Power BI is where your organisation's data gets turned into meaning — but the dashboards and reports it produces are often only useful to the people who know they exist and know how to navigate them. When a new analyst joins, or a stakeholder wants a quick answer, or a report from six months ago holds the context for a decision being made today, finding and using that information is harder than it should be. askFinz Knowledge is coming to make it easier: connect Power BI and every dashboard, report, dataset, and measure becomes searchable and usable in plain language.
What changes when Power BI is connected
Most organisations have more Power BI reports than anyone can keep track of. A report built to answer one question gets shared, extended, and then forgotten about when the person who built it moves on. Meanwhile, analysts rebuild similar reports from scratch because they don't know the earlier one exists.
With Knowledge, your Power BI content becomes discoverable. Ask "is there already a report tracking customer acquisition cost by region?" and Knowledge finds it, even if it was published two years ago by a different team. Ask "which dataset covers our subscription renewal rates?" and the answer comes back immediately, with a reference to where the data lives.
In Research, Power BI becomes source material. A strategy presentation can cite actual figures from your own dashboards, with the report as the reference, instead of pulling numbers into a slide from memory. A team preparing a business case can use Research to draw together relevant metrics from across multiple reports and frame them around the argument they're making.
Everyday examples
- A head of finance asks "what revenue figure does the executive dashboard show for last month?" — Knowledge retrieves it from the report directly, so a meeting prep doesn't require opening every dashboard.
- A data analyst asks "has anyone built a churn analysis report before?" — Knowledge finds the existing report and saves a week of work.
- A marketing lead asks "which reports track email campaign performance?" — Chat finds the relevant dashboards and describes what each one covers.
- A new business analyst asks "what are the key measures defined in our sales performance dataset?" — Knowledge explains the dataset structure from the report metadata.
Why analytics teams will get this immediately
Power BI is already in the business of making data accessible — but it does it through dashboards that require a screen and a URL. With askFinz, the same information becomes accessible through a question. The analyst who built the report doesn't need to be in the room for anyone to use it.
askFinz Knowledge with Power BI is on the roadmap. See what Knowledge can do and join the waitlist to get early access when it's ready.