Infrabel: driving organization-wide Power BI adoption through governance and enablement

Power BI

Power Automate

SAP HANA

SAP SPRINT

SAP Fiori

Infrabel is a Belgian government-owned public limited company. It builds, owns, maintains and upgrades the Belgian railway network, makes its capacity available to railway companies, and handles train traffic control. It was established on January, 1 2005 from the split of the once unitary SNCB/NMBS. As of 2020, Infrabel employs over 11.000 people.

The challenge

Infrabel embraces a wide-ranging data architecture, which results in the availability of various data sources: SAS, SAP HANA, SAP BW, MS SQLS, Azure data lake storage and so on.

Infrabel wanted to make relevant data accessible to support decision making & to shift gears towards an innovative & robust reporting environment.

This transition should lead to a sustainable environment which embraces self-service data analysis & interpretation, paving the way towards process optimalisation & automation.

Our solution

Infrabel opted for Power BI in its journey towards enabling data analysis for everyone. Lytix has proved to be a reliable partner when it comes down to Power BI evangelization. The following approach was followed:

  • Establish a Power BI Center of Excellence (CoE)
  • Create support channels
  • Set up a Power BI Information Portal
  • Build a community
  • Use service management tools
  • Set up monitoring
  • Automate frequently recurring processes
  • Generate exposure

The business value

  • Reliable, up-to-date data for faster, fact-based decision making
  • A scalable reporting environment with strong governance and best practices
  • Higher user adoption through training, support, and self-service analytics
  • Increased efficiency thanks to automation and reduced response times
  • Improved collaboration and consistency via a central information portal
  • Strategic advantage by enabling innovation and process optimization