Power BI Centre of Excellence Dashboard

CASE STUDY - GLOBAL ANIMAL CHARITY

The Requirement

As organisations mature their Power Platform capability, visibility and governance become critical to ensuring sustained value.

While Microsoft's CoE Starter Kit provides rich insight into Power Apps and Power Automate usage, it offers limited visibility into Power BI, leaving a significant blind spot in the data governance landscape.

The client required a solution that would provide enterprise-level transparency of Power BI activity, aligning with their existing CoE dashboards to create a complete picture of platform adoption and utilisation.

The Challenge

Without a consolidated view of Power BI activity, organisations face:

Uncertainty around report and dataset ownership.
Orphaned or unmanaged workspaces.
Limited understanding of user engagement and licence utilisation.
Missed opportunities to rationalise content and optimise capacity.

This lack of visibility makes it challenging to optimise investment, manage risk, and drive adoption with confidence.

Our Approach

Leveraging the Maxica PULSE framework, our consultants designed an automated and secure reporting solution to capture Power BI usage, ownership, and engagement data across the organisation.

The system integrates seamlessly with existing Power Platform CoE dashboards, providing a unified view of adoption and governance across the entire Microsoft Power Platform ecosystem.

This repeatable approach delivers rapid time to insight, low ongoing maintenance, and a foundation for continuous improvement in data governance maturity and cost optimisation.

Outcomes

The Power BI CoE Dashboard delivered immediate impact by:

Providing organisation-wide visibility of Power BI assets and usage.
Highlighting ownership gaps and governance risks before they affect service integrity.
Enabling content rationalisation and improved licence efficiency.
Equipping IT and data leaders with evidence-based insight to inform governance and strategy.
Building trust in data governance through transparent, accessible reporting.

Clients benefit from improved collaboration between IT, governance, and business stakeholders, with clearer accountability and measurable progress toward analytics maturity.

Conclusion

The Power BI CoE Dashboard showcases how Maxica PULSE transforms complex visibility challenges into scalable, automated solutions.

By bridging the long-standing gap between Power BI and the Power Platform CoE, organisations can now govern with clarity, optimise with confidence, and realise the full value of their analytics estate.

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