Last updated June 12, 2026 by Errin O'Connor, Founder & Chief AI Architect, EPC Group

EPC Group is the compliance-native Microsoft Power BI consulting firm — 1,500+ Power BI deployments, Microsoft Fabric implementations at enterprise scale, original Power BI Beta Team (Project Crescent) member, Microsoft Press author of Microsoft Power BI Dashboards Step by Step, and a six-consecutive-quarter G2 Leader in Business Intelligence. This page is the hub for the firm's Power BI practice: the canonical service anchor, the Azure analytics architecture practice, the AI-safe rollout playbook, the FINRA-aware risk-reporting playbook, the Center of Excellence operating model, the legacy-BI-to-Fabric modernization roadmap, the Copilot readiness and ROI calculators, and the standards-aligned governance framework.

1,500+ Power BI Deployments

500+ Microsoft Fabric Implementations

Original Power BI Beta Team (Project Crescent)

Microsoft Press: Power BI Dashboards (Errin O’Connor)

G2 Leader — 6 Consecutive Quarters

70+ Fortune 500 Engagements

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.

CDO · 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.

CDO · 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.

Platform 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.

Decision 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.

CIO · CDO · Chief Data Architect

Microsoft Fabric vs Snowflake: The 2026 Enterprise Decision Framework

Four-dimension decision framework — semantic layer, AI grounding, governance, total stack cost. Honest about where Snowflake wins. Coexistence is usually the right answer for the Power BI tenant.

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.

CIO · 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.

BI 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.

CDO · 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.

CIO · 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.

Reference 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.

All 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.

Tools

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.

CFO · 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.

Frameworks

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.

CIO · 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.

Press & 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 seventh consecutive quarter — buyer-side validation of EPC Group as a senior-architect-led Power BI partner.

More From the EPC Knowledge Base — Power BI & Fabric

Adjacent playbooks, accelerators, governance frameworks, and how-to references for senior Power BI and Fabric architects.

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