Brett Powell is the owner of and business intelligence consultant at Frontline Analytics LLC, a data and analytics research and consulting firm and Microsoft Power BI partner. He has worked with Power BI technologies since they were first introduced as the SQL Server 2008R2 PowerPivot add-in for Excel 2010. He has contributed to the design and development of Microsoft and Power BI solutions of diverse scale and complexity across the retail, manufacturing, financial, and services industries. Brett regularly blogs and shares technical papers regarding the latest MSBI and Power BI features and development techniques and patterns at Insight Quest. He is also an organizer of the Boston BI User Group.
Erin Stellato, featured in Developing Solutions for System Monitoring and Administration, is a principal consultant at SQLskills and Microsoft Data Platform MVP.
I'd first like to thank Varsha Shetty, acquisition editor at Packt, for giving me the opportunity to author this book and her guidance throughout the planning process. I'd also like to thank the Packt board and team for approving the book outline and for their flexibility with page counts and topics. Like most Power BI projects, we followed an agile delivery model in creating this book and this allowed us to include essential details supporting the recipes and the latest Power BI features. Additionally, I'd like to thank Mayur Pawanikar, content editor at Packt, for his thorough reviews and guidance throughout the development process. His contributions were invaluable to the structure and overall quality of the book.
I'd also like to thank Gilbert Quevauvilliers and Juan Tomas Oliva Ramos for their technical reviews and suggestions.
Finally, I'd like to thank the Power BI team for creating such an amazing platform and for everyone around the Power BI community that contributes documentation, white papers, presentations, videos, blogs, and more.
