Speaker

Hariharan Rajendran

Hariharan Rajendran

Microsoft MVP & Microsoft Certified Trainer

Chennai, India

Hariharan Rajendran is a Microsoft MVP in Data Platform & Microsoft Certified Trainer and Certified Power BI Professional with 13+ 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. He is an active speaker in Chennai Power BI User Group & Chennai SQL Server User Group and also one of a lead volunteers & speakers in Data Awareness Programme and achieved delivering great community service at www.dataap.org.

Area of Expertise

  • Information & Communications Technology
  • Media & Information
  • Transports & Logistics

Topics

  • Microsoft Power BI
  • Microsoft Power Automate
  • Power BI Report Server

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.

Southampton Data Platform and Cloud user group - in-person meetup User group Sessionize Event

January 2023 Southampton, United Kingdom

Power BI Summit Sessionize Event

April 2021

Hariharan Rajendran

Microsoft MVP & Microsoft Certified Trainer

Chennai, India