Customer-First Analytics: Power BI Dashboard for Impact
Proposed session for SQLBits 2026TL; DR
Build dashboards that matter. Learn a customer-first approach to Power BI, from defining KPIs and empathetic design to gathering feedback and driving adoption, ensuring your reports become essential decision-making tools.
Session Details
Building a dashboard is easy. Building one that truly serves your customer — that's where the real work (and value) begins.
In this session, we’ll walk through how to build a Power BI dashboard from scratch with a customer-first mindset. From defining the right problem to designing with empathy, this session will cover:
-Understanding your audience’s pain points and priorities
-Translating business questions into measurable KPIs
-Structuring your data model for flexibility and performance
-Designing intuitive visuals and layout for usability
-Gathering feedback and driving dashboard adoption
If you are looking to level up your Power BI game, you’ll leave with practical tools, techniques, and frameworks to turn your dashboards into decision-driving assets.
In this session, we’ll walk through how to build a Power BI dashboard from scratch with a customer-first mindset. From defining the right problem to designing with empathy, this session will cover:
-Understanding your audience’s pain points and priorities
-Translating business questions into measurable KPIs
-Structuring your data model for flexibility and performance
-Designing intuitive visuals and layout for usability
-Gathering feedback and driving dashboard adoption
If you are looking to level up your Power BI game, you’ll leave with practical tools, techniques, and frameworks to turn your dashboards into decision-driving assets.
3 things you'll get out of this session
Design Thinking: A framework to identify stakeholder pain points and translate them into relevant KPIs.
Functional Architecture: The ability to build flexible data models and intuitive layouts that prioritize usability.
Adoption Strategies: Proven techniques for gathering user feedback and ensuring your dashboard becomes a daily essential.
Speakers
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