So many people on the Power BI team at Microsoft have been working day and night for the last two years making the Power BI platform and its constantly-evolving feature set more competitive against Tableau, the industry leader. Those of us outside of Microsoft in the Power BI community can also help to make Power BI more competitive against Tableau by working together to increase the amount of Power BI expertise in our industry. Power BI adoption numbers are sure to increase as companies become more confident in the fact that they can find the right people with the talent and skills to design custom Power BI solutions and to manage the wide-scale distribution of content published to the Power BI service. This is why Power BI certification will become increasingly important as we move into 2018.