Reach Your Power BI Potential
Is your Power BI environment performing at its best and designed to scale and meet the growing needs of the business? BoomData can provide a simple or detailed review of your Power BI landscape as part of our Power BI Review service. This could be a high-level 3 to 5-day review or a more detailed deep-dive into your Power BI environment of 4 to 6 weeks. Depending on the level of detail you choose, we’ll deliver valuable insights into best practices for maintaining and optimising your Power BI ecosystem, resulting in faster report processing, more engaged users, better security and governance, simpler maintenance, and improved decision making for your organisation.
If you’re experiencing any of the following, then it may be time to assess your Power BI data and analytics landscape.
Depending on the level of detail you choose for the Power BI Audit, a BoomData Principal Consultant will review your Power BI instances and reports, assessing their effectiveness against best practices and providing recommendations in the following areas.
Reviewing the end-to-end data and Power BI architecture approach including ETL, data lake, data warehouse, data mart, model design and front-end interface, comparing to best practices.
Detailed review of the implementation of the Power BI data layer focusing on performance, accuracy, and maintainability of data sources, data ingestion, ETL processes, data lake, data warehouse and data marts.
Assessing and testing the validity of the numbers being produced, reconciling them to transactional data sources. Review high-priority KPI’s/measures and appropriate dimensions and time periods.
Assessing your data modelling and data architecture to support optimal performance and speed of user queries. Including a review of DAX code.
A review of key dashboards and reports and assessment of design versus best practices. We’ll advise on aspects including layout and positioning, use of chart objects, usability, use of colors and branding, use of glossaries and use of date fields.
Ensure your Power BI environment is following best practices for administration, user sharing and data security. Reviewing user and tenant security, dataset and report permissions and production environments for workspaces and Power BI dashboards.
A self service data governance model is key to continued security, compliance and efficiency. Reviewing support processes, technical skills, standardized data sets, business engagement, policies and procedures.
Contact us if you’d like to tailor a Power BI Audit for your business.