DIAGNOSTIC AUDIT

Power BI Engineering Health Check

Find the technical debt hiding inside your Power BI environment. A structured, metadata-only diagnostic that pinpoints memory bloat, DAX bottlenecks, and workflow friction.

AUDIENCE & RATIONALE

Who this is for — and why it matters

Designed for BI directors, engineering managers, and analytics leads whose semantic models have outgrown standard desktop authoring.

Why it matters: Purchasing higher Fabric capacity nodes or upgrading Premium SKUs does not resolve Cartesian relationships, high-cardinality dictionary bloat, or single-threaded DAX iterator cascades. A technical health check identifies the software-engineering root causes before they crash production.

What You Receive in the Health Check

01

Quantified Engineering Scorecard

Overall architectural health score graded across Model Topology, DAX Efficiency, Memory Footprint, and Git Automation.

02

Top 10 High-Impact Findings

Prioritized breakdown of critical performance bottlenecks and fragile calculation anti-patterns.

03

Root-Cause Technical Debrief

In-depth 30-minute walk-through with our Power BI engineers explaining why your model behaves as it does.

04

Step-by-Step Remediation Plan

Exact code snippets, measure rewrites, and modeling modifications ready for your team to execute.

6 Core Inspection Disciplines

01 //Semantic Model Star Schema

Identify snowflake normalization, redundant joins, and ambiguous relationship topologies.

02 //VertiPaq Memory Footprint

Pinpoint top bottleneck columns, high-cardinality keys, and dictionary bloat consuming RAM.

03 //DAX Evaluation & Callback Loops

Audit slow measures for implicit context transition, iterator callbacks, and Cartesian filters.

04 //Power Query & Refresh Folding

Verify relational query folding, remove gateway refresh bottlenecks, and streamline ETL steps.

05 //Governance & Metric Standards

Detect measure duplication, workspace sprawl, and lack of single-source-of-truth certification.

06 //PBIP, TMDL & Fabric Readiness

Assess readiness for Git source control, automated deployment pipelines, and Direct Lake storage.

STRICT METADATA-ONLY DIAGNOSTICS

We do not need or ask for your underlying transaction rows, customer PII, or confidential business data. Our diagnostics operate on semantic model schema definitions (BIM, TMDL, or VertiPaq Analyzer VPAX metadata).

Request a Diagnostic Health Check

Fill out the parameters below. An engineer will review your model context and respond within 24 hours.

Enterprise confidentiality: We never request customer PII or transaction data. Audits operate on anonymized model metadata (BIM / TMDL / VPAX).
THE DIAGNOSTIC WORKFLOW

What happens after you submit

1

Triage & Secure Metadata Intake

Within 24 business hours, our team confirms receipt and sends non-disclosure confirmation along with simple instructions to export model schema metadata.

2

Static Analysis & Benchmark Scoring

We decompile column dictionaries, map relationship topologies, profile measure evaluation trees, and grade your model across our 6 core engineering disciplines.

3

Technical Debrief & Prioritized Remediation Plan

You receive the complete engineering scorecard with exact measure rewrites, partitioning advice, and an engineering consultation to review findings.