Knowledge sharing and awareness
In the previous section, we talked about the importance of being pro-active about performance management. Since there are many areas to cover, some being quite technical, we need to have the right level of complexity and relevance for the audience. We will introduce these groups in general then summarize with role-specific advice.
Helping self-service users
One of Power BI's greatest strengths is its approachability and ease of use for non-technical users or analysts who are not professional BI developers. The drawback of this is that lack of knowledge can lead to poorly optimized solutions. We recommend using the guidance in later chapters to create the following:
- Report Design Guide – This will incorporate style, theme, and design choices to avoid. These can even be supplied as a Power BI template file (
.pbit). - Data Modeling/Loading Guide – This will have common guidance such as the basics of dimensional modeling...
