From Raw Data to Real Business Impact: Mastering Power BI and Microsoft Fabric with Thummalacherla Krishnakanth

Episode notes

Despite the rapid growth of Artificial Intelligence, Power BI continues to be one of the most valuable business intelligence platforms available today. In this episode of M365.FM, Microsoft Fabric Super User and Microsoft MVP Thummalacherla Krishnakanth explains why strong analytics foundations remain essential, even in the AI era. The discussion explores Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, DAX, Power Query, enterprise reporting, dashboard design, governance, and the future of business intelligence. Whether you are a beginner, Power BI developer, data engineer, analytics consultant, or enterprise architect, this episode provides practical insights for building scalable, high-performance analytics solutions. BUILDING SCALABLE POWER BI ARCHITECTURES Enterprise reporting requires much more than attractive dashboards. Krishnakanth explains why successful Power BI projects begin with clean data, proper data modeling, and well-designed architectures. The conversation explores star schema versus snowflake schema, fact and dimension tables, Power Query transformations, data quality, relationship design, cross-filter direction, and scalable semantic models.

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