Microsoft Fabric Training
Microsoft Fabric Training

Community Solutions

The community is at the heart of everything we do at Microsoft Fabric Training! Our goal is not to just have tens of thousands of people consuming content (like we had with our content on Learn Data Insights) but rather for members to contribute their own challenges and sucess stories so that others can learn from them! 

This upcoming feature is a showcase of some real data challenges (however small!) that members of the community have solved with Microsoft Fabric, outlined here as a worked example for others to learn from! If you have a candidate problem/solution, please fill in the contact us form and let us know!

ICAEW Power BI Tips & Tricks Live: your questions answered

ICAEW Power BI Tips & Tricks Live: your questions answered
In this webinar, Rishi and Gary Watson ( Digital Skills Lead at Forvis Mazars UK) were on hand for over 700 live attendees who wanted to gain a better understanding of using Power BI and its applications in accounting. Rishi and Gary shared insights on transforming and visualising financial data in Power BI and explored […]
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Storytelling with Data (Power BI and Fabric Manchester)

Storytelling with Data (Power BI and Fabric Manchester)
Communicating through telling stories is an innate part of what it means to be human. It’s what allows us to share beliefs and build connections in a way that the brains of other animal species simply aren’t wired to do. We’re used to telling stories through essays and creative writing, but when it comes to […]
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Credit Risk Modelling in Excel, Power BI and Fabric

Credit Risk Modelling in Excel, Power BI and Fabric
This solution explores how to transform an Excel-based credit rating model for government authorities into an interactive and scalable report using Power BI and Microsoft Fabric. Participants learn techniques to modernise complex financial models and leverage the advanced capabilities of Power BI for analysis and storytelling. • Replicating Complex Rating Logic: Translating intricate credit rating […]
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Power BI for Financial Data e-learning course (Beginner/Intermediate)

Power BI for Financial Data e-learning course (Beginner/Intermediate)
Using a realistic accounting dataset, this course empowers you to automate your month-end reports using the built-in data transformation, logic and visualisation capabilities of Power BI. You will be able to generate powerful insights on financial performance all without the manual effort of continually producing different cuts of data/pieces of analysis. Upon completion, participants will […]
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E-learning course: Fabric and Power BI Governance

E-learning course: Fabric and Power BI Governance
This free e-learning course is a fun and interactive way for participants to learn about Fabric Governance with role-play avatar videos and interactive exercises. In these videos there are debates around how to balance the requirement for self-service with implementing sufficient technical controls to restrict access to potentially sensitive data. The course is split across […]
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Power BI and Fabric Copilot course

Power BI and Fabric Copilot course

In this 1 hour e-learning course which uses a Finance dataset (the same I use on the Financial Reporting with Power BI course), I cover how to leverage tools such as Power BI/ Fabric Copilot, and Generative AI tools more broadly, to automate the full end-to-end analytics workflow This workflow covers everything from requirements gathering […]
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Grow CFO Webinar – Interactive Financial Statements in Power BI

Grow CFO Webinar – Interactive Financial Statements in Power BI
Event Description: If you’ve tried using Power BI for financial analysis or reporting, you’ve likely found that simple things like subtotals, sorting and mixed formats (e.g. currency and percentages) for financial statements appear to be much harder than they should be!  But the data model that sits behind a Power BI report can support all of these things out of the box and brings many additional […]
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DP600 Practice exam quiz questions

DP600 Practice exam quiz questions

I’ve used e-learning software to create over 250 questions (so far!) for the DP-600 exam across the syllabus areas. These include a mix of question types (multiple choice/response, matching etc) and provide detailed answers with links to learn more regardless of whether the user gets the question right or wrong. After each quiz attempt the […]
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Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) – Harness the potential of Power BI to solve data challenges

Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) – Harness the potential of Power BI to solve data challenges
In a session presented to nearly 1000 chartered accountants/ICAEW members (with 50+ questions asked in the chat!) , I presented an overview of Power BI and its application to Finance. In this session I explored how Power BI can be leveraged to address the common challenges and roadblocks finance teams face when using complex and […]
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PBIMCR – LDI Quiz Analytics in Microsoft Fabric

PBIMCR – LDI Quiz Analytics in Microsoft Fabric
In this session (which Rishi co-presented with one of his colleagues from Avanade-Harry Ault), they gave an overview of Microsoft Fabric and looked at some use cases for analytics scenarios. They then looked at pain points in managing the quiz/user data behind LDI (www.learndatainsights.com) – how to analyse the set of XML files that are […]
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MVPs demo Microsoft Fabric

MVPs demo Microsoft Fabric
This introduction to Microsoft Fabric is hosted on the Azure Synapse YouTube channel which is run by Microsoft employees and has over 200 videos on  a range of Fabric and Synapse topics. ​In this first video in the MVP session, Rishi joins fellow MVPs Andy Cutler, Shabnam Watson and Kevin Arnold to look at an […]
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SQL Bits 2022 – Power BI Governance 6 Steps to success 
So you’ve had Power BI in your organisation for a few years now, and it’s grown rapidly at a grassroots level, but you have little or no central oversight of what’s been developed, what content is being consumed and who its been shared with. How do you get a handle of your Power BI environment […]
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New York City Taxi Report (2.4bn rows)

New York City Taxi Report (2.4bn rows)
This report takes a 2.4 billion row dataset on New York City taxis and looks at how to build a complete end-to-end solution using Azure Synapse and Power BI. In the session linked to below, we cover everything from designing an data model with an aggregated fact table, ingesting data from Azure SQL DW into […]
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Building an Income Statement End to End
In this session Rishi will show how to build an Income Statement in Power BI end-to-end, looking at: • Capturing requirements for the report and scoping/designing a data model with scattered/inconsistent transaction data • Use of an “FS Lines” table to have metadata-driven financial statements including custom calculations • Creating Dataflows to ingest data from […]
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Financial Reporting with Power BI and Excel
In this session Rishi will show how to build an Income Statement in Power BI end-to-end, looking at: ​ • Capturing requirements for the report and scoping/designing a data model with scattered/inconsistent transaction data ​ • Use of a “FS Lines” table to have metadata driven financial statements including custom calculations ​ • Creating Dataflows […]
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Microsoft Power BI UK User Group – Power BI Governance 6 Steps To Success 
Join our Microsoft Power BI – UK User Group for our monthly webinar in association with Onyx Data (onyxdata.co.uk). This month we are excited to announce our host Leon Gordon will be introducing Microsoft MVP Rishi Sapra. So you’ve had Power BI in your organisation for a few years now, and it’s grown rapidly at […]
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PUG Italy Webinar – Why Accountants Should Love Power BI
The Italian Power BI User Group is proud to present Rishi Sapra (MVP), who joined us to talk about some of the Power BI features that accountants could find particularly useful in the fifth webinar of our 2020/2021 season!
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Power BI Administration Tips
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Modernising the Finance Function with Power BI – Rishi Sapra (Altius) and Amy Boyd (Microsoft UK)
In this comprehensive overview of Power BI (Desktop and service) applied to a finance scenario, learn how to take advantage of all the functionality that Power BI has to offer including: – Automatically consuming files in a folder – Storytelling with data – Dynamics graphs and measures – Waterfall charts and tables – Row Level […]
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Internal and External Sharing/Distribution in Power BI
A recording of the session held for the Power BI Manchester User Group (Virtual) on 30th April 2020 where Rishi covered admin tips and tricks as well as a comprehensive overview of the various options for sharing and distributing Power BI content, internally and externally
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Modern Power BI Architecture with Dataflows
In this episode, we’re joined by Microsoft MVP and Senior Power BI Consultant Rishi Sapra (https://twitter.com/rsaprano). We’ll look at how Power BI can be deployed at an enterprise scale using dataflows. Combined with Governance and adoption strategies, this allows companies to implement managed self-service Intelligence across a large organisation.
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Power BI Days – Aggregations and What if Scenario Modelling in Power BI
Power BI isn’t just a read-only historical view of your data – you can also enter parameters which feed into your model and drive outputs under different scenarios. In this session Rishi will show this process using a simple Power Apps form embedded into Power BI, supported by a basic workflow. This solution is made […]
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Case Study: Environment Agency Project Report

Case Study: Environment Agency Project Report
This report was for my (fictional) interview case study at Altius in August 2016 and was later published into the community. The slide images below show the full thought process of this as a project from Requirements gathering to Power BI Report build to future architecture design with “Real-time” insights driven from the Environment Agency […]
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