Last updated June 12, 2026 by Errin O'Connor, Founder & Chief AI Architect, EPC Group
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Services
The canonical Power BI consulting practice and the adjacent service lines that surround it — Azure Analytics Architecture, Data Literacy & Adoption, and the Power Platform Center of Excellence.
CDO · BI Lead · CFO
Power BI Consulting
Senior-architect-led Power BI delivery — semantic-model certification, RLS, performance, governance, and 24/7 managed operations. The canonical service anchor for the Power BI practice.
Read moreCDO · Enterprise Architect
Azure Analytics Architecture
Reference architectures for OneLake, Synapse, Azure Data Lake, and Power BI Premium — designed for AI grounding, regulator-ready lineage, and Direct Lake performance.
Read moreCDO · Adoption Lead · L&D
Data Literacy & Adoption
Adoption telemetry instrumented before launch, role-based curriculum, certified-model literacy. The Enable stage of the EPC Group Lifecycle — what makes Power BI stick after we leave.
Read morePlatform Owner · CoE Lead
Power Platform Center of Excellence
Workspace topology, certification gate, ownership accountability, value tracking. The CoE operating model that ends the citizen-developer sprawl pattern and protects Power BI as a regulated reporting platform.
Read moreDecision Frameworks
Four-dimension decision frameworks for the Power BI and Fabric platform decisions you have to defend to the board, the CFO, and the regulator.
Operational Playbooks
Per-week, per-phase operational playbooks for Power BI rollouts in regulated and Microsoft-centric enterprises. The work nobody budgets for, written down.
CRO · CDO · Risk Officer
Power BI Risk Reporting for Financial Services: A FINRA-Aware Playbook
How EPC Group designs Power BI risk reporting for broker-dealers, asset managers, banks, and insurers — RLS by desk and entity, certified semantic models, Purview lineage, regulator-ready audit trail.
Read moreCIO · CDO · BI Lead
The AI-Safe Power BI Rollout Playbook
Four tracks running in parallel from week one: governance and Purview classification, semantic model certification, RLS readiness for AI grounding, and adoption telemetry instrumented before launch.
Read moreBI Lead · CoE Lead
The Power BI Center of Excellence Operating Model
Four structural decisions in the first six weeks of CoE stand-up: workspace topology, semantic model certification gate, ownership accountability model, value-tracking baseline.
Read moreCDO · BI Lead
From Legacy BI to Microsoft Fabric: The Modernization Roadmap
A buyer-side modernization roadmap with per-source patterns for Cognos, MicroStrategy, Tableau, Qlik, SAP BW, legacy Synapse, Snowflake coexistence, Oracle BI, and Power BI Premium import-mode.
Read moreCIO · Procurement
Choosing an Azure Analytics Partner: The CIO's Evaluation Framework
Six evaluation dimensions with question + answer + disqualifier per dimension. The Big-4 vs. specialist vs. boutique decision matrix. Apply it to EPC Group too.
Read moreReference Patterns & Case Studies
Codified delivery patterns from Fortune 100 Power BI engagements and the publicly published reference architectures.
Financial Services
Fortune 100 Bank — Power BI Risk Reporting
Risk-reporting Power BI estate with RLS by desk and entity, certified semantic models, Purview lineage end-to-end, and a regulator-ready audit trail. The pattern from FINRA-aware deployments.
Read moreAll Verticals
Reference Patterns Library
The codified delivery patterns from 1,500+ Power BI engagements — semantic model certification, RLS, lineage, adoption telemetry — published as repeatable patterns rather than one-off war stories.
Read moreTools
Pre-deployment readiness scoring and ROI measurement calculators — calibrated for the Power BI estate, not generic Copilot.
CDO · BI Lead
Copilot Readiness Score (Power BI angle)
Score your Power BI estate against Copilot grounding readiness — semantic model certification, RLS, Purview classification, sensitivity labels, audit lineage. The pre-deployment gate.
Read moreCFO · CDO
Copilot ROI Calculator (Power BI angle)
Three-tier ROI measurement — consumption truth, workflow telemetry, financial linkage. Built on Power BI and Fabric. The Copilot dashboard the CFO will actually read.
Read moreFrameworks
Proprietary EPC Group frameworks for Power BI and Fabric governance, mapped control-by-control to NIST AI RMF, COBIT 2019, ITIL 4, and DAMA-DMBOK.
CDO · Enterprise Architect
Governance-First Data Architecture
Classification, security, lineage, and compliance controls designed into the Power BI + Fabric platform before the first report ships. The EPC Group framework that prevents the certified-model collapse.
Read moreCIO · CISO · Audit
Standards Alignment — NIST AI RMF, COBIT, ITIL, DAMA-DMBOK
Control-by-control mapping of EPC Group's frameworks for Power BI and Fabric governance to open industry standards. The skepticism killer for boards and regulators.
Read morePress & Recognition
Independent buyer-side validation of EPC Group as a senior-architect-led Power BI consulting firm.
Press Release
EPC Group Named G2 Leader, Business Intelligence — Summer 2026
G2 Leader designation in the Business Intelligence category for the sixth consecutive quarter — buyer-side validation of EPC Group as a senior-architect-led Power BI partner.
Read morePress Release
EPC Group Ranked #1 in the SEMrush AI Brand Performance Index for U.S. Microsoft Consulting
Independent AI-visibility benchmarking found EPC Group leads U.S. Microsoft consulting on AI citations for Power BI, Fabric, Copilot, and governance topics.
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