Yep, today it’s reporting. Lately I’m trying to give some shape to the governance of an organization, and well, reports having a unified look it’s a good thing. At the very least for those supposed to be «Tier 1» or «The reports that really matter to top brass people». As with business logic, I’m all in when it’s about centralizing stuff in one place, and report themes are indeed this: a file that stores the default configuration for pretty much any setting of your visual objects, page and so on. However, Power BI Desktop does not really allow you to setup everything in the theme, and the alternatives were either editing a huge json file or using tools that were not quite up to the task until not long ago. This has changed and I’m completely addicted to the theme generator that Mike Carlo has put together in Powerbi.tips. IT’S AWESOME.
Hello! Yes, this is the Esbrina blog, and yes, it’s an article about Power BI Governance! About time! After learning many things with Melissa Coates and Mike Carlo, and having now some experience as a Power BI Admin, it’s time to start writing about the strategy I’m trying to put in place, in case this is useful for other admins out there.
My client is not huge, but is not tiny either around 200 pro licenses and 900 staff plus providers. Crucially it’s spread across 2 different tenants, but both organizations fall under the same CEO and many teams are cross-tenant, so yes, it gets messy.