Using Logic Apps in a Data Factory Execution Framework – Part 1

• by Meagan Longoria

• Data Savvy

Data Factory allows parameterization in many parts of our solutions. We can parameterize things such as connection information in linked services as well as blob storage containers and files...

2020-05-22 (first published: 2020-05-07)

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Power Up: Exploring the Power BI Ecosystem, May 27-28

• by Meagan Longoria

• Data Savvy

Next week I’m speaking at at the Dynamic Communities Power Up event titled “Exploring the Power BI Ecosystem“. It takes place on May 27 & 28, 2020. This exciting...

2020-05-21

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Check Out My MBAS Presentation on Power BI Report Accessibility

• by Meagan Longoria

• Data Savvy

I had the privilege of working with Tessa Hurr (PM on the Power BI team) on a presentation for the 2020 Microsoft Business Applications Summit (MBAS) about five features...

2020-05-14

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Stress Cases and Data Visualization

• by Meagan Longoria

• Data Savvy

Times are stressful right now. There is an ongoing pandemic affecting people’s health and livelihoods. Schedules are messed up, kids are home. People who aren’t used to working remotely...

2020-04-02 (first published: 2020-03-26)

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I Presented with Live Captioning and Sign Language Interpreters

• by Meagan Longoria

• Data Savvy

I had the pleasure of presenting a full-day pre-conference session on the Friday before SQLSaturday Austin-BI last weekend. I could spend paragraphs telling you how enjoyable and friendly and...

2020-02-13

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Parameterizing a REST API Linked Service in Data Factory

• by Meagan Longoria

• Data Savvy

We can now pass dynamic values to linked services at run time in Data Factory. This enables us to do things like connecting to different databases on the same...

2020-02-05 (first published: 2020-01-30)

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New Power BI Report Design Pre-Con in 2020

• by Meagan Longoria

• Data Savvy

I’m excited to announce that I will be offering a full-day pre-con about Power BI report design in the coming year called Bookmarks, brain pixels, and bar charts: creating...

2019-12-19 (first published: 2019-12-05)

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How a new custom PowerPoint template is helping us to be more effective presenters

• by Meagan Longoria

• Data Savvy

DCAC recently had a custom PowerPoint template built for us. We use PowerPoint for teaching technical concepts, delivering sales and marketing presentations, and more. One thing I love about...

2019-10-28 (first published: 2019-10-16)

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I’m Speaking at Microsoft Ignite 2019

• by Meagan Longoria

• Data Savvy

I’m happy to be speaking at Microsoft Ignite this year. I have an unconference session and a regular session, both focused on accessibility in the Power Platform. The regular...

2019-10-09

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Power BI for Communication and Marketing

• by Meagan Longoria

• Data Savvy

We often focus on deep analysis and insights generated by machine learning when we talk about Power BI these days because it’s super cool and very fancy. But I...

2019-10-08 (first published: 2019-09-26)

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