Build your own dashboards, on data you can trust.

Self-service BI without scattered Excel files

In many organisations the standard reports live in Power BI and everything else happens in Excel: an export here, a pivot table there. It is quick, but nobody knows any more which figures are right. The dashboard builder gives you the speed of building something yourself, on the same data and with the same definitions as your standard reports.

The difference from an open-ended self-service BI tool is that you don't join tables yourself or invent formulas. You work with data sources that have been set up in advance: revenue is revenue, margin is margin. That means you can build your own dashboards without ending up with three versions of the same number.

How to build a dashboard in the dashboard builder

You start a new dashboard from "Dashboards" and add visuals. For each visual you choose a source, a chart type, the measures and how you want to group the data, for example by month or by region. The settings appear on the right; on a narrower screen you get a separate settings screen.

• Search sources by name, description or measure.
• Choose a period and optionally compare with last year.
• Set the title, labels, colours, axes and a target value under "Appearance".
• Preview how the dashboard looks on desktop and mobile.
• If two people work on the same dashboard at once, ENABLE warns about a conflict instead of overwriting anyone's work.

Data sources: approved first, usable after

A data source starts as a read-only query in the SQL Explorer, published as an endpoint. Platform admins review the columns, decide which fields are dimensions and which are measures, set units and how values are aggregated, describe the business meaning and decide which profiles may use the source.

For data that differs per person, a source can be set up as user-bound. The query then filters on the signed-in user itself, through a parameter filled in by the server. Important: sharing a dashboard never automatically grants access to its source. A viewer always needs both permissions.

Ask AI: chart suggestions based on metadata

With "Ask AI" you describe in one sentence what you want to see, for example "revenue by month this year versus last year". The AI picks at most two sources you have access to and only sees the approved metadata: field names, units and descriptions. No rows of data, no identities, no passwords and no SQL.

Every suggestion is checked for structure, source, units and access, and then tested with a read-only query plan. You see the suggestion with real data and decide yourself: "Apply proposal" or "Discard". The AI does not run any SQL or code itself.

Dashboard builder or Power BI?

The dashboard builder does not replace Power BI. The two complement each other: Power BI for rich, standard reporting, the dashboard builder for quick overviews you want to be able to adjust yourself.