Imagine an application built entirely inside the Microsoft Fabric environment. Not an application that connects to Fabric. Not an application that reads from a Fabric data source. An application where the database is a Fabric SQL database, the semantic model is a Power BI semantic model, and the frontend is hosted and managed inside Fabric Read more about What Is Fabric App or Rayfin and Why You Should Care[…]
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[…]
Building a multilingual Power BI report has always been one of those requirements that sounded simple but turned out painful to implement. A French-speaking user opens your report and sees English category names. A Spanish-speaking user opens the same report and sees the same English values. You end up either maintaining multiple reports — one Read more about Power BI Multilingual Reports Made Simple with User-Context-Aware Calculated Columns[…]
What if you could build a complete Power BI semantic model — date table, time intelligence measures, relationships and all — without touching Power BI Desktop at all? Not a future roadmap item. Not a preview feature. Something you can set up today. In this article, I am going to show you exactly how to Read more about No Code Power BI: How to Use Claude and the Power BI Modeling MCP Server[…]
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[…]
Power BI files come in multiple formats. If you have been working with Power BI Desktop for a while, you probably know the PBIX format well. But there are other formats too: PBIT, PBIP, and PBIR. The last two are more recent additions, and there is also a language called TMDL (Tabular Model Definition Language) Read more about Power BI File Formats Explained: PBIX vs PBIT vs PBIP vs PBIR[…]
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[…]
Have you ever wondered why analytics projects fail? There are hundreds of organizations, thousands of BI teams, and countless consulting companies building analytics solutions every year. Yet a large number of those projects never deliver what they promised. Why does that keep happening? My name is Reza Rad, and I have over 20 years of Read more about Why Analytics Projects Fail: Five Reasons from 20 Years of Consulting[…]
Sharing a Power BI report sounds like it should be simple. You build the report, you publish it to a workspace, and then you give your end users access. Done, right? Well, that is exactly where most organizations get it wrong. The way many teams give access to their business users is one of the Read more about Common Mistakes When Sharing Power BI Reports from Workspace[…]
Power Platform Dataflow: A Practical Replacement for Power BI Dataflow Gen1 Microsoft has announced that Power BI Dataflow Gen1 (analytical dataflow) is being retired. If your organization is not ready to move to Microsoft Fabric — whether due to budget constraints or strategic timing — you still have a solid option: Power Platform Dataflow, also Read more about Power Platform Dataflows instead of Power BI Dataflow Gen1[…]