Running since 2007 and now with over 3,000 attendees, SQL Bits has become the largest Data Platform conference in the world, running annually and featuring 200 world class speakers, 300+ hours of content, and the best networking opportunities in the industry. It features the world’s best experts in the Microsoft data space presenting and attending from across the world.
Rishi presented one of the new 100 minute sessions covering how to Govern and manage a large-scale Fabric/Power BI estate, specifically:
• Defining objectives for Governance, based on the Power BI adoption roadmap and data mesh/Modern Analytics Governance At Scale (MAGS) principles.
• Considering the scope of workspaces and artefacts in your tenant, and how to actively manage/monitor this using admin insights/REST APIs to capture inventory and activity logs.
• Review of tenant admin settings – how you decide what these should be (aligned to a set of corporate security principles/requirements) and how you can manage the groups of individuals who have access to particular settings/functionality through an approval-based workflow.
• Understanding the components and management of a “Managed workspace” architecture (where your Enterprise BI/Data artefacts are hosted, typically on Power BI Premium per Capacity) including AAD group-based access-control, Application Lifecycle Management, centralised data management (e.g. Dataflows/Datamarts/Shared Datasets) and performance management.
• Roles and Responsibilities of teams/individuals across the organisation, including a Centre of Excellence (focused on enablement) and developer teams.
• How to set up ongoing monitoring and support for Power BI/Fabric, including development of an Estate monitoring solution, using the Premium Capacity Metrics app and enabling your support/COE teams to effectively deal with issues.
The content of this session is covered in the Fabric and Power BI Governance e-learning course