Welcome to July! This month we have Tommy Puglia from the Chicago Power BI User Group joining us to discuss and talk about driving organizational success with Power BI.
Tommy is an expert and has spent years deploying Power BI within various organizations. Check out the video below from the July 2020 Milwaukee Brew City Power BI user group.
Oct 6, 2026
An anonymous mailbag asks whether Power BI should let people act on a number without leaving the report. Tommy Puglia and Mike Carlo put writeback in Fabric apps, keep the report for consumption, and treat translytical task flows as the exception.
Oct 1, 2026
Tommy Puglia and Mike Carlo draft a team from the FabCon Barcelona feature list, starting with Fabric app backends and the ontology authoring agent. The picks that follow are pay-as-you-go capacity, the Fabric notebook toolkit, deployment hooks, and text search in semantic models.
Sep 29, 2026
Tommy Puglia and Mike Carlo use Kurt Buhler and Eugene Meidinger's Tabular Editor piece to decide which model and effort level belongs on a Fabric task. The same hour covers FabCon Barcelona's Fabric app backend, semantic views, and why monthly active agents may matter more than monthly active users.