Brick and Caleb explore the balance between empowering analysts with data access and the governance required to prevent data sprawl and maintain integrity and consistency across reports. They provide strategies for enabling departments to independently use data for their own insights and how to use a centralized data team to review, refine, and distribute only the best individual reports to be used by the entire company.

Key Takeaways:
0:08 Navigating the fine line between autonomy and data governance to prevent data and report inconsistency and proliferation.
1:39 How to provide access to quality data.
3:09 A method for scaling individual report successes for broader company adoption.
7:22 The role of a central Power BI team in sustaining report continuity, relevance, and accuracy over time.

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