There is no doubt that the Microsoft data analytics and Gen AI platforms can help you re-imagine processes and re-invent an entire business function like Finance. But how? Whilst an interactive Power BI report (replacing the manual month end board pack for example) is an essential part of a solution, it is not likely to be enough by itself, especially in the age of stakeholders expecting Gen AI!

Instead you need to go through a methodical approach of understanding your data, capturing stakeholder requirements (functional and non functional!), using these to design a star schema semantic model, developing data engineering processes to shape and clean data, enriching your model with measures and metadata and then designing prompt engineering to train Copilot/a custom RAG model on your data!

That's a lot of work! Fortunately, Copilot and ChatGPT can help with every single step once you're working in the AI Powered platform of Microsoft Fabric!

In this session Rishi will show an example of Income Statement reporting being taken through this process, all with minimal code and just enough effort to make this an example use case that can be completed in days and weeks rather than months and years.