The world of business intelligence and analytics has changed from one that IT was providing the information in an organisation to more self-service data analytics that the end user has the ability to access and consume the data from a platform such as a data warehouse, as well as being able to enhance their data analytics with other data sources. In addition, the users now can easily share content and collaborate with other users. This has enabled businesses to leverage from making better decisions in more agile way. However, giving the users a lot of freedom in accessing and sharing data without any governance can expose the businesses to serious security and privacy risks.​ In this session, we discussed what governance means when it comes to Power BI and how to implement an organisation-wide governance framework for Power BI ecosystem, without preventing the business to naturally grow in its analytics capability a long with some real-world examples and good practices.

1. Power BI Governance
Why it is important?

2. Today’s session:
1. Is self-service BI real?
2. Enterprise BI vs. self-service BI
3. Governance in Power BI
Soheil Bakhshi
Head of Product
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Email: soheil@datavizioner.com
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3. What is
Business
Intelligence?
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4. What is Self-
service BI?
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5. Accessing Preparing
Visually
Displaying
Analysing
What is self-
service BI?
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6. What is
Enterprise BI?
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7. Access Prepared Analysed
Visualised
Self-service BI
in Enterprises
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8. Self-service BI in
Enterprises
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9. Governance can
create balance
between Control
and Agility
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11. Known risks of running ungoverned
self-service BI in enterprises
•Poor data quality
•Data leakage
•Untrusted data sources
•Inaccurate data analysis
•Undocumented assets
•Long and complex hand-over processes
•Inefficient and costly
support/maintenance
•Access/permission management issues
•Power BI performance issues
•Reinventing the wheel continuously
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12. Power BI
Governance in
a Nutshell
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13. A good governance model defines
practices, documentation and
and responsibilities which ensure
efficient and secure usage of Power
of Power BI platform while increasing
user adoption
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14. Power BI governance defines
Roles Certified Data Sources
Monitoring Security Architecture
Documentation
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15. Important
Consideratio
ns
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Secure data published to the service
Who can publish reports to PBI Service
Share content to external users
Publish to web
Custom visuals
Audit logs

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