Better Together: Power BI and Azure Synapse Analytics

Bradley Schacht

We’ve all been there. You poured hours into creating an amazing Power BI report. The visuals are stunning. The model is perfectly curated. All the business needs are met. Then you deploy it to production and realize you didn’t account for the data volume. Refreshes are taking forever, if they complete at all, and the data is growing on a daily basis…or worse yet in real-time!

Thankfully there is a solution: Power BI + Azure Synapse Analytics

Data warehouses and Data Lakes, like those built in Azure Synapse Analytics, are wonderful tools for creating a single source of truth and keeping historical data. They often grow to hundreds of terabytes or even petabytes creating challenges for even the most advanced reporting tools like Power BI. Learn how Power BI and Azure Synapse Analytics come together to visualize data small and large. Learn tips and tricks for development, deployment, monitoring and tuning Azure Synapse when refreshing or using Power BI’s Direct Query mode, and how Synapse dedicated and serverless SQL pools come together for large scale or near real-time reporting. You will also hear tips and tricks for how to make Synapse even faster with features like result set caching and materialized views. Power BI and Azure Synapse truly are better together.