Reporting & Modeling with a Lot of Data Using Power BI and Fabric

Paul Turley

Power BI is not just for self-service reporting. It is a highly scalable data analytics platform that can handle large volumes of data at scale to create analytical and operational reports. Fabric takes Power BI next-level with Direct Lake and Gen2 Dataflows. This session will demonstrate Power BI for the enterprise and help you plan and design solutions with interactive, fast data refresh, and even real-time reporting for the entire business. Take a journey and learn to use the Power BI with Fabric to achieve the best of both worlds: performance and scale.

Can we use Power to deal with real-time data sources, very large tables, and transactional details? Yes, but it requires some planning and proper design. Out of the box, Power BI is super-fast with moderate data volumes and data schemas optimized for analytic reporting. How big is your data? Millions or billions of rows? Gigabytes or terabytes? – we can handle that.

Moving beyond the basics, learn to use Direct Lake, and DirectQuery alongside in-memory Import mode in composite models to access very large tables with real-time results; models and reports that combine interactive “dashboard-style” reports and drill-through to transactional details.