Hi @Hitman. I agree. My two cents, someone in the report chain has to define the specific questions a report is intended to answer, and someone must define the minimum data necessary to answer this/these question(s). It does take years of experience to be able to ask the right questions/get the right data, and “you get what you pay for” in reporting. I understand your frustration, as one of the main marketing levers Microsoft pulls is that Power BI allows self-service BI, while in reality, a majority of any reporting project is developing the questions/interpreting the business requirements, properly accessing the required data, applying the business rules for any calculations according to corporate standards (not personal understandings), and then, and only then, developing the report to answer the question(s). Corporate IT resources skilled in data prep are an essential part of the solution, and, ideally, should be charged with developing and maintaining endorsed and certified datasets and dataset measure calculations that can then be used by others to develop thin reports.
Greg
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