Measures do not agree
Clarify grain, definitions, filters, exclusions and ownership before rebuilding the visual layer.
Trusted measures. Useful reports. A system your team can run.
Power BI Consulting Australia
Turn reporting questions into governed measures, usable Power BI reports and a delivery model your team can support after go-live.
When Power BI needs more than another dashboard
Reporting becomes difficult when teams disagree about measures, source data cannot support the claim, refreshes fail without an owner or a report is technically correct but hard to use. We work back from the decision, define the meaning of each measure and build the reporting and controls around it.
When we can help
Reporting, modelling and operation
Reports are slow or unreliable
Separate source, model, DAX, visual, refresh and capacity symptoms, then test the measured cause.
Governance has become informal
Make workspace roles, access, release paths, endorsement, lineage and change ownership explicit.
A report needs a safe rebuild
Reconcile the new result against source records and existing reports before changing the business path.
What we deliver
From the reporting question to models, apps and agents that run on it
Reporting and decision discovery
Define the management questions, measures, dimensions, exceptions and acceptance criteria the reporting must support.
Semantic models and reusable measures
Design grain, relationships and governed calculations so reports use the same business meaning.
Power BI report delivery
Build clear report journeys that connect headlines to the records and exceptions behind them.
Performance and refresh diagnosis
Reproduce the problem, identify its largest contributor and retest timing without changing the meaning of the result.
Governance and release design
Set out ownership, access, workspace structure, deployment, monitoring and the route for changing governed measures.
Validation and handover
Check totals, filters, access and refresh behaviour, then provide documentation and a supportable operating path.
Complex model design and consolidation
Design large and composite semantic models, and consolidate overlapping datasets into fewer governed models with one set of measures.
Custom visuals and custom connectors
Build a custom visual when the core visuals cannot show the decision, and a custom Power Query connector for a source without a built-in one.
Code-first data apps with Rayfin
Use the Rayfin CLI and SDK to build web data apps on Fabric that read the governed semantic model, for workflows a report page cannot serve.
Ontology with Fabric IQ
Define business entities and relationships once in a Fabric IQ ontology, starting from existing semantic models, so people and AI agents use the same meaning. The ontology item is in preview.
Custom agents in Copilot
Build Copilot Studio agents and Fabric data agents that answer from the governed model and respect its permissions.
Relevant work
Evidence from delivered engagements
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Quality management and control reporting
More than 150 spreadsheets became one shared quality database, with Power BI supporting analysis of quality, cost and productivity.
Superannuation reporting and automation
Power BI reporting, process automation and data-pipeline work supporting major Australian superannuation funds.
Energy platform reporting and governance
A multi-domain platform programme including governed Power BI reporting and models, administration and clear reporting ownership.
Interactive Power BI sample reports
See all 20 live dashboards Two of our Power BI reports
Two interactive sample reports, built the way we build for clients. Explore one here or full screen; the full catalogue of twenty live dashboards is on the Demos page.
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Related specialist work
Use the narrower service when it fits
Process → Architecture → Delivery
Our methodology
- 01DiscoverAgree the outcome, the decisions and the requirements.
- 02Current stateMap how the work and data flow today, with evidence.
- 03Root causesFind what drives the delay, rework or disagreeing numbers.
- 04ApproachAgree the target design, scope and measures of success.
- 05BuildBuild the data model and reports on the agreed design.
- 06OptimiseTest at real volumes; tune speed, cost and usability.
- 07ProductioniseRelease with managed deployment, monitoring and support.
- 08GovernSet owners, access and controls so it keeps working.
Process redesignAs-is vs to-be: changing a governed measure To-be: a change request names the decision affected, the definition owner rules, the change is reconciled against the old result and released through the pipeline with a change note.
Steps in this diagram
Lanes: Report user, Definition owner, BI developer, Release (pipeline).
- Number questioned
- Raise change request (decision affected)
- Rule on definition
- Change?
- Explain definition in report
- Update DAX in Git branch
- Reconcile old vs new result
- Deploy test → prod
- Publish change note
- One agreed number
Reference architectureGoverned Power BI release path Semantic models and reports live in Git as PBIP/TMDL. Changes move dev → test → prod through deployment pipelines, with an approval gate and automated checks (Best Practice Analyzer, parity query).
Components in this design
- Power BI Desktop (PBIP + TMDL)
- Azure DevOps Git (PR + review)
- Build checks (BPA rules, DAX parity)
- Dev workspace (Git-integrated)
- Test workspace (UAT with users)
- Prod workspace (certified items)
- Power BI app (audiences)
- Subscriptions (PDF board pack)
- Scanner + Purview (lineage, endorsement)
- Governance report (sample report on this page)
Delivery: interactive Power BI sample reportPower BI Estate Governance Make governance visible: which models are certified, which measures have conflicting definitions, who owns what, and which reports are used. Delivered with named owners, role-based access, release pipelines and a controlled way to change governed measures.
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Next step
Do the measures disagree, or do reports take too long?
Tell us what is happening. We agree priorities and scope before proposing any work.