The Next Evolution of Power BI — A Conversation with Mohammad Ali | Fabric Insider Ep. 10

What is the next evolution of Power BI? Will Power BI Desktop ever become a prompt-first UI? And how do you actually decide whether you need a semantic model, an ontology, or both? I sat down with Mohammad Ali — Director of Product Management for Power BI at Microsoft, overseeing the PMs across the entire Read more about The Next Evolution of Power BI — A Conversation with Mohammad Ali | Fabric Insider Ep. 10[…]

Data Integration, Migration & the Future of ETL in Microsoft Fabric — A Conversation with Wee Hyong Tok | Fabric Insider Ep. 9

Is ETL as we know it coming to an end? What is the real migration path from ADF, Synapse, or SSIS to Microsoft Fabric? And what does AI mean for the future of the ETL developer’s career? I sat down with Wee Hyong Tok — Partner Director of Product Management for Data Integration at Microsoft, Read more about Data Integration, Migration & the Future of ETL in Microsoft Fabric — A Conversation with Wee Hyong Tok | Fabric Insider Ep. 9[…]

Everyone is talking about MCP Servers. But most people still cannot clearly explain what one actually is, why it matters for Fabric, or how it differs from the APIs and skills they already use. In this episode of Fabric Insider, I sat down with Hasan Abo-Shally — Product Manager for Fabric MCP Servers and CLI Read more about Fabric MCP Servers, CLI & AI Agents — A Conversation with Hasan Abo-Shally | Fabric Insider Ep. 8[…]

This episode of Fabric Insider is a little different from the others. We are not talking about a product feature or a technical update. We are talking about a program that has shaped the Microsoft data community for over two decades — and one that a lot of people misunderstand. The Microsoft MVP program is Read more about Everything About the Microsoft MVP Program — A Conversation with Rie Merritt | Fabric Insider Ep. 7[…]

We had Fabric. Then Real-Time Intelligence. Now Fabric IQ. What comes next? That is the question I most wanted answered when I sat down with Yitzhak Kesselman — Corporate Vice President for Real-Time Intelligence at Microsoft Fabric. Yitzhak leads not only Fabric RTI and Fabric IQ but also the Microsoft observability products within Azure. This Read more about Fabric Real-Time Intelligence & Fabric IQ — A Conversation with Yitzhak Kesselman | Fabric Insider Ep. 6[…]

Christian Wade has been in the enterprise BI space longer than most. He was working with semantic models — Analysis Services, VertiPaq — long before Power BI even existed. Today he is Principal Product Manager Architect for Power BI Semantic Models at Microsoft, responsible for the intersection of product strategy, technical architecture, and customer relationships Read more about What’s Hot and New for Power BI Semantic Models in 2026 — A Conversation with Christian Wade | Fabric Insider Ep. 5[…]

Fabric Insider Series | Episode 4 | Interview with Santhosh Kumar Ravindran, Principal Product Manager, Microsoft Fabric Data Engineering at Microsoft 📺 Watch the full episode on YouTube: Fabric Insider Ep. 4 — Fabric Spark with Santhosh Kumar Ravindran 🎧 Listen on Spotify: Fabric Insider Podcast 📚 Full Fabric Insider Blog Series: radacad.com/category/fabric-insider-2026 🎬 Full Read more about Fabric Spark: Custom Live Pools, Resource Profiles & Performance Fixes — A Conversation with Santhosh Kumar Ravindran | Fabric Insider Ep. 4[…]

Power Query is one of those tools that has been close to my heart for a very long time. I wrote a full book on it, I have trained thousands of people on it, and I talk about it constantly. So when I get to sit down with the Product Manager behind Power Query and Read more about Power Query, Dataflows, and What’s Next — A Conversation with Miguel Escobar | Fabric Insider Ep. 3[…]

Fabric Insider Series | Episode 2 | Interview with Zoe Douglas, Feature PM at Microsoft If you have been following Power BI for a while, you know that visualization has always been the area most visible to end-users — yet it has also been the area where some long-standing pain points have lived the longest. Read more about The Updates and Future of Visualization in Power BI — Interview with Zoe Douglas | Fabric Insider Ep. 2[…]

Microsoft Fabric has been moving fast — and nowhere faster than in data integration. Between Microsoft Fabric Mirroring, Copy Job, Open Mirroring, and SAP integration, there is a lot to unpack. I recently sat down with Wilson Lee, Principal Product Manager at Microsoft, who leads the entire data movement area — including Mirroring, Copy Job, Read more about Microsoft Fabric Mirroring – Copy Job – SAP Integration – Interview with Wilson Lee from Microsoft[…]