“What should I do now?”
That’s the most common question we’ve been hearing from Power BI professionals since Microsoft Fabric was introduced as an “end-to-end analytics platform” by Microsoft in November 2023.
And, although most of the “traditional” Power BI workloads stay the same, there are some new features and functionalities that are exclusively available when using Power BI in synergy with Fabric. You can now leverage your Power Query skills for self-service data preparation with Dataflows Gen2. You may perform complex data transformations using notebooks. Need to deal with the real-time analytics requirements? No problem, as the Real-Time Intelligence provides a seamless experience for handling streaming data processing. Oh, there is also a completely new storage mode for Power BI semantic models – Direct Lake, which combines best of both Import and DirectQuery worlds.
This workshop serves as a definitive guide to understanding how (and to what extent) Microsoft Fabric revolutionized the way we are working with Power BI. We will start by introducing the key pillars of Microsoft Fabric, and examining the core components of the platform. Next, you’ll understand how to leverage various Fabric features and capabilities to enhance your current Power BI solutions, and build future-proof Power BI models from ground.
Once we are done, you’ll get a better understanding of the various Fabric components that may affect the architectural decisions for building scalable analytics solutions, and how these decisions may level up your Power BI projects.
We expect you to have a fundamental Power BI knowledge (so you won’t scratch your head when you hear terms such as: Power Query, Model View, semantic model, Star schema, etc.). Additionally, knowing basic principles of data modeling won’t hurt as well, although we cover a lot of these from scratch during the workshop.
Oh, and don’t forget your laptops! Since we firmly believe in the “learning by doing mantra”, you’ll be working on numerous hands-on labs during the workshop, so once we are done, you’ll bring home a fully functional, end-to-end solution using Microsoft Fabric and Power BI.
Prerequisites:
• Laptop with Internet connection
• Fabric license (any license is fine, including Trial)
• Power BI Desktop installed