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Microsoft Regional Director & MVP

20 Power BI Pro Users = $280/Month. A Fabric F2 Is 20 Power BI Pro Users = $280/Month. A Fabric F2 Is $250 (Rayfin App)

What does it really cost to share Power BI reports with your users? ๐Ÿ’ฐ

Here is the math I show in this Short:

๐Ÿ‘ค Below F64, every user who views your report needs a Power BI Pro license: $14 per user
๐Ÿงฎ With 20 users, that is $280 a month
๐Ÿท๏ธ F64 or higher (premium) removes the per-user license, but it is about $5,000 a month
โš™๏ธ With a Rayfin Fabric App, the app runs on a Fabric capacity. An F2 is $250 a month, and $156 a month with a yearly contract

The comparison is for users who are not self-service users, the ones who just want to browse the content.

One caveat: the load matters. In some situations F2 might not be enough, and you might need to go one level up. Even then, the price point looks much better than paying Pro licenses.

(Prices in US dollars, as quoted in the video.)

The full video and the blog post will be in the comments ๐Ÿ‘‡

#MicrosoftFabric #Rayfin #FabricApps #PowerBI #PowerBIPro #FabricF2 #PowerBILicensing #FabricCapacity #SemanticModel #DataApp #PowerBIReporting #FutureOfPowerBI #DataAnalytics #CostOptimization #RADACAD
Success is NOT for smart people. ๐Ÿš€ One of the Success is NOT for smart people. ๐Ÿš€

One of the biggest misconceptions about success is that successful people are smart. I completely disagree.

Success is about so much more than IQ:

๐Ÿ”ฅ Willpower: believing you can do something, and setting your mind on doing it
๐Ÿ’ช Motivation, and how hard you are willing to work
โณ How wisely you use your time to reach your goal

I was not the person with the highest score at university. I was not first in my class, not second either. I even failed a couple of courses and had to retake them.

My motto in life is this: I can achieve everything I want. (Within human limits, of course. I am not going to control thunder! โšก)

I have always believed that, and it is what drives me in everything I do.

For me, this is the difference between successful and not-yet-successful people:

๐Ÿ“บ How much time do you spend watching TV every day?
๐Ÿ“ฑ How much time do you spend scrolling Instagram reels?
๐ŸŒ How much time do you spend browsing, or chatting with GPT with no goal or target?

Successful people spend their time wisely, toward their target. They work out. They read books (or listen to them, like I do on Audible ๐ŸŽง). They spend time with friends who share their mindset. That is how they lift the "impossible" barrier. Not with IQ.

There are things we cannot change: where we were born, the environment we grew up in, our family, our childhood traumas.

But if you still believe those are the reason you are not where you want to be, that is on you. You are the master of your life. From today, what you do with it is your choice. ๐ŸŽฏ

What is one thing you will do with your time today to get closer to your goal? Tell me in the comments ๐Ÿ‘‡

#Motivation #Success #Mindset #PersonalGrowth #Willpower #Discipline #GrowthMindset #Leadership #CareerGrowth #TimeManagement #Productivity #Inspiration #NeverGiveUp #LifeLessons #RADACAD
Fabric Warehouse on GPU: 3x to 7x Faster? Maraki & Fabric Warehouse on GPU: 3x to 7x Faster? Maraki & Conor | Fabric Insider Ep. 27

โšก GPU acceleration in Fabric Data Warehouse is a toggle in workspace settings
๐Ÿ“Š TPC-H numbers: 3x, 6x and 7x, depending on concurrency
๐Ÿ’ฐ When does GPU actually become cheaper?
๐Ÿงช Live demo: CPU vs GPU on the same query
๐Ÿ† SIGMOD 2026 Best Industry Award

https://youtu.be/t7v-4nDWIJk

#MicrosoftFabric #FabricWarehouse #FabricInsider #GPU #DataWarehouse #SQLServer #TPCH #SIGMOD #AIAgents #DataEngineering #Performance #PowerBI #DataAnalytics #Microsoft #RADACAD
Ontology in Microsoft Fabric: Do You Need It If Yo Ontology in Microsoft Fabric: Do You Need It If You Have a Semantic Model? Full Demo

๐Ÿง  What an ontology is, and why I call it semantic model ++
๐ŸŽฏ When it helps: automating an action based on the data
๐Ÿ› ๏ธ Building one on a sales semantic model in the Fabric portal
๐Ÿ“ Where the rule goes: customer retention and winback
๐Ÿค– An operational agent that writes the winback email and sends it to me for approval

https://youtu.be/P00luDJIF78

#MicrosoftFabric #Ontology #FabricIQ #SemanticModel #PowerBI #AIAgents #AgenticAI #MicrosoftIQ #DataAnalytics #CustomerRetention #BusinessIntelligence #DataEngineering #FabricAI #Automation #RADACAD
Building the Internet of Agents in the Open: my in Building the Internet of Agents in the Open: my interview with Mazin Gilbert, AAIF

I sat down with Mazin Gilbert, Executive Director of the Agentic AI Foundation, at AGNTCon + MCPCon in San Jose.

His message: open protocols let any agent work with any tool and any other agent, and no single company should control the stack.

A few numbers from his keynote (AAIF member survey, n=186):

โ†’ 81% have agentic AI in production
โ†’ 89% use or evaluate MCP
โ†’ 78% build on open source tooling

The working groups are open to anyone, and the meetings and repos are public. I put all six ways to get involved in the first comment.

Which would you start with: working groups, contributing to a project, or submitting your own?

#AgenticAI #MCP #ModelContextProtocol #AAIF #AGNTCon #MCPCon #AIAgents #OpenSource #OpenStandards #A2A #GenerativeAI #AI #LinuxFoundation #InternetOfAgents #RADACAD

@agentic_ai_foundation @techgirl1908
Context Engineering Is THE Skill to Learn: Amir Ne Context Engineering Is THE Skill to Learn: Amir Netz | Fabric Insider Ep. 26

I asked the mastermind behind Microsoft Fabric and Power BI about:

๐Ÿ”ง CI/CD in Fabric
โšก How Fabric F0 works
๐Ÿง  The role of Ontology next to a semantic model
๐Ÿค– Using AI the right way to build the medallion architecture
๐Ÿ” Security rules in Mirroring
๐Ÿš€ The Osmos acquisition
๐Ÿ“Š Fabric App and the future of Power BI reporting
๐Ÿข Fabric IQ, Microsoft IQ and AI employees

https://youtu.be/GcVE3potwno

#MicrosoftFabric #PowerBI #FabricInsider #AmirNetz #ContextEngineering #FabricIQ #MicrosoftIQ #AIAgents #Ontology #SemanticModel #DataEngineering #Mirroring #CICD #AI #RADACAD
The two days of #AGNTCON #MCPcon in #sanjose was a The two days of #AGNTCON #MCPcon in #sanjose was all about #AI #AgenticAI
Fabric Platform Updates and the Future with Kim Ma Fabric Platform Updates and the Future with Kim Manis | Fabric Insider Ep. 25 ๐ŸŽ™๏ธ

Should Power BI and Fabric developers be scared for their jobs in the AI era? I asked @kimmmmmy , CVP of Product for Fabric and Power BI. We also cover Copilot vs Skills and MCP, capacity management, governance, policies and deployment plans.

https://youtu.be/kWoBNvKGFT0

#FabricInsider #MicrosoftFabric #PowerBI #KimManis #FabricCopilot #CapacityManagement #DataGovernance #WorkspaceMonitoring #FabricPolicies #DeploymentPipelines #AIAgents #DataAndAI #FabricAdmin #AICareer #RADACAD
Will Rayfin Data Apps kill the Power BI report? My Will Rayfin Data Apps kill the Power BI report? My honest answer: ๐ŸŽฏ

But two things are genuinely changing how we share reports.

๐Ÿ’ฐ Cost: a data app can reach your audience in a much more cost-effective way than paying for Pro users
๐Ÿค– How the front end gets built: I am not building Power BI reports here. I am building visual front ends in TypeScript, using AI agents and LLMs, through the Rayfin project, then hosting and sharing them

LLMs are really good at producing HTML and TypeScript code. Something that would have taken a lot of time in the past is available now.

Put these two together, and in my point of view the way we distribute Power BI reports, and Power BI reporting in general, will not be the same.

Here is why the report stays:
โœ… Self-service users will still use Power BI reporting, because it gives them full flexibility
โœ… Most users are just report consumers, and for them a data app works better and costs much less

That is the direction I see Power BI visualization moving in.

Link will be in the comments ๐Ÿ‘‡

#MicrosoftFabric #Rayfin #FabricApps #PowerBI #FutureOfPowerBI #SemanticModel #TypeScript #AIAgents #LLM #PowerBIReports #SelfServiceBI #DataAndAI #FabricDeveloper #BusinessIntelligence #RADACAD
I spoke for two full days, then won a pickleball t I spoke for two full days, then won a pickleball tournament. Conferences are worth it. ๐Ÿ“

I was in Nashville for Community Summit North America 2026. My agenda was packed: two full-day workshops and three presentations.

And still, the part I will remember most is not the stage.

Conferences are not just for learning. They are for:

๐Ÿค Connection: meeting like-minded people, and making new friends along with seeing the old ones
๐Ÿ’ก Ideas: hearing how others are tackling the same challenges you have
๐Ÿง  Learning from the people who are actually doing it
๐ŸŽ‰ Having some fun

Between sessions I walked the expo hall, caught up with friends, and played pickleball. I even won a small tournament. ๐Ÿ†

A big thank you to the organizers for putting together such a great event.

If you work in Data & AI and want to connect with a community that looks at it from the Dynamics products point of view, this is the conference to check out.

Their next event is in October 2027 in Columbus, Ohio.

What was the best connection you made at a conference?

#CommunitySummit #CommunitySummitNA #Nashville #Conference #Networking DataAndAI Dynamics365 PowerBI MicrosoftFabric Community Pickleball ProfessionalDevelopment Speaker DataCommunity RADACAD
#Parthenon #centennialpark #Nashville #Parthenon #centennialpark #Nashville
This looks like a Power BI report. It is not. ๐Ÿ‘€ This looks like a Power BI report. It is not. ๐Ÿ‘€

Report pages. Charts. A clean layout. Opened right from the Fabric website.

But there is no Power BI report here. No PBIR file either.

It is a TypeScript and ReactJS front end, with a Power BI semantic model as the back end. Built with Project Rayfin, using the Data App template.

โœ… The data comes from your semantic model
โœ… The front end is a normal web application
โœ… You get a full visual report experience inside your own app

This could change the way we distribute Power BI reports.

I show the demo in this short. The full video covers how I built it from scratch with AI, and the cost story of sharing it.

Link will be in the comments ๐Ÿ‘‡

#MicrosoftFabric #Rayfin #FabricApps #PowerBI #SemanticModel #TypeScript #ReactJS #AI #WebDevelopment #DataApp #FutureOfBI #DataAnalytics #AppDevelopment #LowCode #RADACAD
AI is not just for developers. ๐Ÿคฏ Business user AI is not just for developers. ๐Ÿคฏ

Business users can now ask Claude questions and get answers from governed Power BI data, using the Fabric IQ MCP Server. Entra ID setup and full demo in my new video ๐Ÿ‘‡
https://youtu.be/xbZFtZHBmE8

#MicrosoftFabric #FabricIQ #PowerBI #Claude #MCP #AI #SemanticModel #DAX #EntraID #BusinessIntelligence #DataAnalytics #GenerativeAI #AIAgents #DataGovernance #RADACAD
Coffee's done, laptop's charged, and the room is s Coffee's done, laptop's charged, and the room is set. โ˜•๐Ÿ’ป

Today I'm running a full-day Academy workshop at #CommunitySummit North America in Nashville:

 Power BI Development from Ground Zero to Insightful Dashboard. We'll go from raw data to a finished, insightful dashboard in one day.

Tomorrow it's DAX from Rookie to Rock Star. 

Then this week:
๐Ÿ”น Agentic Analytics using Power BI and Fabric, Mon 3pm
๐Ÿ”น Aggregations: Power BI Fast and Furious, Tue 3:30pm
๐Ÿ”น Microsoft IQ: What is it and why you should care?, Wed 8am

If you're at Summit, come say hi. Let's make this a great week! ๐ŸŽธ

#CommunitySummitNA #SummitNA2026 #PowerBI #MicrosoftFabric DAX DataAnalytics BusinessIntelligence DataVisualization Copilot AgenticAI MicrosoftMVP MicrosoftRD Nashville DataCommunity RADACAD
Your database is in one place. Your web app is in Your database is in one place. Your web app is in another. Your semantic model is somewhere else again. ๐Ÿงฉ

That is how most data applications get built. It works, but every piece has its own lifecycle, its own deployment, its own governance and its own management overhead.

What if the whole application lived in Microsoft Fabric? ๐Ÿค”

That is Rayfin, also called Fabric Apps:
๐Ÿ”น TypeScript frontend, so you keep using VS Code and GitHub Copilot
๐Ÿ”น Fabric SQL database or Power BI semantic model as the backend
๐Ÿ”น Hosted inside your Fabric workspace
๐Ÿ”น Microsoft Entra ID for authentication

You are still building the same data application with the tools you love. The difference is one project instead of scattered components across services.

In this short I explain why building your app in Fabric, instead of somewhere else, makes sense.

Link will be in the comments ๐Ÿ‘‡

#MicrosoftFabric #Rayfin #FabricApps #PowerBI #AppDevelopment #TypeScript #DataEngineering #FabricDeveloper #MicrosoftEntra #GitHubCopilot #VSCode #DataApplications #Analytics #AI #RADACAD
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