Data Lineage Harness
Know where every number comes from
Trace every measure in your Qlik or Power BI estate back to its source tables and fields, and document it automatically. Our custom-built AI harness does in hours what used to take a week or more for a single environment, so migrations, audits and AI projects start from facts.
Not a Generic AI Tool
Lineage tools can draw boxes and arrows. What they can’t do is read a Qlik script or a DAX measure the way an experienced consultant does, and explain what the business logic actually means. This harness carries how our consultants trace and document data, built up over years of migrations and audits. And it works with most AI subscriptions, so you can usually use the one you already have.
How we trace
Our method for following a number through expressions, scripts, views and joins back to the field it comes from.
A glossary and data dictionary
We build a dedicated business glossary and data dictionary: each measure is linked to its business meaning and each field to its definition, so the documentation makes sense to finance and operations, not only to developers.
Direct API connections
Tested connections to Qlik and Power BI that read your apps and models as they are, without changing them.
Consultant checks
Unusual logic, duplicates and conflicting definitions are flagged for a consultant to review.
What the Data Lineage Harness Does
The harness reads your environment, stores what it finds in a lineage vault, and produces documentation your team and ours can use straight away.
Trace every measure
End to end
Every measure and expression is traced back to its source tables and fields.
Document it
Workbooks and diagrams
Workbooks and diagrams are generated from the vault, ready to share.
Spot the conflicts
One version of each number
Measures with the same name but different logic are found before they cause arguments.
Feed the next step
Design ready
The lineage becomes the starting point for a new design on Fabric or Qlik.
What You Get
Lineage used to be the slow, manual part of every migration and audit. Now it is the fast part.
Hours, not weeks
Lineage that took a week or more for a single environment is produced in hours.
Fewer surprises
You see every dependency before you change or move anything.
One shared language
Business and technical teams work from the same definitions.
Documentation you keep
The vault, workbooks and diagrams are handed over and stay useful long after the work is done.
Safe on Your Data
Speed never comes at the cost of control. The same strict rules apply on every engagement.
Only with your permission
The harness is never connected to your environment unless you have agreed to it.
Your access rules
It works under the consultant’s own access rights, so it can only see and do what that person is already allowed to.
Reviewed before production
Nothing reaches production until a consultant has reviewed it, and it can run read only when you only need analysis.
Read only
Lineage only needs to read your environment, so the harness runs read only and changes nothing.
Works With Our Other Harnesses
Lineage is the first step for most of our harness work, so it connects to all of them.
Fabric Harness
Moving to Microsoft Fabric? The lineage becomes the starting point for your medallion design.
Power BI Harness
Rebuild or repoint Power BI models knowing exactly what every measure depends on.
Qlik Cloud and Qlik On-Premise Harnesses
Our Qlik harnesses work best with lineage and a glossary behind them.
One of our custom-built AI harnesses. See all our AI work.
Data Lineage Harness: Our Approach
Discover
We agree which apps and models to trace, connect the harness with your permission, and run it read only.
Transform
We review what it finds with your team, resolve conflicting definitions and agree one business glossary.
Enable
We hand over the lineage vault, workbooks and diagrams, so your team can keep them current as things change.
Every number traced, explained and documented.
Let’s Connect
Schedule a Call
Book a call with a senior consultant to see what the Data Lineage harness would find in your environment.