Power BI Governance Audit

The Power BI Governance Audit is a two-day program in which we test all aspects of Governance in your environment against Microsoft's best practices. We advise you on the most important aspects of the Power BI tenant and Governance processes to apply them in an optimal way. We provide you with a detailed advice report with clear improvement steps. Power BI Governance refers to the set of policies, procedures and practices put in place to ensure effective and responsible use of Power BI within an organization. Power BI is a powerful business intelligence tool that allows users to visualize and analyze data from a variety of sources. Implementing governance for Power BI is critical to maintaining data integrity, security, compliance, and the overall effectiveness of the tool within an organization. It is essential for organizations to implement Power BI Governance which ensures that Power BI is used effectively and securely within the organization. Power BI-Governance Audit can help organizations manage their data sources, workspaces and capacity and set up authorization and control measures. Leveraging Microsoft Azure Services significantly enhances the governance capabilities of Power BI by providing a secure and scalable cloud environment where data management and analytics can be conducted with greater efficiency and reliability. Azure services offer advanced security features, compliance certifications, and a wide array of tools that integrate seamlessly with Power BI, enabling organizations to achieve a higher level of data governance. By integrating Power BI with Azure, organizations can benefit from a unified data governance framework that supports their data culture and governance strategy. This integration helps ensure that the right people have access to the right data, fostering a secure, compliant, and value-driven use of organizational data. Our professional services are designed to empower customers to leverage Azure’s capabilities to enhance their Power BI governance and drive business value from their data assets. The right Governance setup helps you by ensuring that the right people have access to the right data and that the organization's data is used in a secure and compliant manner. Power BI Govervance Audit also helps support the organization's overall data culture and governance strategy. This can help ensure that the organization gets the most out of its data and uses it to create business value.

For whom is Power BI-Governance relevant?

• You should always use Power BI-Governance, but here are some specific points to point out. • When there are multiple report developers and Power BI resources that do not work on the same team (and therefore do not necessarily share a common way of working with Power BI). • When collecting data from multiple data sources and delivering reports for multiple business units. • When there is a need for access control, source connections and improvement in the overall control and quality of your Power BI reports, data flows, datasets, data marts and usage.

What does this audit address?

1. Tenant settings: Power BI provides various tenant settings for organizations to customize the configuration and management of their Power BI environment to meet their specific needs and requirements.
2. Management and Governance: The operational management of users, data and reports, as well as establishing policies, guidelines and processes to ensure that the use of Power BI is consistent with the organization's strategic goals, regulations and compliance requirements
3. Workspaces: Workspaces are collaborative environments where teams can create, share and manage collections of reports, dashboards, datasets and data flows. Workspaces allow users to manage access rights, version history and deployment of analytic assets.
4. Authorization and security: includes access control with role-based permissions and row-level security, data encryption and data source security, and auditing activities for compliance and detection of unusual actions.

Format of the two-day session Day 1: On the first day the focus is on checking Administrator settings, premium capacity, Workspace setup and authorization. Day 2: On the second day, the focus is on auditing and consulting related to data sources, gateways and working agreements, as well as implementing standards and best practices for reports and datasets. Advisory Report: We present a comprehensive advisory report with key improvement steps, best practice settings and other strategies that can be applied immediately to bring Power BI Goverance up to current standards.