Use case – Enterprise Reporting
Wiiisdom for Power BI Enterprise Reporting
The reports your executives, auditors and regulators depend on cannot be checked by hand. Wiiisdom certifies them continuously, withdraws endorsement the moment a gap appears, and documents every check along the way.
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What it does
Trust your executives can see, and auditors can verify.
Certify enterprise reports and make trust visible
Trust stops being a matter of reputation: it is displayed. Your mission-critical and executive reports carry a dynamic certification stamp, driven by automated testing, attesting to their accuracy, their freshness and their compliance. Power BI endorsement stops being a label someone set once and becomes the output of tests that actually ran. Your executives decide on validated figures, no longer on the word of whoever looked at them last.
Validate the semantic models underneat
A report is only as reliable as the model behind it. Wiiisdom tests semantic models directly through DAX queries, which validates the calculation logic itself rather than only the visual output. Reconciliation runs against the source of truth, so the figure on the slide and the figure in the warehouse are the same figure.
Prove compliance, own the audit
Testing, validation and reconciliation run automatically, and every test case, every result and every promotion feeds a complete audit trail. Wiiisdom enforces your performance and accessibility standards, aligned with your SLAs. On audit day, there is nothing left to reconstruct: it is all already there.
Fix issues before your users are impacted
Tests run continuously and the alert goes out the moment a check fails, before the figure concerned is used to decide anything. Notifications land in Teams or your ticketing system, and incident tickets open automatically: by the time an executive notices the problem, the responsible team is already on it.
Secure data access, and verify it
A correct configuration does not prove the restrictions still hold. Wiiisdom validates row-level security by simulating a given user and reading what the report actually shows them. Confidentiality is verified on the rendering, not on the settings.
Keep Copilot answering from certified ground New
Copilot in Power BI and external LLMs draw on the same reporting your executives read. Without validation of that content, an AI-generated summary of the quarter inherits whatever error is sitting in it, or surfaces a figure its recipient was never entitled to see.
The payoff
From reports people hope are right to reports that carry proof.
Enterprise reporting is the last place where trust should rest on reputation. Wiiisdom replaces manual checking with continuous validation, and the word given with evidence.
- Critical reports are checked by hand, now and then
- Coverage depends on availability, so most reports are never checked at all
- Endorsement is a label set once, and left in place long after it stopped being true
- A wrong figure is discovered when someone senior disputes it
- Audit trails are assembled on request, from screenshots and memory
- Every mission-critical report validated continuously, on a schedule you set
- A visible certification stamp tells each consumer what they can rely on
- Endorsement revoked automatically the moment a report drifts from what was tested
- Row-level security verified by simulating real users
- A timestamped, attributed trail already exists when the auditor asks
“Certifying content indicates to analytics consumers that the content has been endorsed by professional BI developers, differentiating it from content created by self-service analytics users, and establishing trust.”
How to Govern and Scale Existing Self-Service Analytics Initiatives. Georgia O'Callaghan, 7 March 2024.
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