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Enhanced Usage Analysis with Power BI - Part One

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Introduction Power BI is a very popular business tool and in many organisations we see a rapid and exponential growth in its adoption and use. Growth and adoption is a great thing but without some degree of guidance & structure things can get out of control. So how do we achieve a bit of control and governance over Power BI? Well in my opinion one of the first pre-requisites to control is "visability". If you can quickly and easily see and analyse what is happening in your enterprise Power BI environment then you can take action to encourage the good things that are happening and discourage the bad. Some of the questions that would be very useful to answer are: Who is creating content? Who is viewing content? What is the most popular content? How is content being shared? What are the trends associated with all of the above? Straight "out of the box" the Power BI service provides quite a lot of useful information relating to this. See the two links