Are we at the tipping point?

Are you STILL one of the people who have not yet realized that the world of BI is about to get turned upside down with GenAI and LLMs? Well, you can keep basking in your ignorance, but for the rest of us, we need to figure out how to stay ahead of where this is going and how to not be left behind. With my latest video/tutorial, we're stepping into the future with LangChain LLM Agents, and how they're revolutionizing the way we interact with Power BI semantic models within Microsoft Fabric. Forget the traditional ways of data processing and get ready for a mind-blowing journey into AI-driven analytics. You can query your Power BI datasets/semantic models and potentially replace lines of code with just a few simple prompts. hashtag#azure hashtag#OpenAI hashtag#LangChain hashtag#PowerBI hashtag#MicrosoftFabric hashtag#AI hashtag#BusinessIntelligence hashtag#Innovation hashtag#BI hashtag#datascience hashtag#obvience hashtag#getsmartertogether

How to implement #RAG Architecture with Azure #OpenAI in Microsoft #Fabric

Ready to take your Business Intelligence and Data Engineering skills to the next level with Azure OpenAI and Microsoft Fabric? Learn how to implement hashtag#RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) Architecture with these powerful tools in my latest video. By securely bringing your corporate data into the fold, you can unlock the full potential of GenAI. Check out the video now to get started. hashtag#Azure hashtag#OpenAI hashtag#LLM hashtag#microsoftfabric hashtag#dataengineering hashtag#datascience hashtag#AI hashtag#genai hashtag#powerbi hashtag#getsmartertogether hashtag#obvience

Adding Weather Forecast in Power BI using Azure Map

Azure Maps is a Microsoft technology that has a lot of cool features. Somewhat unexpectedly I discovered that along with purely mapping stuff it also provides functionality to acquire weather forecast data using REST API as outlined here. The detailed process is detailed in the video below, but I will highlight the key steps in … Continue reading Adding Weather Forecast in Power BI using Azure Map

How to Deploy Azure Data Factory (ADF) from Dev to QA using Devops

Just wanted to do a quick video to cover the process of deploying ADF artifacts from Development environment to higher environments like QA, etc. these are the basic steps to get it done (please watch the video for detailed instructions) https://youtu.be/7fsIwWheyDk Create a new project in Devops if there is no project set up alreadyMake … Continue reading How to Deploy Azure Data Factory (ADF) from Dev to QA using Devops

How to make Azure Databricks work with Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 and Power BI

  This post is a beginning to a series of articles about building analytical capabilities in Azure using data lake, Databricks and Power BI. On the surface, those technologies seem like they were specifically designed to complement each other as they provide a set of foundational capabilities necessary to develop scalable and cost-effective business intelligence … Continue reading How to make Azure Databricks work with Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 and Power BI

Optimizing Azure Analysis Services Partitions for Azure Data Warehouse External Tables

Recently, I had a chance to work with Azure Analysis Services (AS) sourcing data from Azure Data Warehouse (DW) external tables. Optimizing the processing of the Azure Analysis Services partitions to use with the Azure DW external tables is a bit different from working with the regular (physical) data tables, and I will discuss the … Continue reading Optimizing Azure Analysis Services Partitions for Azure Data Warehouse External Tables

Quirks of Visual Studio Query Editor working with Analysis Services

Visual Studio 2017 and the SQL Server Data Tool (SSDT), a tool that comes with Visual Studio, finally integrates the now familiar Query Editor (Power Query) capability to work with the Analysis Services Tabular Model. Query Editor is a data ingestion and transformation tool used by Excel Power Pivot as well as Power BI. Now, … Continue reading Quirks of Visual Studio Query Editor working with Analysis Services