Sound familiar?
There are many reasons to get a health check on your data landscape
Your capacity or licensing renewal is coming up and you need to size it right
An audit is ahead and you need to know where your data is and who can access it
Fabric adoption grew organically and governance has not kept pace
Leadership is asking ‘are we getting value?’ and you need evidence to answer
What you get
Get a clear view of where your platform stands and what to do next. Automated checks and expert review turn Microsoft best practice into a Red-Amber-Green report and a prioritised action plan you can act on.
Why it’s worth doing
A clear checkpoint on what is working and what is costing you
A roadmap of short-term tactical fixes and long-term strategic investments, in priority order, that your team can start on straight away.
One clear view of your full data estate, including ROI, usage and governance, so the answer to “are we getting value?” rests on evidence.
A clear view of each security layer, from the data itself through governance and sharing. Know where data lives and who can access it.
Risks identified before they become incidents, performance issues or expensive rework.
How it works
Automated rigour, paired with real Mastermind insight
The scan shows how your platform is configured. Your team adds the business context. Together, we turn the findings into decisions you can act on.
What your Health Check covers
Automated scan
A purpose-built set of API calls maps your workspaces, datasets and reports against Microsoft's published best practice for Power BI and Fabric. Read-only: nothing in your estate changes.
Workshop with your team
We work with the people closest to the platform to understand strategic goals and priorities, and how data is produced, consumed and managed. The scan shows what is there; the workshop explains why.
Actionable report
Our specialists benchmark the evidence against Microsoft best practice and your operating reality, then walk technical and business teams through the Red-Amber-Green status and the roadmap together. The baseline is kept up to date in Cortex after the engagement.
Five areas, checked the same way every time
Every estate is measured against the same five areas and the same checkpoints, so your Red-Amber-Green status is consistent and comparable from one review to the next.
Security & Compliance
Who can access data, how sensitive information is protected, and whether sharing boundaries and audit capability are in place.
Access control & permissions · Row-level security · External & public sharing
Governance & Administration
Whether the environment is structured, managed and operated within defined policies: workspace organisation, content trust and change management.
Workspace structure · Licensing & entitlements · CI/CD & DevOps
Performance & Capacity
Whether the infrastructure can reliably support current and future workloads: compute, resource allocation and data volume management.
Capacity infrastructure · Data processing performance · Utilisation & throttling
Data & Analytics Engineering
How data is built, transformed and delivered: modelling, pipelines, quality controls and refresh automation.
Semantic layer & modelling · Data flow & transformations · Data quality & validation
Adoption & Value
Whether the platform is delivering a return: usage visibility, content lifecycle, app distribution and cost transparency.
Usage & engagement · Report & dataset lifecycle · Cost attribution & ROI
A clearer picture for an energy company
In a recent Health Check for a mid-sized energy company, we found 63% of non-personal Fabric workspaces were unmanaged and outside governance. We also identified a business-critical dataset approaching its 1 GB limit. Within 90 days of acting on our recommendations, the client had brought all workspaces under governance, put critical datasets under monitoring and gained full cost attribution by department for the first time.
Learn more about the Analytics Health Check
What’s in the flyer:
- A clear overview of what you gain from the Health Check
- A step-by-step breakdown of how the assessment works
- The five areas we assess and the key checkpoints in each
The Analytics Health Check was a real eye-opener for us. It gave us a clear and objective view of the current state of our Power BI platform, and a more deliberate approach to how we provide trusted data products across the organisation.
Data Architect, HVC Groep
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