Here is Gil’s recorded session in Power BI & Fabric Summit 2025
Here is the summary of the presentation:
At the recent Power BI Summit 2025, Gil Raviv, founder of DataChant Consulting and BI Pixie, highlighted critical insights and practical solutions for measuring the true value of Power BI dashboards. As BI professionals, we often overlook the importance of treating our dashboards as products, which can lead to significant challenges in adoption, feedback, and ROI measurement.
Challenges in the BI Landscape
Gil identified common pain points that many BI leaders face today:
- Low adoption rates
- Limited user feedback
- Difficulty optimizing dashboards
- Challenges in prioritizing BI tasks
- High operational costs
- Difficulty convincing stakeholders for future investments
- Measuring ROI remains elusive
Why Measuring Effectiveness Matters
Organizations typically build dashboards to monitor business effectiveness, yet ironically fail to measure the dashboards’ own effectiveness. This is comparable to the “cobbler walking barefoot”—we create tools to measure everything but our own success.
Proven ROI of Analytics
Research underscores the value of analytics:
- Nucleus Research: Analytics technology yields a $6.20 return for every dollar spent, increasing revenue by 10%.
- Forrester (Power BI): Three-year Power BI investments returned $4.66 per dollar (366% ROI).
- Forrester (Fabric): Microsoft Fabric investments provided a return of $4.79 per dollar spent (379% ROI).
Beyond Basic Usage Metrics
While standard Power BI metrics (like page views and admin monitoring) offer valuable insights into usage, they don’t adequately capture user engagement, satisfaction, or the interaction quality of end-users with the dashboards.
Enter BI Pixie
In the session Gil introduced BI Pixie, a comprehensive solution specifically designed to bridge these gaps. BI Pixie empowers teams to:
- Measure user engagement effectively to understand detailed user interactions with dashboard visuals and filters.
- Assess user adoption, attrition and satisfaction.
- Analyze dashboard performance and design impact, allowing organizations to optimize their analytic products strategically.
BI Pixie consists of easily deployable components including automation tools, interactive dashboards, web services, and secure Azure-based storage—all keeping usage data within your organization’s Azure tenant.
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