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Power BI: Key Challenges and How to Address Them
by Tech Geekk writerBusinesses of all sizes rush to make sense of the growing data volumes – getting collected. They face a variety of business intelligence challenges that further complicate efforts to make BI processes productive, effective and useful.
And, the challenges would include a combination of multiple factors, including diverse data infrastructures, data management issues, new types of BI capabilities & varying levels of data literacy across the workforce. While on the other hand, BI teams need to ensure that proper data governance and security framework is put in place while demonstrating how BI can benefit workers, including less data-literate ones as well.
Power BI has been making a lot of waves in the digital world lately, with more and more companies turning to this Microsoft offering. If you too are considering adopting this baby, we highly recommend getting acquainted with the challenges first to ensure an optimal value proposition.
- Identify requirements: While some may feel inclined to dive into a Power BI Integration head first, it is highly inadvisable to initiate such integration without a robust strategy, especially determining precisely why the organization needs this tool. To avoid this particular challenge, it is advisable that the decision-makers first carefully study employees’ needs.
- Deciding features: It can be tricky business, trying to decide which features you need; after all, different departments and users across an organization are bound to have different needs and requirements in terms of the features they need to do their job effectively. It may feel like there is no way out of this decision but the truth is one can skillfully navigate this part of the process as well: the top brass must first identify the value Power BI brings to the organization albeit based on different users’ needs. Do not forget to factor in the cost.
- Departmental silos: If you seek to leverage the might of Power BI in an organization where the different departments are siloed, be prepared to run into an abundance of issues including the inability to achieve the true value offered by this tool. Do not fret just yet though because this issue too can be easily addressed: make sure that different teams from across the company work together to strategize different initiatives, including the use of Power BI, to ensure that they can tap into the Power BI dashboard’s full potential.
- Issues associated with self-service deployments: There is no denying that the self-service implementation bit about Power BI has made data and other requisite insights all the more accessible for departments spread across organizations, the truth is that the unrestricted usage of such data across siloed departments can quickly prove to be counter-productive. This problem, which can make it difficult to glean insights from the data, is easily addressed by the setting up of a standard Power BI dashboard and metrics that can help employees create their data charts and such. A good idea would be to ensure that self-service Power BI dashboards include KPIs that allow different dashboards to be easily distinguished from one another.
If you are just getting acquainted with Microsoft Power BI, it is understandable to feel a tad overwhelmed with the prospect of integrating a seemingly complicated tool. Despite the initial apprehensions, you can rest assured that Power BI remains among the leading options in the market for tools that help companies make better sense of their data and take their business to new heights.
However, caution is necessary even when working with a tool as potent as Power BI and hopefully the above discussion will help you successfully avoid some of the key challenges one tends to face on the path to embracing this nifty little tool. And if you still find yourself needing assistance, we highly recommend getting in touch with a trusted Microsoft Power BI consultant to help you navigate this journey of integrating Power BI into your business.
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