Similar to the data warehouse bus matrix described in Chapter 1, Planning Power BI Projects, a report architecture diagram can be helpful for planning and communicating Power BI projects with both business and IT stakeholders. This diagram serves to maintain the scope and focus of individual reports. For example, certain business questions or entities (such as Customers, Products) can be assigned to dedicated reports and the individual pages of these reports can visualize these questions or entities at varying levels of detail.
Most commonly, a single report page will address the top priority of a report at a summary level. This page includes cards and/or KPI visuals at the top-left of the page and charts rather ...
