SQLBits 2018
Power BI deployment strategy for publishing and maintenance
It takes minutes to create and share Power BI reports and users who has relevant Power BI access can do many things in the PBI service. In this session, Prathy will show how having a deployment strategy helps maintaining Power BI service.
Power BI: Minutes to create and seconds to impress.
Yes, it takes minutes to create and share Power BI reports. Which means every user who has relevant Power BI access can create work spaces, apps, reports, dashboards and schedules. With no deployment strategy, maintaining Power BI service could become a terrible job.
In this session, I will cover how having a having deployment strategy can make a terrible maintenance job seamless.
This session will include:
- What happens when a user creates a Power BI app workspace
- How to control user access
- Working with different environments
- Creating and sharing reports using Power BI Apps
- How to monitor dataset schedules and failure notifications
- How to use Power BI API to document your organisation Power BI Service
Speakers
Prathyusha(Prathy) Kamasani's other proposed sessions for 2026
Designing Power BI Templates for Adoption - 2026
Fabric BI Architecture: Patterns, Workspaces, and Trade-offs - 2026
Fabric Tenant Settings: The Decisions Behind What's Open and What's Closed - 2026
Making Sense of Fabric Capacity: Start, Monitor, Scale - 2026
Prathyusha(Prathy) Kamasani's previous sessions
One dataset and three use cases with Microsoft Fabric
Are you curious about how to leverage Open Data with Fabric? In this demo filled session, I will show you how I import World Bank Open Data into Fabric using different methods: Pipelines, Data factory Gen-II, Notebooks and a mix of all three. Then I will demonstrate how I do modelling using Warehouse, Power BI Dataset model and Notebooks. Finally, I will create stunning reports using Power BI.
By the end of the session, attendees will get an idea of how each artifact would work, why one would use one over other artifacts, and understand how to create an end-to-end solution with Microsoft Fabric
Powering Up Your Power BI Development Workflow with Microsoft Fabric Notebooks
Are you excited about Microsoft Fabric and its Notebooks feature, but also feel overwhelmed by the different languages it supports, this session is for you. You will learn the basics of Python and Spark, and how to use Notebooks to write and run code. You will also discover how to leverage tools like CoPilot to assist you with code suggestions and corrections. Moreover, you will see how to use libraries like SemPy to enrich your Power BI development with advanced analytics. Join Prathy in this session and get ready to explore the possibilities of Notebooks in Microsoft Fabric.
Demystifying Power BI Slicers and filters
When it comes to Power BI Reports design, both slicers and filters have their own space and use cases. However, Slicers and filters are probably among the most frequently misused terms in Power BI design.
In this session, we will start with what are Power BI Slicers and filters. What are the differences between and when to use what? We will investigate the pros and cons of each and how to get the best of both filters and slicers in Power BI.
By the end of the session, attendees will get an overall view of Power BI slicers and filters in Power BI designing.
Power BI bookmarks in 20 minutes
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Power BI deployment strategy for publishing and maintenance
It takes minutes to create and share Power BI reports and users who has relevant Power BI access can do many things in the PBI service. In this session, Prathy will show how having a deployment strategy helps maintaining Power BI service.
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