Can you teach Claude, or any LLM, to follow your standards and your guidelines, so that when it connects to a Power BI model, when it wants to build a semantic model or a report, it does it exactly as you do, following all the instructions that you would normally provide? Yes, it is possible. Read more about Teach Claude Your Power BI Standards, Custom Skills for the Power BI Modeling MCP Server[…]
AI can perform a lot of interesting tasks these days. It can check your email. It can draft an email response. And it can do many actions within the Power BI environment — including creating a complete Power BI report entirely from a prompt window, without touching anything inside Power BI Desktop. This is possible Read more about No-Code Power BI Report Authoring — GitHub Copilot + Fabric Skills + Power BI Desktop Bridge[…]
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[…]
You can build an application whose frontend is TypeScript and ReactJS, and whose backend is a Power BI semantic model — meaning you get a fully interactive, visualized report inside your application without it being a Power BI report at all. Project Rayfin makes this possible. And it is going to change the way we Read more about Rayfin Data App — The Future of Power BI Reporting[…]
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[…]
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[…]
What if you could create a complete Dataflow Gen 2 in Microsoft Fabric — with data connections, merge transformations, and a fully built date table — without writing a single line of M code? Not as a theoretical future capability. Right now. Today. In this video, I show you exactly how to do that using Read more about No Code Dataflow Gen 2 in Microsoft Fabric Using GitHub Copilot and Fabric Skills[…]
Documentation is one of those things that every data team knows they should do — and almost nobody does well. You build a Power BI semantic model. You create reports. You set up workspaces, schedules, and refresh jobs. You document none of it because there is no time, no simple way to do it, and Read more about No Code, No Tools: Documentation for Power BI and Fabric Using Fabric Skills and GitHub Copilot[…]
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[…]