Microsoft Power BI Services with Ascent Technology

Modernise your reporting with enterprise Power BI services from Ascent Technology. We deliver governance, secure data models, and trusted insights at scale.

Whether you need to optimise your existing Power BI estate or transition from legacy BI tools, we ensure your environment is designed, governed, and supported for long-term success.

At a Glance: Why Organisations Choose Power BI with Ascent

• Build a modern, scalable BI environment aligned to Azure and Microsoft Fabric
• Deliver consistent, trusted insights through governed data models and enterprise reporting
• Empower business teams with self-service analytics – without compromising security or compliance
• Reduce complexity and cost by standardising BI on Microsoft’s cloud-first analytics platform
• Unlock faster, more accurate decision-making across the organisation

What is Microsoft Power BI?

Microsoft Power BI is a unified business intelligence platform that enables organisations to connect to data, build reliable models, and create interactive dashboards and reports. It combines self-service flexibility with enterprise-grade governance, security, and scalability.

Power BI integrates seamlessly with Azure, Microsoft 365, SQL Server, and Microsoft Fabric – providing a consistent analytics layer across your data estate and supporting both departmental and organisation-wide reporting.

Why Organisations Are Standardising on Power BI

Businesses are moving to Power BI to unify reporting, reduce BI complexity, and deliver trusted insights across the organisation. With native integration across Azure, Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Fabric, Power BI provides a single analytics platform that supports both self-service and enterprise reporting.

Key reasons organisations choose Power BI:

• Unified analytics platform – one environment for dashboards, reports, data models, and collaboration
• Seamless Microsoft integration – works natively with Azure SQL, SQL Server, Excel, Teams, and Fabric
• Enterprise-ready governance – workspace roles, deployment pipelines, sensitivity labels, and RLS
• Improved decision-making – real-time insights across operations, finance, and leadership teams
• Lower total cost of ownership – replace fragmented BI tools with a single Microsoft-standardised platform
• Empowered business users – governed self-service capabilities without compromising security or compliance

Why Now Is the Time for Power BI

Organisations are under increasing pressure to deliver faster, more accurate insights while retiring outdated BI tools and consolidating analytics platforms. Power BI offers a modern, cloud-aligned approach that supports both current needs and future growth.

With Microsoft’s shift toward Fabric-based capacities and the continued evolution of the Power BI ecosystem, businesses are adopting Power BI now to modernise their reporting landscape, strengthen governance, and streamline licensing and platform costs.

Why Power BI matters today:

• Legacy BI limitations – Traditional reporting platforms can’t meet modern performance, sharing, and governance needs.
• Shift toward Fabric – Power BI is tightly integrated with Fabric, enabling organisations to unify analytics on a single platform.
• Licensing evolution – Microsoft’s move from Premium (P SKUs) to Fabric capacities encourages organisations to standardise their BI environment.
• Cloud-first analytics – Power BI provides scalability, security, and performance aligned to Azure and Microsoft 365.
• Rising demand for governed self-service – Organisations must empower users with self-service capabilities while maintaining control and compliance.
• Need for unified, organisation-wide insights – Leadership teams require connected, real-time intelligence across all business functions.

Power BI Use Cases

Power BI supports a wide range of analytics scenarios across the organisation, from operational dashboards to executive reporting. Its flexibility, integration with Microsoft services, and enterprise-grade governance make it suitable for both departmental and enterprise-wide insight delivery.

Common Power BI Use Cases:

• Executive and Board Reporting – consolidated scorecards, strategic KPIs, and organisation-wide metrics presented through trusted, governed dashboards
• Financial and Operational Performance – profitability analysis, cost tracking, forecasting, and real-time operational monitoring
• Sales, Marketing and Customer Insight – pipeline visibility, campaign performance, customer segmentation, churn analysis, and revenue attribution
• Supply Chain and Logistics – inventory optimisation, procurement visibility, distribution performance, and IoT-enabled operational insights
• People and HR Analytics – workforce trends, performance management, recruitment tracking, and resource planning
• Self-Service Analytics – curated semantic models that empower business users to explore data, build reports, and answer questions independently – supported by proper governance and controls

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

How Ascent Technology Helps You Succeed with Power BI

Ascent Technology provides end-to-end Power BI services that help organisations modernise their reporting landscape, strengthen governance, and deliver trusted insights at scale.

Whether you are starting your Power BI journey or enhancing an existing environment, we ensure your BI platform is designed, implemented, and supported for long-term business value.

How Ascent supports your Power BI environment:

• Power BI Readiness and Roadmap – Assess your current BI landscape, identify gaps, and define a clear roadmap for modernisation and adoption.
• Data Modelling and Report Development – Build high-quality semantic models and dashboards that deliver accurate, consistent insights.
• Power BI Governance and Best Practice Frameworks – Establish workspace structures, standards, deployment pipelines, and lifecycle management.
• Security, RLS and Compliance Configuration – Implement Row-Level Security, sensitivity labels, identity integration, and access controls.
• Integration with Azure, SQL Server and Microsoft Fabric – Align Power BI with your broader data platform and cloud strategy.
• Training, Enablement and Centre of Excellence (CoE) – Empower technical and business teams with the skills and frameworks needed for sustainable adoption.
• Managed Support and Continuous – Ongoing support and performance tuning to keep your environment reliable, secure, and high-performing.

Get Started with Power BI

Power BI is transforming how organisations analyse data, deliver insights, and standardise reporting across the business.

Contact Us today to discover how Ascent Technology can help you design, govern, and optimise Power BI for secure, accurate, and scalable enterprise reporting.

Also See

> Microsoft Fabric Services with Ascent Technology
> Selecting the Right Microsoft CSP for Your Business