To the Power BI Team – Happy Birthday and congratulations on all of your achievements! You’ve spawned a fantastic product plus a wonderful ecosystem of creative partners, happy consultants, MVPs and Community Contributors, User Group Leaders, and, of course, don’t forget the users. I’d like to thank and congratulate you! I appear in the video, a little way in.

Here’s a video that we all put together; Adam Saxton (@GuyInACube) put it together and worked with Paul Turley did the cat herding getting MVPs together.

Continuing the work, I’m one of the co-organizers of the London Power BI meetup, and we are having a Finance focused meetup this Thursday. Please find more details here amd register here:

Power BI in Financial Services – Rishi Sapra

Rishi will demo Power BI to analyse and visualise some financial datasets and explain why it is just perfect for Financial Services. This includes how and why analysts might move from Excel to PBI for data analysis/discovery as well as a high level view of how Microsoft are positioned within the self-serve/enterprise BI space compared to vendors such as Qlik, Tableau and IBM. Key topics to be covered include:

•  Overview of key functionality of Power BI and how it helps meet the needs of analysts working in Financial Services

•  A look at the EBA Stress Test dataset – both in Excel and then in Power BI

•  A Hands-on demo of working with this data to carry out data cleansing/transformation, calculations and visuals

•  How you can share your reports, keep the data up to date and apply security access by publishing to the Power BI portal.

See you there!