Power BI Staff Augmentation: Monthly Support

Power BI is the go-to analytics platform to visualize data across business users in all functions. Are you sufficiently staffed to support the growing demand of your citizen developers?

For over 20 years, Smartbridge has been providing temporary staff and managed services to support business and IT for our large and enterprise clients. As a compliment to our strategy & advisory services, Smartbridge staffing for ad-hoc temporary requests is fulfilled by the same high-caliber consultants we offer for projects. Your emergency staffing needs deserve the best subject matter experts, and they’re right here at Smartbridge.

• Expert Assistance with Implementations, Migrations or Rollout Plans - Planning a Power BI enterprise deployment? It’s not uncommon to make a plan around converting hundreds of individual (free and Pro) licenses to Premium. Or, as the case may be, keep users on Pro licenses, but create an ecosystem that supports application lifecycle management and future demand.
• Deploy Power BI Reports & Dashboard Design - Temporary Smartbridge staff can create a dashboard catalog that takes into account user experience design, standard and custom visualizations, as well as advanced analytics and quick insights. Our successful track record with clients encompasses key capabilities such as business requirements workshops, reports, metrics rationalization, change management, end-user training, and self-service enablement.
• Data Warehouse Management - Sometimes Power BI issues are a symptom of backend data issues. Do you need resources equipped to assess your data architecture, integration, and quality? Insights from your data visualizations are only as good as the sources behind the curtain.
• Power BI Enterprise Gateway - One of the biggest decisions is whether an enterprise gateway is necessary. Do you need your sources to be local, on the cloud, or hybrid? Our Power BI consultants can assist with a Power BI Gateway to accommodate your future-state rollout plans.
• Temporary experts to establish Power BI Compliance - When there are no standardized operating procedures in place, regulatory compliance is at the mercy of each individual contributor. The key to compliance with GDPR, HIPAA, and various other responsibilities includes data classification and accountability, identity and access management, and host infrastructure.
• Assistance with establishing a Governance Framework - A self-service data governance model is key to continued security, compliance and efficiency. Whether it’s business-led or IT-managed, defining roles and offering training of standardized datasets is a must.
• Creating or maintaining a Power BI Center of Excellence or User Group - Finally, once the dust settles on efforts to get Power BI dashboards, users, and data management standardized, it’s time to think bigger. A Power BI Center of Excellence (CoE) or User Group could empower your users with the perfect amount of access, governance, and templates by designating a formal committee to optimize business processes around Power BI.

Smartbridge staffing options and rates vary depending on your need. Contact us to learn more about how you need to supplement your internal staff and we can provide further details regarding staff augmentation rates.