Power BI guidance documentation

Recently there has been a number of great articles published on Power BI that I wanted to make you aware of that go beyond the features descriptions found in the Power BI documentation. These new articles fall under the Power BI guidance documentation and are designed to address common strategic patterns.  Below is my summary of the articles, and check out Power BI guidance from the CAT by Matthew Roche for a more detailed summary.

• Power BI adoption roadmap: A number of roadmap articles that presents a series of strategic and tactical considerations and action items that directly lead to successful Power BI adoption, and help build a data culture in your organization. It focuses on big picture side of succeeding with Power BI, including governance, establishing a center of excellence, and empowering a community of practice. This series of articles was written by Melissa Coates, Data Platform MVP, and owner of Coates Data Strategies, with significant contributions from Matthew Roche. Reviewers include Cory Moore, James Ward, Timothy Bindas, Greg Moir, Chuy Varela, Daniel Rubiolo, Sanjay Raut, and Peter Myers. Check out Melissa’s blog at New Power BI Adoption Roadmap for more info, as well as PASS Data Community Summit 2022 Pre-Con on Adopting Power BI. The articles in this Power BI adoption series discuss the following aspects of adoption:
  • Adoption maturity levels
  • Data culture
  • Executive sponsorship
  • Content ownership and management
  • Content delivery scope
  • Center of Excellence
  • Governance
  • Mentoring and enablement
  • Community of practice
  • User support
  • System oversight
  • Conclusion and additional resources
• Power BI implementation planning. The Power BI implementation planning series is intended to help you accomplish your Power BI implementation. Its articles include key considerations, actions, decision-making criteria, recommendations, and they describe implementation patterns for important common usage scenarios. This series of articles was written by Melissa Coates, Data Platform MVP and owner of Coates Data Strategies with significant contributions from Peter Myers, Matthew Roche, Alex Powers, and Chris Webb. Check out Melissa’s blog at New Power BI Implementation Planning Guidance for more info. There are two components to the Power BI implementation planning:
  1. Usage Scenarios: Diagrams to illustrate some of the most common Power BI usage scenarios.
  2. Subject Areas: A series of subject areas that form the broader series. There will end up being somewhere around 20 of them. The goal is to provide the most important actions and decisions that are needed to implement Power BI. There are two available now: Tenant setup and Workspaces
• Power BI migration overview. The purpose of this series of Power BI migration articles is to provide you with guidance on how to plan and conduct a migration from a third-party BI tool to Power BI. This series of articles was written by Melissa Coates, Data Platform MVP and owner of Coates Data Strategies. Contributors and reviewers include Marc Reguera, Venkatesh Titte, Patrick Baumgartner, Tamer Farag, Richard Tkachuk, Matthew Roche, Adam Saxton, Chris Webb, Mark Vaillancourt, Daniel Rubiolo, David Iseminger, and Peter Myers. The articles in the Power BI migration series include:
  • Power BI migration overview
  • Prepare to migrate to Power BI
  • Gather requirements to migrate to Power BI (Stage 1)
  • Plan deployment to migrate to Power BI (Stage 2)
  • Conduct proof of concept to migrate to Power BI (Stage 3)
  • Create content to migrate to Power BI (Stage 4)
  • Deploy to Power BI (Stage 5)
  • Learn from customer Power BI migrations
• Microsoft’s BI transformation: You’ll learn about Microsoft’s BI strategy and vision, which enables them to continuously leverage their data as an asset. You’ll also learn how Microsoft successfully drove a data culture of business decision making with Power BI.
  • Microsoft’s BI transformation
  • Establish a Center of Excellence
  • BI solution architecture in the COE

Other helpful links:

• Check out Melissa Coates excellent Power BI Deployment & Governance Training Course
• Read up on Matthew Roche’s interesting blog series on building a data culture
• If you have questions on Power BI, you can try asking the Power BI Community
• Microsoft is looking for your suggestions on how to improve Power BI. If you have one, then contribute your idea to improve Power BI
• If you need migration help, there are experienced Power BI partners are available to help your organization succeed with the migration process. To engage a Power BI partner, visit the Power BI partner portal

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