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Microsoft Fabric & Power BI — governance, CI/CD and operational excellence

Decinova structures your Power BI and Fabric environments with professional deployment pipelines, rigorous data governance, and ongoing operational maintenance.

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Our Power BI & Fabric expertise

From reporting tool to enterprise platform

Power BI has evolved dramatically since its beginnings as a self-service visualisation tool. With its integration into Microsoft Fabric, it has become the analytics pillar of Microsoft's unified data platform.

This evolution creates new opportunities but also new challenges. Organisations that deployed Power BI organically now face governance gaps: duplicated datasets, inconsistent security, uncontrolled sprawl of workspaces and reports.

Decinova steps in to structure, professionalise, and maintain these environments. We bring software engineering best practices — CI/CD, version control, automated testing — to the Power BI and Fabric ecosystem.

TMA / MCO

Semantic Models

Dataset, tabular model, and DAX measure maintenance. Refresh time optimisation, relationship management, model documentation.

DAXTabularDirect Lake
TMA / MCO

Rapports & Dashboards

Adaptive report maintenance, new visual creation, rendering performance optimisation, accessibility and mobile.

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DevOps

CI/CD & Deployment

Deployment pipeline setup (Dev → Test → Prod), Git integration, Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions automation.

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Governance

Workspaces & Security

Workspace structuring, RLS (Row-Level Security), certified datasets, naming conventions, access audits.

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CI/CD Power BI

Professional deployment pipelines for your reports and models

In most organisations, Power BI deployment still comes down to clicking "Publish" from Power BI Desktop, straight to production. No versioning, no code review, no testing — and when something breaks, no clean way to roll back.

Decinova implements a professional workflow built on three pillars: the PBIP format (Power BI Project) which makes files versionable in Git, GitHub Actions for automated deployment, and Best Practice Analyzer for systematic quality checks.

The result: every change goes through a pull request, is peer-reviewed, is automatically tested (Best Practice Analyzer for DAX rules, data model checks), and deployed through a controlled pipeline.

Power BI deployment becomes as rigorous as software deployment. Code reviews, automated tests, rollback — DevOps practices applied to the BI world.

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// Workflow CI/CD Power BI

1. develop
  → Power BI Desktop (format PBIP)
  → commit to feature/branch

2. pull request
  → code review
  → BPA rules check ✓ 0 violations
  → PBI Inspector ✓ passed

3. merge → main
  → Fabric Git sync → Dev workspace

4. deployment pipeline
  → DevTest ✓ validated
  → TestProd ✓ deployed

// Rollback available via Git revert

Governance

Structuring Power BI to scale

When an organisation exceeds 20-30 Power BI reports, governance problems inevitably appear: duplicated datasets, inconsistent security rules, orphaned reports, and performance issues that nobody can diagnose.

Decinova implements a governance framework tailored to your organisation. We structure workspaces by business domain, define naming conventions, certify reference datasets, and set up usage monitoring dashboards.

With the arrival of OneLake Security in Fabric, governance becomes even more centralised: security rules are defined once at the data level and propagate automatically to all consumption layers.

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Workspace structuring

Architecture by business domain, Dev/Test/Prod separation, naming conventions, workspace documentation.

Security

RLS & Access

Dynamic Row-Level Security configuration, access auditing, Entra ID integration, OneLake Security (Fabric).

Quality

Certified datasets

Identification of reference datasets, certification, promotion. One dataset = one source of truth per domain.

Monitoring

Usage & Performance

Usage dashboards (reports viewed, by whom, frequency), refresh time monitoring, performance alerts.

Microsoft Fabric · Unified platform

Beyond Power BI: Fabric workloads

Fabric unifies Microsoft data services into a SaaS platform. Power BI is its analytics pillar, but the real power lies in the convergence of storage (OneLake), compute (Spark, SQL), real-time analytics, and AI.

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Power BI

Reporting, semantic models, DAX, paginated reports. The analytics core — and our historical expertise.

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Data Factory

Ingestion pipelines, Dataflow Gen2, orchestration. The cloud successor to ADF and SSIS.

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Data Engineering

Spark Notebooks, Lakehouses, large-scale processing. Data engineering within Fabric.

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Data Warehouse

Native SQL data warehouse in Fabric. T-SQL queries, views, procedures — no infrastructure.

Real-Time Intelligence

Real-time ingestion, KQL, live dashboards. For IoT, monitoring, and alerting use cases.

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OneLake & Governance

Unified data lake, centralised security (OneLake Security), mirroring, shortcuts. La fondation de Fabric.

Power BI Premium was retired in January 2025. All Premium customers are migrating to Fabric capacities. If you haven't planned this transition yet, it's time to act.

Migration scenarios

From your current stack to Fabric & Power BI

Whether you're coming from SAP BO, SSIS, or a heterogeneous BI stack, we have the tools and experience to structure your migration to Fabric and Power BI.

Every migration starts with an audit (Pillar 01) that maps your existing estate. We identify what can be migrated automatically, what requires manual rework, and what should be decommissioned.

The approach is always progressive: wave-based migration, parallel run during transition, and controlled cutover. Production never stops.

Discuss your migration →

Migration paths to Fabric & Power BI
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Our publications on Power BI & Fabric

CI/CD

Power BI CI/CD: setting up a professional deployment pipeline with GitHub

PBIP format, Git integration, Best Practice Analyzer, Deployment Pipelines — the complete guide to industrialising your deployments.

Governance

Power BI governance in the enterprise: certified datasets, RLS and pipelines

How to structure your workspaces, certify your datasets, and implement RLS to scale Power BI across the enterprise.

Fabric

Microsoft Fabric: what does it concretely change for BI teams?

OneLake, Dataflow Gen2, Direct Lake, AI agents — what Fabric brings beyond Power BI and how to prepare.

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