In this episode, AtScale CTO and co-founder Dave Mariani chats with Greg Deckler, Vice President at a global IT services firm and a seven-time Microsoft MVP. They discuss Microsoft’s strategy with Power BI and its integration with Microsoft Fabric, with Deckler critiquing the rushed release and its early limitations. Both express skepticism about business users adopting more complex tools, citing ongoing challenges like measuring totals.
They also discuss the impact of generative AI on business intelligence tools like Power BI, urging caution about data security and governance. They also highlight the underutilization of natural language queries in Power BI despite frequent demos. Deckler speculates the future of Power BI’s support for various data platforms and Microsoft’s strategy to integrate these with Fabric.
To learn more, read Deckler’s 3 part blog series, “Is Fabric and Direct Lake a Game Changer For Microsoft?”
Transcript
Greg Deckler: Synapse is dead. And it’s not dead in terms of, it’s still going to, it’s still gonna continue on. But I ended up on a Synapse blog page, and it was a very active blog. Like, you know, three or four articles sometimes a day, and then all of a sudden it just radio silence for like two or three months after fabric launched. That’s like, oh yeah. I don’t think Synapse is, there’s much going...
