Agenda

• 18:30 - Hello, introductions, and festive quiz!!
• 19:00 - Matthew Roche - Building a Data Culture with Power BI
• 20:00 - Stewart Hunter - Monitoring Power BI usage

Matthew Roche - Power BI CAT Team

Building a Data Culture with Power BI

Succeeding with business intelligence involves technical skill and deep understanding of the business problems being solved. With traditional BI tools, delivering solutions typically requires collaboration between technical data professionals and business professionals. With modern self-service BI tools like Power BI, business professionals are empowered to produce more with less IT involvement, but success still requires efficient collaboration between business and IT. There is no one "right" or "best" way to deliver managed self-service capabilities, but there are common patterns and approaches that successful teams apply. Some companies have found the right balance - some are still struggling.

In this insight-packed session, Matthew Roche from the Power BI CAT team will present guidance on creating and maintaining a data culture, and establishing a successful center of excellence for delivering managed self-service business intelligence using Power BI. This guidance will be distilled from patterns and practices learned from engagements with over 150 global enterprise organizations that are using Power BI as their enterprise BI platform.

If you're struggling with challenges from self-service BI, if you're tasked with establishing a BI center of excellence and don't want to reinvent the wheel, if you want to help establish a sustainable data culture within your organization - or if you just want to a head start to understand the road ahead, join Matthew to learn from those who have gone down that road before you.

Stewart Hunter - Lead BI Engineer - Arnold Clark

Monitoring Power BI usage

Handling security and understanding usage in Power BI can be difficult, especially when reports are being used by hundreds or thousands of users. The Power BI usage reporting is useful but doesn’t give a great view of company wide adoption and usage.

This session will look at how we can use Powershell and Active Directory to control report access and understand how reports and datasets are being utilised throughout an organisation.