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PRACTICE · 04

Analytics & BI Modernization.

Self-service analytics that actually serves itself. Reconcile KPI definitions across business units, retire shadow Excel, and put Power BI / Tableau / Looker on a single, governed semantic spine.

— The boring practice that quietly unblocks every AI ambition.

§ 01WHAT GOES WRONG

Three patterns we see every time.

PATTERN · 01

The KPI war

Sales has one revenue number, finance has another, the CEO dashboard has a third. Three ways to be right; three reasons to argue. We end the war by putting one definition in the registry and pointing every consumer at it.

  • KPI registry, owner-per-metric
  • Definition history
  • Conflict adjudication process
PATTERN · 02

The shadow stack

The "real numbers" live in someone's Excel on a personal OneDrive. The dashboards everyone presents from. Politely retire it — by making the governed alternative actually faster than the shadow stack.

  • Shadow-stack inventory
  • Migration path with parity
  • Excel-grade self-service
PATTERN · 03

The dashboard graveyard

Hundreds of dashboards. A handful actively used. The rest, slowly drifting from reality. Decommission with discipline; rebuild a small set on the registry.

  • Usage analytics on the BI estate
  • Sunset & deprecation cadence
  • Top-30 rebuild on registry
§ 02TOOL-AGNOSTIC

Whichever BI you have, one spine.

We don't replatform your BI tool. We sit underneath it.

Power BI
Direct-Lake on Fabric, semantic-model first
Tableau
Published data sources backed by the registry
Looker
LookML generated from the FlexiContext layer
Notebooks
Same KPIs in pandas / Spark — no redefinition
§ 03WHAT WE SHIP

A self-service estate that actually serves.

01

KPI registry — populated

Top 50–100 KPIs defined, owned, documented, version-controlled. Used by every dashboard, notebook, and model.

02

Top-30 rebuilt dashboards

The ones the leadership team actually opens. Rebuilt on the registry, certified, designed for decision rather than decoration.

03

Self-service enablement

Templates, training, office hours. Power-user enablement that doesn't require a Flexilytics seat at every meeting.

04

BI estate audit + sunset map

What's used, what's not, what's retired by when. The deprecation calendar your team owns.

End the KPI war this quarter.

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