Episode 90 – Power BI and Data Democratization with Alexander Arvidsson

by Scott | Oct 16, 2018 | Podcast

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In Episode 90, Scott sits down with Alexander Arvidsson from the Knee Deep in Tech podcast to talk about Power BI and how you can approach designing and sharing data within Office 365.

Sponsors

• Mover.io – Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck – with Mover!
• Office365Mon.com – How do you know what’s going on with the health of your Office 365 tenant? With Office365Mon!
• Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inbox
• Intelligink – We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business

Show Notes

• “Getting Started with Office 365” webinar
• Knee-Deep in Tech Podcast
• Power BI updates: Fusing AI and data visualization | Microsoft Ignite 2018

About Alexander Arvidsson

Alexander is a principal solutions architect at Atea in Linköping, Sweden. Nobody really knows what that means to be a principal solutions architect, but he spends his days helping clients of all shapes and sizes to take better care of their data. He has spent the last 20 years toying with databases and related infrastructure services such as storage, networking, and virtualization, occasionally emerging from the technical darkness to attend a Star Wars convention somewhere in the world.

He is a Microsoft Data Platform MVP, frequent international speaker, podcaster, Pluralsight author, blogger, and a Microsoft Certified Trainer, focusing on SQL Server, Azure and Power BI. You can find him on Twitter at @arcticdba and on Pluralsight at https://www.pluralsight.com/authors/-alexander-arvidsso.

About the sponsors

	Mover is a cloud migration company that specializes in moving your company’s files from file servers or cloud storage like Box, Dropbox, and Google, into Office 365. Their patented technology makes Mover the fastest OneDrive file migrator in the world. Moving dozens of terabytes of data a day is a breeze. Scan, Plan, Migrate, Report. Migrations that don’t suck – with Mover! Visit mover.io for more info.
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	Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT
	Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.