Power BI Harness
Power BI models built right, faster
Design and build Power BI semantic models, measures and reports with our custom-built AI harness. It carries our Power BI best practice and your business rules, so models are consistent, every number is checked against what you report today, and your team can trust what they see.
Not a Generic AI Tool
Any AI assistant can write a DAX measure. Writing the right one, in a model that performs, stays governed and matches the numbers your business already trusts, takes experience. This harness carries how our consultants model Power BI, so AI follows the same standards they do. And it works with most AI subscriptions, so you can usually use the one you already have.
Our modelling standards
Star schemas, naming, relationships and performance rules we apply on every Power BI engagement.
Your glossary and data dictionary
We build a dedicated business glossary and data dictionary for your data, so “revenue” means the same thing in every report and every field is defined.
Proven measure patterns
Tested DAX patterns for time intelligence, budgets and variances, not one off formulas.
Checks at every step
Every new number is compared with your current reports before anyone relies on it.
What the Power BI Harness Does
From lineage to a finished model, the harness works through the same steps our consultants follow, with your sign off along the way.
- 1Lineage
- 2Model design
- 3Sign off
- 4Build
- 5Numbers validation
- 6Hand over
Design the model
Semantic models
Star schema models designed from your lineage and glossary.
Build the measures
Measures and calculations
DAX measures built from proven patterns and documented as they go.
Repoint reports
Move without rebuilding
Existing reports repointed to a new semantic layer, such as Microsoft Fabric.
Explore your data
Quick answers
Data exploration in Fabric and Power BI Desktop for analysis and checks.
What You Get
Faster models, and models your people trust.
Weeks become days
Models and measures that took weeks of hand building are produced in days.
Every number validated
Figures are reconciled with your current reports before you switch.
One set of rules
The same definitions in every model, so reports stop disagreeing.
Documentation you keep
Every model and measure is documented and handed over with the work.
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.
Inside your network
When your data can’t leave your network, the harness can run on a local instance inside it, within your data processing standards.
Works With Our Other Harnesses
The Power BI harness sits between our lineage and Fabric harnesses, so your data and your reports move together.
Data Lineage Harness
Knows what every current measure depends on before a model is rebuilt.
Fabric Harness
Builds the Fabric foundation your Power BI models sit on.
Power BI Consulting
Trusted dashboards and self service analytics on Power BI.
One of our custom-built AI harnesses. See all our AI work.
Power BI Harness: Our Approach
Discover
We map your current reports and their lineage, and agree the business glossary your models will use.
Transform
We design the semantic models with you, build and validate the measures, and repoint or rebuild reports in stages.
Enable
We hand over the documentation and train your report builders through Data & AI Fluency, so they can extend the models safely.
Power BI models your people trust, built in a fraction of the time.
Let’s Connect
Schedule a Call
Book a call with a senior consultant to see how the Power BI harness would work on your reports.