About Nadim Abou-Khalil

Nadim Abou Khalil is a Berlin-based Senior Analytics Engineer with nearly a decade of experience designing modern data platform architectures using Microsoft Fabric and Power BI. With a background in Accounting & Business, he bridges finance and tech to deliver scalable, automated, and code-first analytics solutions. Nadim specializes in semantic modeling, FinOps, and cloud cost optimization—and is known for leading hands-on workshops and speaking at conferences like FabCon Europe. He’s also the creator of the YouTube channel PowerÆgg, where he shares tutorials and insights on Microsoft’s modern BI stack.

Is Snowflake competing directly against Fabric?

Snowflake as a Competitor With the recent introduction of Snowflake Cortex and Snowflake Intelligence, it's evident that Snowflake is investing significantly in integrating retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and agentic AI capabilities into its SaaS data platform. Microsoft Fabric is advancing in the same direction, with features like Copilot, AI Functions, and Data Agents - but [...]

By |2025-08-15T20:51:17+01:00August 8th, 2025|Concepts, Fabric, Snowflake|0 Comments

Beyond Static Charts: Building an Interactive Pie Chart That Actually Tells a Story

We’ve all seen them—those lifeless pie charts buried in dashboards, silently displaying data with no context, no story, and no spark. A few weeks ago, I found myself staring at one and thinking, “There has to be a better way.” I didn’t want just another chart; I wanted a visual that helped [...]

By |2025-08-03T13:59:30+01:00August 3rd, 2025|Power BI, vibe coding|0 Comments

Fabric Tutorial – Taming Large Data Models in Power BI

Working with large datasets in Power BI can be challenging, especially during development when importing the full semantic model can slow down performance or even crash your environment. To solve this, I created a method that uses parameterized imports to allow developers to work with only a slice of data—without [...]

By |2025-08-02T12:41:29+01:00August 1st, 2025|Fabric, Power BI, Tutorial|0 Comments

Transforming Cloud Billing: Implementing a Multi-Cloud FinOps Solution with FOCUS™

Managing multi-cloud billing data efficiently is critical for organizations striving to balance cost optimization, transparency, and sustainability. Currently, many organizations struggle to consolidate could billing data from different providers in a single unified solution. Have different ingestion scenarios, siloed data architectures, and various data formats and granularities when combining cloud billing data from various [...]

By |2025-08-02T12:36:52+01:00July 30th, 2025|Fabric, FinOps|0 Comments

New Native Power BI Clustered Column Functionalities

After watching the following tutorial from Injae Park  it is clear that the new IBCS standards injection into Power BI visuals (since the Feb 2024 update), including overlapping clustered column chart functionalities, allow us to reflect more data in a condensed manner. The result is better story telling, a quicker insight into delta values [...]

By |2025-08-15T20:49:48+01:00February 28th, 2024|Fabric, Power BI, Tutorial|0 Comments

Microsoft Fabric Pipeline – Copy Data to Warehouse with Dynamic Variables

In this small data copy pipeline, the idea is to dynamically set a table name as a variable and execute activities in the consecutive pipeline activities that use this variable to perform the computations. For example, the first two activities that run in parallel, are the variables that set values to be used. v_table_input [...]

By |2025-08-03T18:45:20+01:00February 6th, 2024|Fabric, Medallion, Tutorial|0 Comments

Microsoft Fabric – Lakehouse – Bronze to Silver – Medallion Architecture Practice

As Microsoft Fabric is offering an analytics engineering certification, I decided to share some of the things I'm learning along the way. I felt particularly motivated when learning about the Lakehouse medallion architecture, as you can automate processes, improve data quality and serve several stakeholders at the same time. For this article I have [...]

By |2025-08-03T14:57:13+01:00January 30th, 2024|Fabric, Medallion, Notebook|0 Comments

Power BI – Field Parameters and Use Cases

For this Power BI video tutorial we will look at all the use cases for field parameters I could think of. RLS & OLS Add field parameters. Add field parameter fields to visual. Create security roles for row level security. Add object level security to the appropriate fields. Note: When adding OLS, be [...]

By |2023-04-12T08:15:35+01:00April 12th, 2023|Uncategorized|0 Comments
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