BI Pixie measures the effectiveness of Power BI by tracking usage, interactions, and engagement. It instruments reports (non-invasively) to capture clicks, filters, drill-throughs, time-on-view, and more; then surfaces adoption, satisfaction, performance, and security insights so you can act with evidence. BI Pixie is available on Azure Marketplace/AppSource and can be deployed in your own Azure tenant so data stays in your environment.
Why professional services for BI Pixie?
Many teams buy analytics tools but never fully realize the value. Our professional services are designed to maximize impact fast by aligning BI Pixie instrumentation, dashboards, and change actions to your goals—adoption growth, trust, and business outcomes. We tailor BI Pixie to your governance model (e.g., PII masking), integrate with existing CI/CD, and guide your team to interpret the metrics that matter. After this engagement, the ROI of your existing Power BI investment will be clearly quantified and communicated.
What’s included:
- Value Discovery & Success Plan (workshop): Map your critical reports, audiences, and desired behaviors. Define adoption, engagement, satisfaction, performance, and security KPIs using BI Pixie’s metrics. Establish a baseline and target uplift for priority reports.
- Secure, In-Tenant Deployment: Deploy BI Pixie in your subscription (serverless reference architecture). Configure privacy and governance controls (e.g., exclude or mask PII).
- Instrumentation & CI/CD Integration: Scan target reports/semantic models and apply “Pixies” (invisible native elements) to capture interactions across bookmarks, slicers, filters, tooltips, and drill-throughs—no changes to user workflows. Optionally connect to Git/GitHub or Fabric so instrumentation stays in step with report changes.
- BI Pixie Dashboard Setup & Customization: Configure the AppSource dashboard(s) to your taxonomy (workspaces, domains, product areas). Create role-based views for executives, product owners, and BI leads.
- Performance & Security Extensions (optional): Connect Log Analytics to correlate engagement with performance bottlenecks (slow visuals/pages/capacities). Enable RLS/security monitoring use cases and proactive alerts.
- Voice of the User (optional): Add embedded feedback controls and satisfaction signals; analyze sentiment alongside usage.
- Proof of Concept (PoC) with Measured Outcomes: 3–5 priority reports, representative audiences, and clear success criteria. Weekly readouts: what users actually do, where they struggle, which design choices work, and what to fix next.
- Enablement & Handoff: Admin and analyst training on interpreting metrics and running adoption experiments.
- During the PoC, you get a free trial subscription for BI Pixie.
What's not included:
- Additional costs to Microsoft for the underlying Microsoft services.
Outcomes we commit to:
- ROI clarity: A before/after ROI narrative for Power BI that ties adoption, engagement, performance, and satisfaction to business outcomes—ready for executive stakeholders. (Grounded in BI Pixie’s metric framework and dashboards.)
- Adoption uplift: We target ≥50% growth in active usage for the in-scope reports within ~90 days post go-live, by combining evidence-based design changes, targeted communications, and prioritized backlog actions. (Assumes access to channels for change management and agreement to implement recommended fixes.)
- Prioritized backlog: A data-driven backlog that focuses your BI team on the few improvements that matter, reducing rework and accelerating time-to-value.
- Team efficiency: Fewer guess-and-check iterations; faster alignment between BI, product, and stakeholders using shared, objective engagement and performance data.
Sample timeline:
Week 1 – Discovery & success plan; deploy in tenant; privacy & governance setup.
Week 2 – Instrumentation; CI/CD wiring; dashboard configuration.
Weeks 3–4 – PoC run: measure, fix, and iterate; weekly readouts; adoption-growth actions.
Week 5+ – Enablement; handoff; roadmap for scale.
(We can compress or extend based on scope and your change cadence.)
Prerequisites:
- Azure subscription with permissions to deploy the serverless components in-tenant.
- Access to target Power BI workspaces/reports; a named stakeholder for comms/change actions.
- Agreement on success criteria and measurement plan (baseline vs. target).
Deliverables:
- Deployed BI Pixie (in your tenant) with the configurations that meet your objectives and requirements.
- Instrumented reports/semantic models for the PoC scope.
- Customized BI Pixie dashboards and executive ROI brief.
- Adoption uplift plan and prioritized backlog with quantified impact.
- Training materials.