused on Power BI On-Prem which is nothing but Power BI Report Server. It helps you to use report server effectively to deliver business solutions.
This session also covers configuring the report server and what are the different types of reports that can be hosted. Also, how you can effectively use a common dataset across Power BI Desktop and Paginated Reports in report server. Some of the tips and tricks to handle the Report server REST APIs to automate your day-to-day tasks. It covers a quick approach on how you can use Power BI datasets (cloud) in on-prem reports.
Also highlights the latest features from Power BI report server which helps you to build advanced reports as almost same as Power BI cloud-based reports.
Power BI – Tips & Tricks to Impress your Business Users
Power BI adoption to organization is keep growing on daily basis. The main success for the adoption is Power BI delivers solution for both self-service and enterprise business customers. The key consumers are business users and data analysts. It is very important to impress them by providing proper insights from data and controls to provide whatever they need. This session targets developers or content creators who using Power BI to build effective Power BI reports and dashboards. It also gives you an idea how you can allow users to interact with the data and get insights with just few clicks. This session also covers how you can build whole self-service models for users to build their reports with minimal efforts. As usual, this session covers all the tips and tricks for Power BI developers.
Modernize Power BI Paginated Reports
As we all know Power BI paginated reports are from SQL Server Reporting Services which is kind of legacy BI tool, but customers are looking this tool for their pixel perfect reporting needs. In this session I will be explaining how to make modern paginated reports with different built-in features. How users can get the reports as an export to email or network drive or embedding in the email. Also, few automation tips and tricks with Power BI REST APIs. This will be an interesting session as I will cover how I provided various solutions to the customers with hybrid approaches. In simple, this session will cover development, automation, performance and etc with Paginated Reports.
SAP BO to Power BI Migration – Approach & Best Practices
This session is for Power BI Developers and SAP BO developers and BI architects.
In recent times, Power BI adoption keep increasing across organizations. Most of the organization are already started migrating their BI workloads into Power BI from their legacy BI platforms. I have involved multiple migration projects and most of them are SAP BO to Power BI. This session covers how you should approach the SAP BO migration to Power BI and how you can satisfy the business users by retaining the same functionality and experience in Power BI. Also, I will talk about how you can enhance your solution than legacy platform and some of the workarounds that you need in Power BI to match the SAP BO features. It covers all sort of options to help you to build the migration strategy to move your SAP BO reports to Power BI smoothly.
Transforming Power BI Development with DAX Query View and TMDL View
Discover the future of Power BI development with DAX Query View and TMDL View, two groundbreaking features that promise to revolutionize how developers build, debug, and enhance Power BI solutions.
The DAX Query View empowers developers with deeper insights into DAX query execution, enabling debugging and leveraging Vertipaq Analyzer to identify model standards and best practices. Coupled with Copilot integration, this feature enhances productivity by offering intelligent assistance throughout the development process.
On the other hand, the TMDL View introduces a script-based approach to model development, accelerating workflows and providing unmatched efficiency for Pro developers. By simplifying the process of building and updating models, TMDL View opens new possibilities for streamlined model development and management.
In this session, you’ll explore:
Mastering DAX Query View for debugging and performance tuning.
Leveraging Vertipaq Analyzer insights to identify best practices.
Exploring the synergy between Copilot and DAX Query View to enhance development.
Harnessing TMDL View for rapid model development and updates.
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Hariharan Rajendran
Microsoft MVP & Microsoft Certified Trainer
Chennai, India
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