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Power BI, the Way a Microsoft Partner Builds It

Power BI sprawl is real. Duplicate semantic models, stale datasets, DAX nobody can read, and a Premium capacity bill that keeps climbing while adoption stalls. We govern, tune, and redesign Power BI deployments the way a Microsoft Partner should — starting from the semantic model and working outward to the reports your business actually trusts.
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Where Power BI Deployments Go Wrong

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Your Power BI tenant has 300 reports across 40 workspaces. Nobody maintains a register of which is the certified version.
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Two teams build the same dashboard from different datasets. Numbers don’t match at the monthly review.
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A report that used to load in 5 seconds now takes 90. Nobody can say which DAX measure caused it.
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Your Premium capacity bill climbed 40% last year. Usage didn’t.
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A new Power BI developer joins. They take six weeks to understand your model because there’s no documentation and no style guide.
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Where Are You Starting From?

Workspace sprawl — hundreds of reports, no register
Tenant Governance
Reports are slow and DAX performance is a mystery
Performance & DAX Optimisation
Different teams report different numbers from Power BI
Semantic Model Consolidation
Premium capacity cost keeps climbing
Premium Capacity Optimisation
Moving from Power BI Pro to Premium or to Fabric
Power BI to Fabric Migration
Need workspace governance, certifications, and lineage
Power BI Governance Framework
Building the first Power BI deployment properly
Power BI Implementation
Embedding Power BI in our product
Power BI Embedded
What can I help with ?

    What Changes After We Engage

    Six scenarios the buyer can picture.

    One certified dataset per business domain

    Finance has one certified revenue dataset. Every report references it. Arguments about which number is right stop before the review starts.

    DAX that a new developer can read

    A new Power BI developer joins Monday. By Wednesday they've understood the model and made their first measure change through your PR process.

    Reports load in seconds, not minutes

    Your monthly executive report used to take 90 seconds. It now loads in four, because the measures were rewritten and the star schema was respected.

    Premium capacity tracks actual use

    Your F64 capacity usage is reviewed weekly. Idle dataflows get paused. Your bill matches the reports your business actually runs.

    Lineage traces every number

    An auditor asks where the 'active customer' number comes from. You trace it through the semantic model to the warehouse column in under five minutes.

    Workspace permissions are role-based, not manual

    A new regional manager joins. They get access to their country's reports through an Entra group. Nobody clicks 'Share' on thirty reports individually.

    How We Engage

    1

    Power BI tenant audit
    We audit workspaces, reports, datasets, DAX patterns, Premium capacity usage, and governance gaps — scoring each against performance, accuracy, adoption, and cost.

    2

    Semantic-first redesign
    We design and rebuild the semantic model as the single source of truth for each business domain, refactor heavy DAX measures, and apply governance and certification so reports reference the right dataset.

    3

    Handover with conventions and runbooks
    You walk away with documented DAX conventions, Premium capacity runbooks, a certified-dataset registry, and training for your analysts to extend without breaking the model.

    Every Week You Leave Power BI Sprawl Alone, the Cost of Fixing It Goes Up

    Book a Power BI assessment. We’ll audit your tenant, identify the fast wins on performance and cost, and come back with a governance plan your team can run.
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    Tools We Work With

    Power BI Products
    Semantic Modelling & DAX Tools
    Data Sources
    Governance & Security
    Migration Sources (into Power BI)
    Microsoft Partner Stack

    What Clients Say About Working With Exillar

    Excellent work as always by Umair and team. Umair and team continue to provide excellent work product. Highly recommend, responsive and attention to detail. Umair + Exillar team continue to impress and innovate as business needs evolve

    D&K

    D&K | United States

    Thanks for the project. If you are an Executive, you need a PowerBI dashboard. Great working with the team. Many ongoing projects with Umair. Great person to work with.

    Growloup

    Royal Stone | Canada

    These guys are true professionals, they helped me improve the idea of ​​the work I wanted to develop, very kind and prepared. We will definitely do more work together. second work and I’m very statisfied

    willybesmart

    Willybesmart | United States

    The guys were great to work with, very fast to reply and have a deep understanding of PowerBI. This become a learning experience for me as they shared best practices for PowerBI.

    Darcy

    Darcy | United Kingdom

    Thanks for the exceptional work!

    Hans

    Industry MC | United States

    It was a great experience.

    Miguel

    Truespot | United States

    Umair handled my problem timely and efficiently. He is easy to collaborate with and I will be using him again.

    Travis

    United States

    Super good explanation, patience and a good sense of indagatory about the data, sources, etc. The solutions suggested were very safisfactory.

    Raul Rodriguez/F&K

    Chile

    It is always a pleasure to work with Umair and count on his skills to assist us. I highly recommend him. He has excellent communication skills, which makes my life much easier when conveying out needs to a plan, and executing it.

    Alex

    Austria

    Honestly, this has been an outstanding experience from start to finish.The team went far beyond my expectations — not only did they understand a very complex real-world operation, but they were also able to translate it into a functional and well-structured system.

    Latamsa

    Folding Production Control System | Mexico

    Working with Exillar has been amazing. Bhavisha has has gone above and beyond to get us what we need. Very pleased. ~Sherwin

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    Website development | USA

    It is always a pleasure to work with Umair and his team. Rock start service!

    Alex

    United Kingdom

    Industries We've Worked In

    Retail & E-Commerce
    Healthcare
    Finance & Banking
    Real Estate & Construction
    IoT & Technology
    Manufacturing & Industrial

    Retail & E-Commerce

    Customer analytics, inventory forecasting, and analytics engines that reduce churn and increase basket size.

    Healthcare

    Patient data platforms, clinical reporting, and HIPAA-compliant analytics environments for providers and health-tech.

    Finance & Banking

    Real-time transaction analytics, fraud detection, regulatory reporting, and risk dashboards.

    Real Estate & Construction

    Project data consolidation, budget tracking dashboards, and supply chain analytics across multi-site operations.

    IoT & Technology

    High-volume device data ingestion, stream processing, and analytics platforms for connected product companies.

    Manufacturing & Industrial

    Operational analytics, quality control monitoring, and supply chain visibility platforms.

    Got Questions?

    We have Power BI Pro and are looking at Premium or Fabric. What do we actually need?
    Depends on user count, data volumes, workload mix, and whether you need AI/data engineering on the same capacity. Pro works up to a surprising scale. Premium is right when you need larger models, Direct Lake, or paginated reports. Fabric makes sense when you want to consolidate warehouse, lake, and BI. We score against your situation, not ours.
    Almost always. Most of our cost-and-sprawl engagements leave the tenant in place. We certify the right datasets, refactor the heavy DAX, rationalise workspaces, and wire in governance — without moving anything physically. Full migration is a separate engagement when Fabric is the destination.
    Your tenant, through your change process. We use a dev workspace for risky changes and promote through your existing deployment pipeline. No shadow IT. No content that lives only in our environment.
    We set the model, the governance patterns, and the performance conventions — the scaffolding your team doesn’t have time to design from scratch. Your team ships against the standard. Most of our engagements leave the in-house team more productive, not replaced.
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