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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250915
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250919
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URL:https://rishisapra.com/events/fabcon-europe-2025-navigating-the-journe
 y-from-excel-to-fabric-and-back-again/
SUMMARY:Fabcon Europe 2025: Navigating the journey from Excel to Fabric (an
 d back again!)
DESCRIPTION:This event will be held at the European Microsoft Fabric Commun
 ity Conference\, Vienna\, Austria\, Sep 15-18 2025\n\nAbstract:\n\nFor dec
 ades\, the entire business world has been built on the flexibility and pow
 er of spreadsheets. From rocket science to credit derivatives\, a mind tha
 t could imagine it could implement it with nothing more than Excel formula
 s and cell references.  But over time this has resulted in siloed\, manua
 l processes in “Shadow IT” where some of the most valuable data and lo
 gic in an organisation is locked away in these files.\n\nBut it doesn’t 
 need to be like that! The promise of Microsoft Fabric is to bring all your
  organisational data into a single place\, in a single format where it can
  be extracted\, shaped\, enriched and secured once for use in any tool. So
 \, from an organizational perspective\, there are many benefits of such a 
 unified data platform.\n\nHowever\, it’s not obvious how you would take 
 an Excel-based process (or financial model) and bring it into a Power BI a
 nd Fabric environment. Perhaps it’s overkill to even consider such a mov
 e\, and it’s potentially a significant business risk if those analysts u
 sed to working in Excel haven’t yet developed the different skillsets re
 quired for Fabric.\n\nIn this session we will take a financial credit risk
  model in Excel and go through the thought process and workflow for bringi
 ng this into Power BI/Fabric including:\n\n 	Considering how and why to us
 e Power Query to combine and structure the data inputs into a star schema 
 (which can be done in Excel!)\n 	Implementing the business logic with DAX\
 , field parameters for increased flexibility and Translytical writeback to
  model scenarios directly from Power BI.\n 	Using visuals such as maps and
  dynamic scatter plots to tell a story with the data\n 	Breaking down the 
 stages of data transformation/shaping into a medallion lakehouse structure
  in Fabric \, with Row/Column level security at each layer\n 	Bringing the
  data at various layers back into Excel with this security model applies\n
  	Querying the data model with Copilot and Data Agents to get AI powered i
 nsights\n\nAttendees will come away with a view of how to drive “on the 
 ground” business process transformation using Microsoft Fabric and ideas
  on how analysts used to Excel can think differently about the structure a
 nd re-usability of data\, in order to take advantage of an enterprise leve
 l BI/Data platform.
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LOCATION:Austria Center Vienna    Bruno-Kreisky-Platz 1\, Bruno-Kreisky-Pla
 tz 1\, 1220 Vienna\, Vienna\, Austria
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