Microsoft Power BI’s ease of use can lead to a proliferation of use across business units in an organization, eventually leading to dashboard usage that is difficult to track, making governance challenging to achieve.

Organizations can gain insights into dashboard usage and establish corporate governance policies with Microsoft Power BI Usage Insights (PBIUI). PBIUI provides organizations with a Microsoft Power BI dashboard that tracks usage analytics from other dashboards in an organization’s IT environment. This allows PBIUI users to gain insights into dashboard usage rates, allowing for use cases like identifying those which may be over and underutilized, abandoned, or even POCs that never made it to production.

Gaining insights into Microsoft Power BI dashboard usage rates also enables organizations to unlock other use cases like:

· Prioritizing support for vital and highly used dashboards

· Identifying dashboards that may have errors or need updates

· Optimizing IT spend by eliminating unused dashboards and the IT resources they’re running on