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Power BI environment audit
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Optimize your orgnization's Power BI management and licensing costs -
Secure your business from unauthorized access to data
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Get a report on the state of your environment
With summ-it you will discover the full potential of Power BI
Power BI environment audit – a way to optimize costs
Auditing your Power BI environment will help you:
- optimize your Power BI management and licensing costs
- secure your organization against unauthorized access to data
- optimize performance
- ensure that your Power BI environment meets all legal and regulatory requirements for data protection
- identify and correct errors, making your reports and analysis will be even more reliable
Trust the specialists with years of experience and take your data to the next level.
KEY SUCCESS CRITERIA
POWER BI ENVIRONMENTAL AUDIT
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Full inventory of resources
Identify all reports, dashboards, data sets, data flows and applications. All tanants In one place.
Optimize data processing
The performance of data refresh and report performance is at an acceptable level, with no unnecessary delays and errors.
Full management of the Power BI service
Visibility of activity, artifacts, settings and license costs In Power BI.
Licensing under control
Visibility of license assignment to user, elimination of dual licensing and removal of licenses for inactive users.
Correctness of roles and authorizations
The performance of data refresh and report performance is at an acceptable level, with no unnecessary delays and errors.
Secure data sharing
Reports and data are properly secured, and sensitive data is shared in accordance with accordance with security policies.
Compliance with the organization’s regulations and policies
Tenant is in compliance with legal requirements and internal regulations regarding data protection and security.
WHAT DOES YOUR COMPANY RECEIVE?
Get a complete view of your Power BI
Minimize maintenance costs and licenses
Improve data security
Order a free consultation
Consult your company’s needs with our experts.
Discover solutions that will help your company streamline business processes and ensure data security.
Our specialist will contact you within 24 hours.
Your data is safe.
HOW DO WE AUDIT
POWER BI ENVIRONMENT?
- Gathering customer requirements and expectations
- Interviewing users and system administrators.
- Obtaining access to all audited environments. Preferred use of Service Principal.
- Collection of data from the tenata logs of the Power BI service.
- Collect information about the Power BI service catalog – workspaces, semantic models, reports, etc.
- Gather information about actions and activities in the Power BI service.
- Gather information about Power BI tenant(s) settings.
- Taking information about the users using the service.
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Data processing performance:
- Identify bottlenecks and performance issues when refreshing models and data flows.
- Monitoring peak load and component activity.
- Assessing the utilization and scaling of the Power BI infrastructure.
- Configuration and load of Power BI gateways.
- Catalog of Power BI service objects.
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Content of workspaces:
- Popularity of reports and identification of most frequently displayed items.
- Analysis of active use of objects.
- Level of Power BI adoption in the organization.
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Users and roles:
- Role compliance with security policies and data access.
- Audit of object sharing and security.
- Audit of tenant settings.
- Compliance of tenant settings with default settings and best practices.
- Compile a list of observations about the analyzed environment and identify a list of recommended changes to optimize the use of the Power BI service and data security.
- Evaluate the potential effects of implementing the changes from the perspective of performance and compliance with best practices in the context of the defined measure of success.
- Summary of the results of the audit of the Power BI environment.
- Conclusions from the analysis of data processing performance.
- Conclusions regarding service content and usage.
- Conclusions regarding users and roles.
- Review of tenant setup compliance.
- Recommendations for further action and optimization.
HOW DO WE AUDIT
POWER BI ENVIRONMENT?
- Gathering customer requirements and expectations
- Interviewing users and system administrators.
- Obtaining access to all audited environments. Preferred use of Service Principal.
- Collection of data from the tenata logs of the Power BI service.
- Collect information about the Power BI service catalog – workspaces, semantic models, reports, etc.
- Gather information about actions and activities in the Power BI service.
- Gather information about Power BI tenant(s) settings.
- Taking information about the users using the service.
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Data processing performance:
- Identify bottlenecks and performance issues when refreshing models and data flows.
- Monitoring peak load and component activity.
- Assessing the utilization and scaling of the Power BI infrastructure.
- Configuration and load of Power BI gateways.
- Catalog of Power BI service objects.
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Content of workspaces:
- Popularity of reports and identification of most frequently displayed items.
- Analysis of active use of objects.
- Level of Power BI adoption in the organization.
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Users and roles:
- Role compliance with security policies and data access.
- Audit of object sharing and security.
- Audit of tenant settings.
- Compliance of tenant settings with default settings and best practices.
- Compile a list of observations about the analyzed environment and identify a list of recommended changes to optimize the use of the Power BI service and data security.
- Evaluate the potential effects of implementing the changes from the perspective of performance and compliance with best practices in the context of the defined measure of success.
- Summary of the results of the audit of the Power BI environment.
- Conclusions from the analysis of data processing performance.
- Conclusions regarding service content and usage.
- Conclusions regarding users and roles.
- Review of tenant setup compliance.
- Recommendations for further action and optimization.
WHY SUMM- IT ?
We work based on a proprietary and proven program
The program enables us to identify bottlenecks, both in terms of data security and report performance. We provide our customers with best practices and guidance on configuration and security. Importantly, our proprietary program has been developed over 10 years of experience in implementing Microsoft Power BI in companies located around the world.
We are a one-stop shop in the world of data – End toEnd Service
safetyOur services are comprehensive – we offer not only an audit of thePower BI environment, but also the implementation of proposedchanges and subsequent maintenance of reports. Besides, we implement Power BI reports, and summ-it clients canalso order their maintenance and development.summ-it specialists provide report support in a 365/7/24 modelwith guaranteed response time in the SLA.
Experience in cloud implementations confirmed bynumerous certifications
Our specialists are certified for Azure, Microsoft and Oracle, as wellas experience in performing numerous database audits on both on-premise platforms and cloud solutions: Azure, AWS and Google CloudPlatform, as well as Oracle.
Guarantee of safety
We guarantee the highest quality of service and security, as evidenced by our ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 certifications.
