SQLBits 2023

Merging Power BI into Azure Devops

From a development perspective Power BI gives you some challenges you can't overcome easily. When you and your team are continuously working on Power BI files, you need a central location, to keep track of changes, find differences between versions, check out files and deploy in an easy way. In this sessions we will see how Azure DevOps helps you with versioning, CI/CD-pipelines and tracking changes in datamodels.
From a development perspective Power BI gives you some challenges you can't overcome easily. When you and your team are continuously working on Power BI files, you need a central location, to keep track of changes, find differences between versions, checking out files, and deploy in an easy way.

So, how can we start collaborating when developing Power BI models and reports? Azure DevOps helps you with versioning, CI/CD-pipelines and tracking changes in data models. In this session we check out how we can do that, with many demos of course.

Take-a-ways
- How to deal with Power BI development with and without Azure DevOps.
- How to use Azure DevOps for Power BI deployment (Power BI Pro license).
- Best practices for Power BI deployment Pipelines (Power BI Premium license).
- Professionalize your Power BI development environment.