Steve Wake
BI Architect/Developer, Speaker, Microsoft Certified Professional, Board member
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Steve Wake is a Microsoft Certified Professional who is currently the Principal BI Developer at Brown and Caldwell and has experience in consulting, advertising, media, manufacturing, retail, charities, telecommunications and financial services organizations using the full on-premises Microsoft BI stack. Recent experience with the Azure services: Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Analysis Services, Azure Logic Apps, Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks, Snowflake and Power BI. Steve is also very involved in the SQL community, speaking at events around the world.
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Power BI Premium: Is it for your Company (and Worth it)?
Power BI Premium is the top level of Power BI that your company can pay to get dedicated capacity for your Power BI reports and models. But at a starting price of $5000/month is it something your company needs and is it worth that price? In this session we will go over all of the current features offered with Power BI Premium and the features that we know are coming in the future so that you can help make that decision for your company. With multiple demos in this session you can see these features for yourself to help determine the worth. Come to this session if your company has been thinking about Power BI Premium but you have been unable to determine if it is right for your company or not. At the end of this session you will be armed with all of the knowledge you will need to make the right decision.
Lessons Learned from a Successful Enterprise Power BI Deployment
Power BI is an amazing tool for end-user analytics and reporting, but if you don't architect for it correctly it may not work right as an enterprise reporting solution. Come to this session to get actual implementation details from a real deployment that was completed for a mid-sized company (1,800+ employees) and is being used daily by more than half of the employees after only a few months of being live in production. Using demos and actual documentation you will see what you need to think of for a project like this. We will be covering architecture, implementation, governance, change control, and support to get a Power BI enterprise deployment working successfully from someone that has done it! Azure Analysis Services, Azure Synapse, Azure Databricks, Power BI Pro, and Power BI Premium will be discussed and how each is being used in this solution as well.
Azure Synapse Analytics: Is it the One-Stop Shop for BI/Analytics in Azure?
Azure Synapse Analytics started as the next evolution of Azure Data Warehouse (previously Azure Analytics Platform System and Parallel Data Warehouse) with Apache Spark and Azure Data Factory in one "package". Now, with new capabilities like SQL Serverless, Power Query Online, Azure Synapse Link, Data Lakes, Delta Lake, Power BI and more there is a need for a single front-end to build end-to-end BI/Analytic solutions. Microsoft saw this need and was able to make Azure Synapse Analytics the umbrella product to cover all these tools in a single web-based UI called Azure Synapse Studio. Previously to do data integration (ETL/ELT), data exploration, data warehousing and reporting it required switching between multiple tools/web UIs to complete each of these steps, now it can all be done in one web UI! In this session we will go through all of these new capabilities with lots of demos so that you can see if this is right for your company to build the future of BI/Analytic solutions in Azure!
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