Soterre for Power BI is a comprehensive DevOps solution that delivers zero-touch version control, automated deployment, and analytics over analytics. By leveraging its metadata repository, customers can benefit from a complementary DAX expressions catalog, complete object lineage, and they are able to report on all characteristics and usage patterns of reports, dashboards, and semantic models. The application offers the following capabilities:

Soterre versions all Power BI objects, including tenant settings, without requiring any user interaction, such as check-in and check-out. It offers code diff, rollback, and full recovery of deleted items. Older versions of Power BI reports can be placed next to the current version to get a complete understanding of the visual modifications made to the report, with the option to merge specific changes.

Soterre enhances basic pipeline principles with automated deployment, approval workflows, and ticket integration to ensure complete audit trails and governance for the information company's sensitive workspaces. For workspaces that require less monitoring, one-click deployment capabilities are available to make the release process easy and fast while providing embedded rollback.

While citizen developers and business analysts are encouraged to create their own content, it naturally leads to BI sprawl. Utilize automated processes to remove unused content, maintaining a clean and lean Power BI environment while considering user categories, usage patterns, and the purpose of reports. Discover workspaces with no activity or usage and remove them safely.

Although citizen developers and business analysts create content to the best of their ability, mistakes will be made, and iterations will lead to inconsistencies in reports. Analytics over Analytics provides insight into all development activities and the quality of Power BI assets, revealing inconsistent usage of DAX expressions. This allows the Center for Enablement to take corrective actions, build education programs, and support users in creating the most accurate and reliable Power BI implementation possible.