Episode 246 – Predictions for 2023

This is episode 246 recorded January 9th, 2023 where John & Jason review their wins & losses with their 2022 predictions, and prognosticate about what they see happening in 2023.
2022 Predictions and scores
Jason 4
- Creator experience starts the shift to online first, Power BI Desktop secondary 1
- Azure Synapse will continue to grow brand awareness and the Power BI brand will start to take more of a backseat 0
- The SharePoint Online Power BI v2.0 connector stays Beta for all of 2022 1
- Power BI continues it’s love affair with Microsoft Teams & Excel 1
- Power BI will finally get integration with Azure DevOps/GitHub 0
- Microsoft Ignite Spring 2022 will be another disappointment 1
John 3
- Clear return of In Person events – Microsoft events in the last half of the year 1
- Power Query gets a standalone client with multiple output types 0
- Deprecation of Azure Analysis Services 0
- Some sort of licensing that includes both Power BI and Synapse 0
- Web based dataset editor 1
- Quick Create report experience for Synapse 0
- New name for metamodels 1
2023 Predictions
John
- New product as a result of technical reorganization
- Power BI leaves the Power Platform
- Power BI Desktop “Lite” online report/ETL/dataset editor
- Paginated Report Editor Online
- Power Query standalone product (with premium connectors?)
- ChatGPT integrated into DAX editor a la Bing
Jason
- Kusto becomes more important to Power BI
- Office integration becomes tighter as Power BI rolls out with E5
- SharePoint & OneDrive become a much more interesting data source
- Microsoft 1st party events become more interesting from a Power BI perspective
- Paginated reports become more heavily adopted now that they are available in Pro
- We see the name Power start to drop away from top level product names