Agentic development in Power BI (MCP) | GRL 224

Описание: We’re excited to welcome Rui Romano, Principal Program Manager at Microsoft, for a groundbreaking Power BI/ AI episode about the upcoming Model Context Protocol (MCP).

🚀 What is MCP?

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is a new protocol that allows AI agents and external applications to interact with your Power BI semantic model.

It provides a powerful new way to analyze, edit, and manage your model, without opening Power BI Desktop.

Think of MCP as an AI-ready modeling server that sits alongside your existing Power BI models.

Using tools like Visual Studio Code and AI models (e.g. Claude or GPT), developers can ask questions about the model, receive improvement suggestions, and even apply changes — all through natural language and code.

During this session, Rui will walk through:

🔹 What MCP is and how it works
🔹 Real-world use in Visual Studio Code with AI agents
🔹 Demo of various usecases
🔹 Agentic development using TMDL, GitHub, and the MCP Server
🔹 Plan, build, and deploy semantic models in an AI-driven way

Whether you're into modeling, automation, or AI-powered BI - this is your front-row seat to the future of Power BI.

Index of this episode:

00:00 Start
00:40 Introduction Rui Romano / subject
06:05 New Age for Power BI Developments
14:01 What is Agentic Development in Power BI?
21:04 Developer mode / Power BI Project files (PBIP)
21:25 Tabular Model Definition Language (TMDL)
22:06 Power BI enhanced Report format (PBIR)
23:12 TMDL view – Modeling scripting experience
24:21 Demo TMDL/ Git CoPilot
39:45 Power BI Modeling MCP – 3 demos
1:05:36 Ending
1:06:01 Topic of next week


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