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We dropped Power BI. The finance team builds its own reports with AI now.

He says his business got serious about Power BI reporting about twelve months ago, then three months ago threw it out and replaced it with AI licences. A third party warehouse tidies the data with an MCP on top, and the finance team now builds its own reports quickly instead of waiting on a reporting team.

How it works

  1. Used a third party data warehouse platform to normalise the business data, Put an MCP layer on top so the AI can work with that data, Replaced Power BI with AI licences about three months ago, Finance team members now build their own reports with AI

Why it’s worth knowing

A whole paid reporting tool was dropped because the agent, hooked to the company data, lets non specialists make the reports themselves.

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Summarized from a public post on bsky.app. See the original ↗

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