PBIMCR - The Very Group

External Sharing and Data Labs
The Very Group BI Team implemented Power BI as their enterprise reporting tool in 2019 and have steadily grown adoption since then, constantly looking for ways to evolve the operating model to offer a better service to the business. Two recent innovations that show great potential are external sharing (allowing third parties to access Power BI reports in a controlled way) and ‘data labs’ (large, granular data models that can be used to build multiple reports). We’d like to give an overview of these innovations and how we have implemented them from a technical, governance, and people point of view.
Dan Burgon leads the BI Development Team at The Very Group. He has been with The Very Group for five years, and has worked in a variety of roles and industries during his career.
Dan Lloyd is a Senior BI Developer at The Very Group. He is approaching the end of his 2nd year at The Very Group and has worked extensively on Trading data across a number of large scale report developments. He has been utilising Power BI for the creation of complex reports and interactive tools for around 4 years, with prior expertise in Process Automation (VBA and Power Automate) as well as Excel based reporting and validation tools across Finance and Procurement functions.
Paul Ewin is a Senior BI Developer at The Very Group. He has been with the Very Group for over 20 years and has worked across various departments over that time. He has worked on Mathematical models to predict demand, built data models within Teradata as well as report building both in Excel and more recently Power BI.