Join our Business Intelligence Analyst Tim Volz, otherwise known as the Bearded Guy, for this months insightful Power BI session to see Power BI in practice.

You’ve spent hours planning out your data model, transforming, shaping, and cleansing the data in Power Query to create your fact and dimension tables, with relationships in accordance with all the modeling best practices in mind. You’ve built out your measures and visuals, and everything seems to be going according to plan. Until, that is, you try to refresh your data, and then…everything…slows…to…a…crawl.

If you’ve ever faced this scenario, you know how terribly frustrating the seemingly never-ending refresh can be, but have no fear – help is on the way! In this month’s session, we’ll explore a core best practice in importing and transforming data: query folding, or the means of pushing as much processing back to the source as possible. We’ll explore what it is, how to tell if it’s working, and strategies to get it working again if it isn’t, with the aim of maximizing your data refresh performance, and minimizing your frustration.

Why join our Power BI Webinar?

Tim Says: "Power BI has a great deal of flexibility but where it really stands out to me is that there's a very powerful tool underlying these dashboards. It allows you to pull your data from any source and shape it in any way you want. Effectively the back end of Power BI is an ETL tool in itself. It has great capacity to do data cleansing and data profiling and it’s a really versatile back end and I don’t think we’ve ever come across anything like it before."

Note: This webinar will take place at 2pm BST / 9am EST.

SPEAKER PROFILES:

Tim Volz, Business Intelligence Analyst, The Virtual Forge

Over the past ten years, Tim has worked on nearly every aspect of the project lifecycle, from initial contact through ongoing operational support. He’s worked in Customer Service, Project Management, and Account Management, finally settling in to a data-centric role focused on analytics and integrations. Given his background in philosophy and logic, Tim’s passion for the role should come as no surprise. When Tim’s not planning data integration strategies, designing dashboard prototypes, or troubleshooting stored procedures, he can be found running the roads of his adopted hometown, Doylestown, PA, preparing for the next distance race on the agenda.