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EPC Group has now been named a G2 Leader for Business Intelligence Consulting across six consecutive quarterly reports, sustaining the designation through one of the most active periods of change on the Microsoft analytics platform — including the general availability of Microsoft Fabric, the retirement timeline for Dataflow Gen1, the rollout of Copilot for Power BI, and the rapid emergence of multi-model AI integration inside enterprise analytics environments.
“Being named a G2 Leader for the sixth consecutive quarter is something we take seriously. It reflects the depth of work we do every day across Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, data warehousing, lakehouse architecture, and the multi-AI layer enterprises now expect on top of every dashboard.”
A Full-Stack BI and Data Practice
EPC Group's continued Leader recognition reflects a Business Intelligence and data practice that spans the modern Microsoft data platform end to end. The firm's Power BI Consulting practice delivers enterprise dashboarding, semantic model design, DAX optimization, row-level and object-level security, deployment pipelines, Power BI Center of Excellence frameworks, and Copilot for Power BI integration.
EPC Group is led by a founding member of the Microsoft Power BI Beta Team. We have delivered Power BI environments to various organizations, including:
- Fortune 500 companies
- Federal agencies
- Healthcare providers
- Financial services
- Government entities
- Manufacturing firms
- Energy companies
- Educational institutions
- Retail businesses
- Global enterprises
The firm's Microsoft Fabric consulting practice covers OneLake architecture, lakehouse and warehouse design, Direct Lake configuration, Dataflow Gen2 migration from retiring Gen1 dataflows, capacity governance, workspace policy, deployment pipelines, and semantic model certification. EPC Group's data warehousing work extends from Microsoft Fabric lakehouses and warehouses to Azure SQL, Azure Synapse Analytics, and hybrid environments — engineered for the scale, performance, and governance posture regulated industries require.
Multi-AI Natural Language Brings Power BI Reports to Life
EPC Group's Business Intelligence services provide more than traditional dashboards. We utilize our Multi-Model AI architecture for Power BI and Microsoft Fabric. This architecture improves certified Power BI semantic models by incorporating natural language interfaces.
Business users can now:
- Ask questions about their data in plain English
- Receive answers based on governed enterprise data
- Avoid generic web content or inaccurate information
The architecture combines Microsoft Copilot for Power BI as the native Microsoft layer with additional large language models — including Anthropic Claude, OpenAI ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google Gemini — routed through EPC Group's orchestration layer based on the strength of each model for the task at hand. Summarization, forecasting narrative, anomaly explanation, executive briefings, and conversational drill-down each route to the model best suited to the work, while sensitivity labels, row-level security, and audit lineage are preserved end to end through Microsoft Purview.
Power BI reports now make user interactions easier. Users do not need to know which visual to click or which filter to set.
For instance, a regional sales leader can ask:
- “Why did Q2 margin slip in the Northeast?”
They will receive a governed, source-linked narrative. This narrative includes the relevant visuals displayed inline.
A compliance officer might ask, “Show me every report related to protected health data in the last 30 days.” They will receive a governed lineage view.
The dashboard becomes the floor, not the ceiling.
The orchestration layer applies model selection rules based on the task class. For numerical forecasting, it selects the model with the best grounded-reasoning performance on the customer's evaluation set.
Long-context executive summarization uses the model with the largest context window and the highest factual accuracy for regulated data. For conversational drill-down, we choose the model with the lowest first-token latency that fits the customer's budget.
All routing decisions are recorded through Microsoft Purview for auditing.
EPC Group's practice has benchmarked over 800 AI tools and large language model variants. Our recommendations are evidence-based and not affiliate-driven.
Governed Analytics as the Differentiator
The recognition follows EPC Group's recent launch of the Governed AI on Microsoft Framework — a unified governance methodology connecting Microsoft Purview, Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft Copilot, and Microsoft Defender into one named architecture. The framework's Analytics and Semantic Governance layer applies directly to every Power BI and Fabric engagement EPC Group ships, providing customers with documented controls, certified semantic models, audit-ready lineage from source to dashboard, and the same governance posture extended into the Multi-Model AI layer above the data.
“What sustains six consecutive quarters of Leader recognition is not the dashboard work alone. It is the discipline of building Business Intelligence environments that meet enterprise governance, security, and audit requirements from day one — and the willingness to bring multiple AI models into the analytics layer without compromising any of it.”
What the Recognition Represents
The Summer 2026 designation marks the sixth consecutive G2 Leader award for Business Intelligence Consulting Providers. The previous awards were given in:
- Fall 2024
- Spring 2025
- Fall 2025
- Winter 2025
- Spring 2026
EPC Group has maintained a strong position as a category Leader on the G2 Grid for two consecutive years. This consistency highlights our commitment to excellence.
During this time, the Microsoft data platform experienced major architectural changes. This period had more changes than any other two-year span in the firm's history since 1997.
EPC Group's BI and data projects take place remotely throughout the United States and Canada. Senior architects lead these projects using the firm's Engagement Operating Model.
This model includes:
- Named owners
- Control schedules
- Board-ready reports from the start to the go-live phase
Each Statement of Work specifies the senior architect responsible for delivery. All engagements maintain the same governance approach from kickoff to production.
About EPC Group
EPC Group is a Houston-based Microsoft consultancy founded in 1997, holding core Microsoft Solutions Partner designations under the Microsoft Cloud Partner Program. The firm has been named a G2 Leader for Business Intelligence Consulting Providers across six consecutive quarterly reports, is a Houston Business Journal Fast 100 honoree (#2, 2009), and is AP News-cited.
EPC Group serves organizations across all industries — Fortune 500, federal agencies, healthcare, financial services, government, manufacturing, energy, education, retail, technology, and global enterprises. Founder Errin O'Connor is a four-time bestselling author for Microsoft Press and Sams including Microsoft Power BI Dashboards Step by Step (Microsoft Press, 2018), a former NASA Lead Architect, and an original member of both the Microsoft SharePoint and Power BI Beta Teams.
Contact EPC Group today via email at contact@epcgroup.net or via phone at (888) 381-9725 or on the web at www.epcgroup.net.
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