6 High Altitude Sessions for Power Platform at Microsoft Ignite 2019

This year’s Ignite promises a five (or six) day celebration of Microsoft’s latest innovations and technologies. Including Power BI and the rest of the Power Platform. If Power Platform is your reason for attending, or if you are looking to leave Ignite with a fuller vision for digital transformation in your enterprise , you owe it to yourself to check out this shortlist of high-altitude sessions that will give tremendous insight into the current capabilities and future trajectory of the platform:

THR2178 – Adopting the Microsoft Power Platform in the enterprise

More and more large organizations with complex missions are connecting siloed data, engaging customers, and driving ROI with amazing custom solutions on Power Platform — Microsoft PowerApps, Power BI, Microsoft Flow and the Common Data Service (CDS). Mature organizations realize that rigor, discipline, and best practices are needed to truly adopt such a nimble, yet versatile, platform at scale. This session introduces the Power Platform Adoption Framework and gives an overview of its start-to-finish approach to help you and your organization get the most value out of any form of Power Platform available to you today. We also share how other enterprise organizations have scaled with large and complex needs using Power Platform and what were the tools, best practices and patterns they explored and used to become successful adopters.

If you are responsible for any part of the success of the Power Platform in your organization, this one is can’t miss. But even if you are more focused on development will give a great overview of best practices for successfully scaling the platform to the right size for your deployment!

BRK007 – Empower everyone in your organization to drive digital transformation with the Microsoft Power Platform

Organizations have embraced the value of having data at the center of their business. It is coming from everywhere: web, social media, CRM/ERP systems, and people. But how can you enable everyone in your organization, regardless of their technical background, to leverage this data and drive better business outcomes? How do you democratize AI so it can work for all? That’s where the Power Platform comes in! By enabling users to Analyze, Act, and Automate it helps everyone to participate in and drive efficiency through digital transformation. Join the Power Platform leadership team and our growing global community of millions of active users that is driving this type of change everywhere.

I had the pleasure of meeting Arun Ulagaratchagan earlier this year. You won’t want to miss the General Manager of Power BI’s vision for the transformation possible with the platform!

TK04 – Unleashing your organization’s creativity and innovation with a deep dive into the Microsoft Power Platform

The Power Platform (Power BI, PowerApps, Microsoft Flow) represents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to unleash organizational creativity and innovation, by arming those closest to your business processes with the tools to analyze and transform them. And unlike past approaches to “low-code” application development and business intelligence, the Power Platform avoids chaotic “application sprawl.” Join James Phillips, CVP, Business Applications Group, to see how IT organizations retain control through an administrative approach that centralizes governance and policy enforcement – offering “guard rails” while empowering business users with intelligence – giving them the best of both worlds. Learn how some of the world’s leading organizations across industries have harnessed the Power Platform to eliminate their application backlogs, enhance insights, improve productivity, and transform their organizations at a pace previously impossible.

Once in a generation? That might not be overstatement. Catch the excitement of this opportunity to unleash and transform your business with real life success stories and use cases from global market leaders!

BRK2172 – Microsoft Power BI: Business intelligence strategy, vision, and roadmap update

Power BI enables customers and partners to do more with their data. Come to this session and join our business intelligence leadership as we share the latest information about our strategy, vision, and roadmap for Power BI.

Get the news, vision, and roadmap for where Power BI is headed in the coming year! These roadmap sessions are always full of exciting new features and functionality that extend what Power BI and the rest of the platform can do for your organization.

BRK3207 – Microsoft Power BI: Roadmap for enterprise information management – data lineage and impact analysis, data protection, and data discovery

BI professionals use Microsoft Power BI today to build complex analytical projects spanning multiple data sources, artifacts, and dependencies. This session covers some of the new experiences we’re introducing to help administrators and professionals to manage and govern these advanced analytical projects. Come and learn more about how we are empowering our users to track lineage and understand impact across their projects, discover their organizational assets, or set granular policies and controls, all key to their daily work.

Data Governance and Security are among the hottest topics in the industry right now. And the end-to-end governance features of Power BI are among the most robust available. This session will provide an overview of how how to employ best practices to fully protect and fully utilize the data assets of your enterprise.

THR3094 – Power BI and Microsoft Information Protection: The game changer for secure BI

BI professionals use Microsoft Power BI today to build complex analytical projects spanning multiple data sources, artifacts, and dependencies. This session covers some of the new experiences we’re introducing to help administrators and professionals to manage and govern these advanced analytical projects, including Active Directory integration, BYOK, and Row Level Security, focusing on MIP and MCAS integration.

Once again, there’s no more important topic in this space right now. Between this and the previous session, you owe it to yourself to attend one of these to make sure you are on top of emerging requirements and best practices to ensure your data is as protected as it is useful.

And that’s our high-altitude hotlist for Power Platform at Ignite! Follow the Softcrylic Blog for additional Ignite discussion and content. We hope to see you there!