Sónia Cruz

Sónia is a Portuguese/German BI Specialist that has been working @DevScope, a Gold Data Analytics Microsoft Partner, for the last 6 years. Sónia's academic journey began in Biomedical Engineering, where she honed her analytical and problem-solving skills. Her passion for leveraging data to improve healthcare and decision-making led her to her current role. At DevScope, she harnesses her knowledge to drive data-driven solutions, ensuring that insights are not only powerful but also tailored to specific business needs. She is enthusiastic about anything data related - from programming to data visualization.

Sónia Cruz's Training Days

Power BI: Optimizing Your Analytics JourneySQLBits 2024

Embark on a data-driven adventure to explore Power BI's architecture, data modeling, reporting, and deployment in an enterprise BI scenario. This training day will cover best practices, optimization, and performance techniques. (in-person only)

Sónia Cruz's Sessions

Empower Your Data with Real-Time Intelligence leveraging Data Activator within FabricSQLBits 2025

Harness Fabric's real-time intelligence to unlock the value of streaming data. Learn to integrate real-time data with One Lake, use Data Activator for immediate actions, and visualize it in Power BI. Transform data into actionable insights instantly!

Decide on the fly: Real-Time Analytics in Microsoft FabricSQLBits 2024

Calling all data professionals ready to dive into the world of streaming data! In the fast-paced realm of aviation, real-time data analytics is essential. Join us to discover how Fabric's Real-time Analytics (formerly Kusto) simplifies the process of unlocking the value of your real-time data. We'll explore key use cases, demonstrate seamless data integration into your One Lake, and reveal how to visualize it all with Power BI. By the end of this session, you'll be ready to make swift, data-driven decisions in the realm of real-time analytics.

API Heroes: Auditing Your Fabric Tenant with Power QuerySQLBits 2026

Microsoft Fabric provides powerful analytics and governance capabilities, but many of the most important insights — such as workspace metadata, refresh histories, which artifacts exist in your tenant and who has access to them — are only accessible through REST APIs. These include both non-admin APIs, which allow individual users to query their own artifacts, and admin APIs, which provide tenant-wide auditing and artifact visibility. By leveraging these APIs with Power Query, you can audit and gain clear visibility into your Fabric tenant, helping you stay organized and productive without writing custom code. In this session, you’ll learn how to use Power Query as a low-code API client to retrieve, shape, and analyze information from both non-admin and admin endpoints. Through practical demos and real-world examples, you’ll see how this approach empowers teams to maintain oversight of their Fabric artifacts, streamline governance, and build reusable datasets for reporting and auditing purposes.

Power BI Security Playbook: A Framework for Naming, Access, Governance, and RLSSQLBits 2026

Managing access and security in Power BI can quickly become complex, especially as your organization scales. Without a structured approach, teams risk inconsistent naming, overly permissive access, and governance challenges. In this session, I’ll share a practical framework for Power BI access management, built from my real-world experience. You’ll learn how to implement naming standards, workspace and dataset roles, Row-Level Security (RLS), and governance processes in a consistent and repeatable way. Through step-by-step examples and lessons learned, this session provides a repeatable method for auditing, organizing, and securing your Power BI environment, helping you maintain clarity, control, and productivity even in enterprise-scale deployments.