Laura Graham-Brown
MVP, Power Platform Consultant and Agony Aunt
Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom
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Data Platform and Business Applications Microsoft MVP
Business solutions should solve business problems and the business should own the problem and the solution. I've spent my whole career empowering businesses to do that.
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Enhancing Microsoft Fabric with Power Automate
Enhancing Microsoft Fabric with Power Automate
Microsoft Fabric can ingest, transform, store and then let the business analyse the data to make those important data driven decisions. The toolset includes ways to orchestrate and schedule the data journey from raw to a conformed layer and onto a reporting layer. So what does Power Automate bring to the table to enhance this?
Lets start with demonstrating how Power Automate Desktop can interact with that old legacy system to fetch the data ready for Microsoft Fabric to ingest. Then onto how to use AI Builder to extract data from documents and into Microsoft Fabric. Next we will move onto showing how Power Automate can enhance orchestration of the data journey from raw to conformed. Finally we will look how Data Activator and Power Automate work together to enhance the reflex to act in custom ways. Interweaving as we go the governance and security issues that we should be aware of.
Fun filled demo-rich session from experts in the Microsoft Fabric and Power Platform stack. Every demo will have blogs and YouTube videos supporting them.
Being Neurodiverse is not as rare as we think it is
It is estimated 15 to 20% of the population are neurodivergent. Quite a few neurodivergent people like problem solving, work well with numbers and have a flair with computers so in the IT world that percentage is going to be higher. So the chances are your team, your workplace even your family will include a few neurodivergent people. And every possibility they haven’t told anyone.
How do we as a community, a company or a family create an inclusive team to include them? How does a heavily neurodivergent team include a neurotypical personality into the team?
How does being neurodivergent affect our mental health? How do we explain “my brain doesn’t work like that” without sounding mad or just giving excuses? How do we create a balance between it being seen by some as a disability and others as a superpower? We will share our experiences, the current theories and look forward to hearing yours.
Power BI and Power Apps Solutions – Better Together
Power Platform development has a well established development lifecycle using solutions to deploy an application from development, onto testing and finally into production. As Power BI developers working with Power Platform developers we are constantly being asked how Power BI fits in this model.
Finally Microsoft have released the public preview of integrating Power BI reports into solutions. This exciting development means that Power BI content can be seamlessly managed as part of your Application Lifecycle Management process across environments and tenants This session will walk through the stages, will cover the current limitations, and will include live demos.
Power Automate and Power BI doing what they do best
The Power Platform is an impressive toolset that can enable organisations to transform business processes in many different ways. They become even more transformational when they work together taking full advantage of what each tool does best.
In this session we will look at how Power Automate can give Power BI write back options. Moving onto how Power BI can deliver transformed data to Power Automate. Continuing to look at how Power Automate can help deliver reporting highlights in new ways.
Dataverse and Power BI
Power BI is part of the Power Platform family. Microsoft have the slide with all the members of the family in a row above data sources and Dataverse is there as the recommended data source for the Power Platform projects.
So what does connecting to Dataverse from Power BI look like? This session will look at the good, the and the ugly parts of connecting to Dataverse. As much as we all embrace the low-code revolution it can create some interesting data models.
I promise a demo rich session.
Introduction to Paginated Reports
Paginated reports allow for that pixel perfect report to be built that can span multiple pages, delivered via email or combined with Power Automate to be saved in a team. It is not a replacement for Power BI but a complimenting service when you need that snap shot report. Now that Premium features are more available through Premium per User licences, paginated reports are a good solution for more companies.
In this session we will start with the basics, assuming no prior knowledge and cover the following topics.
Connecting to data and creating datasets.
Creating a tabular report and adding parameters
Publishing and Subscribing to a report
Creating a template
Connecting to a Power BI dataset.
Visuals and Conditional Formatting
Recommended 60+ minutes for this session.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLclDw3xU_tI5bypr74FnLuLGTyuTfKpV1 for a taster of the session
Nordic Summit 2024 Sessionize Event
European Microsoft Fabric Community Conference Sessionize Event
SQLBits 2024 - General Sessions Sessionize Event
Nordic Summit 2023 Sessionize Event
SQLBits 2023 - General Sessions Sessionize Event
South Coast Summit 2022 Sessionize Event
Data Relay 2022 Sessionize Event
Scottish Summit 2022 Sessionize Event
Power BI Summit 2022 Sessionize Event
Power Platform World Tour London
Session - Power Query and Flow
In September 2018 Microsoft introduced the Power Query Online integration for Microsoft Flow. This opens up the possibility of transforming and shaping data within Flow without having to understand OData or SQL.
This session will demonstrate different ways of combining data, transforming data, and then exposing the data as a csv, html table or looping through the records to automate a process based on your data within SQL server.
Finally we will look at the costs, limitations and considerations when using this new feature and the licenses that you require to use these techniques.
Collab365 Flow Virtual Summit
Online summit dedicated to Microsoft Flow
Session - Task Management using Flow
This session covers accessing tasks in lots of different platforms from Planner, to Wunderlist to Project Online.
It covers the challenges of different formats, triggers and copying complete lists from one platform to another to help you manage lists.
PowerApps Virtual Conference
In this session, we will build a Hangman game that selects a word and lets the user pick letters and for every wrong answer draws another part of the hangman. Many "learn to code" courses include programming a game to explore different techniques in a fun way. The methods included here include using collections to track activity, using galleries to display a keyboard and correctly selected letters, using SVG to draw the hangman and using a timer to make a loop to set it all up.
SharePoint Saturday Leicester
Power BI Introduction - So just how hot was this summer?
Level: 100
Track: End-User, Business
Power BI is a great tool from Microsoft to collect, transform and visualise your data in dynamic reports. It can handle a wide variety of data formats. Weather stations across Europe collect lots of data every day of every year.
This session is designed for anyone with little or no experience in Power BI. If you would like to learn about transforming data using queries, relationships, pretty visualisations, slicers and some natural language questions then this session is for you. Come and find out just how hot this summer has been compared to previous years.
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