Power BI

Power BI turns your data into reports and dashboards people can use. It now sits inside Microsoft Fabric, reporting from the OneLake storage layer through governed semantic models, which is what stops two reports disagreeing about the same number.

Excel is brilliant for analysis and terrible as a distribution system. Power BI gives you refreshed, governed, shareable reporting, and it still plays nicely with Excel where Excel is the right tool.

Per user Pro and Premium Per User licences, plus Fabric capacity for larger estates. We size the right mix during discovery.

With the metrics that run the business. We build certified semantic models for those first, retire the duplicates, and grow from a trusted core rather than trying to fix everything at once.

It inherits your Microsoft 365 security, with row level security controlling who sees what inside a report. Governance is part of the build, not an afterthought.

It is the agreed definition of your measures, sitting between the raw data and the reports. It matters because it is the thing that makes revenue mean the same in every report. Without one, each report author invents their own and the arguments start.

Almost always because two reports disagree and nobody can explain why. It is rarely a Power BI problem. It is a definitions problem, and that is what we fix first when we are asked to rescue a reporting estate.

It can, and the quality depends entirely on the model underneath. Asking an AI questions about ungoverned data produces confident answers that are wrong, which is worse than no answer. Governed models first, AI second.