Matt Allington - a podcast by P3

Matt Allington is a Power BI consultant, Trainer, Microsoft MVP, author, and a friend! Matt has worked for many years in the retail and CPG industries, has a very deep knowledge of Business Intelligence and Data Analytics, and currently owns a Power BI consultancy ExceleratorBI in Australia!  Here's the link to Matt's book-Supercharge Power BI: Power BI Is Better When You Learn to Write DAX

Episode Timeline:

• 2:00 - Did Matt and Tom the SQL Rockstar previously meet each other?
• 6:25 - Matt's origin story is an epic and relatable journey of discovery
• 14:00 - The importance of process (and we adopt Matt's superior pronunciation of the word)
• 25:35 - Business, Sales, and IT (and once again the importance of Hybrid roles)
• 29:10 - The evolution of BI tools, and the best and worst of the bunch
• 37:15 - Structure VS Flexibility in BI tools
• 48:55 - Power BI and Power Query enter the fray, Excel people get angry, and everyone has the same opinion of Power View
• 53:50- The friction Tom got from adding Business Analytics to conference menus, and the birth of BACon
• 1:08:45 - Matt's connection to Rob's broken leg
• 1:11:05 - Training remotely in the COVID world, and The Collie Layout Methodology
• 1:16:20 - Rob takes exception to Matt's math

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