Atlanta Microsoft BI Group Meeting on September 8th (Introducing Microsoft Fabric Planning)
Atlanta BI fans, please join us online for our next meeting on Tuesday, September 8th at 18:30 ET. Eric Hood (Center of Excellence lead for Fabric Planning – PowerTable at Lumel) will introduce you to newly announced Fabric Planning, which brings enterprise planning directly into Microsoft Fabric and unifies analytics, planning, and decision making on a single trusted data foundation. Lumel will sponsor this meeting. For more details and sign up, visit our group page.
Delivery: In-person
Level: Beginner/Intermediate
Food: Pizza and drinks will be provided
Agenda:
18:30-19:00 Organizer time (events, news, sponsor marketing)
19:00-20:15 Main presentation
20:15-20:30 Q&A
Overview: On July 28th, Microsoft announced the general availability of Planning in Microsoft Fabric IQ which brings enterprise planning directly into Microsoft Fabric and unifies analytics, planning, and decision making on a single trusted data foundation. This session will provide an overview of Fabric Planning with live DEMOs and explore the three key pillars of the offering, including: Planning – for no-code, self-service enterprise planning use cases; Data Management (using PowerTable) – for building reference data apps; and Intelligence – for integrated plan vs. actual reporting and more.
Speaker: Eric Hood is the Center of Excellence lead for Fabric Planning – PowerTable at Lumel and develops content for Fabric Planning for use cases, best practices, and governance. He works with Microsoft, partners, and customers to educate their teams on that content. He is a former Power BI and Power Platform technical specialist from Microsoft, analytics service owner, and Dynamics 365 CE technical architect.
Sponsor: Lumel empowers enterprises to look forward and think ahead with an innovative suite of data products that consolidate planning, BI, and data applications on Microsoft Fabric and Power BI. With more than 400 employees, Lumel’s products serve over 3,000 customers worldwide across the Microsoft Power BI and Fabric ecosystem. Lumel co-engineered Fabric Planning with Microsoft.
