Credendo: establishing scalable Power BI governance to enable self-service at scale

Power BI

Credendo is a European credit insurance group that is present all over the continent and active in all segments of trade credit and political risk insurance, providing a range of products that cover risks worldwide.

The challenge

Governance

  • Credendo needed a robust governance framework for Power BI to ensure secure, scalable, and efficient use of Power BI across different business units.

Power BI as the standard

  • Introduce Power BI in the organization as the standard reporting tool going forward.

User adoption

  • Business users needed training on best practices, governance rules, and Power BI functionalities.

Our solution

Implementation of a Power BI governance framework, including the journey from workshops to a fully functional Power BI environment.

Provide guidelines about all aspects of our governance framework like security, centre of excellence, performance, monitoring and lifecycle management for Power BI so the organization has clear rules to roll-out Power BI for the entire organization.

Organizing Power BI as self-service tool for all departments by organizing a tailored multi layered training program.

Set-up connection to SAP BW in compliance with SAP

The business value

Faster and more reliable insights by enabling self-service for the business teams.

The use of a scalable and reliable Power BI environment.

Designed the governance model to support future expansion across multiple teams and ensuring all teams followed best practices.

Provided clear guidelines on how to create reports without risking data integrity.Ability to use data from SAP BW.

Governance

Solid goverance structure

+ 200 users

Increased Power BI adoption

50%

Faster reporting