Add-ons that extend what Fabric and Power BI can do out of the box.
From embedding analytics in your own products to writing data back from reports, optimising infrastructure costs and governing your entire data estate, BI Book’s add-on suite fills the gaps Microsoft doesn’t cover natively. Each one solves a specific problem cleanly, without unnecessary complexity.
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These add-ons are built to extend the platforms you already have.
All of these add-ons run inside your existing BI Book and Microsoft environment. There’s no separate system to manage, no new platform to learn and no data to migrate. Each one is activated on top of your current setup and can be combined as your needs develop.
Some are technical infrastructure plays (Capacity Optimiser, Purview). Some extend what Power BI can do for business users (Custom Visuals, SQL View). Some open up new use cases entirely (Embedding, Power Platform). Together they cover most of the gaps organisations hit as their analytics maturity grows.
If you’re interested in any of the add-ons listed here, contact us.
ADD-ON 01
Power BI Portal – share analytics beyond your organisation’s walls.
The BI Book reporting portal means Power BI made accessible. Your reports and dashboards live in a clean, governed environment that your whole team can use without needing Power BI Pro licences or access to your organisation’s cloud infrastructure.
The portal also makes it straightforward to share analytics with external parties (clients, auditors, board members, joint venture partners etc.) without inviting them into your own Microsoft tenant. Reports can also be embedded directly into your own website, intranet or SharePoint pages for a seamless experience that stays on-brand.
ADD-ON 02
Power BI Custom Visuals – turn read-only reports into two-way planning tools.
Power BI is built for reading data. Custom Visuals extend it so users can write data back to the warehouse directly from a report.
Natively, Power BI has no write-back capability. Custom Visuals close that gap, enabling planning, budgeting and forecasting workflows where team members input numbers or assumptions directly into a Power BI interface, with changes flowing back to the underlying data model in real time. The same visual that shows last month’s actuals becomes the tool for entering next month’s plan.
Use cases include cost-effective forecasting tools, organisation-wide data collection exercises and any scenario where you want users to contribute data rather than just consume it.
ADD-ON 03
Power BI SQL View – direct access to the data layer, without leaving the platform.
SQL View provides a table editor interface that lets authorised users view and interact with the underlying data structures behind their Power BI reports. It bridges the gap between the visual reporting layer and the data layer beneath it, giving technical users more direct access without requiring a separate database tool.
ADD-ON 04
Power BI Embedding – display your reports and dashboards anywhere.
Power BI Embedding makes it possible to display your reports and dashboards anywhere: inside your own web application, on your company intranet, within your ERP or on any other page you control.
Implementing embedding securely is technically complex and costly to do without a Premium capacity in place. BI Book’s Embedded Capacity means the infrastructure for secure, scalable embedding is already there. Your analytics appear where your users already work, with the same data security and access controls as the main portal, without building a separate technical integration from scratch.
ADD-ON 05
MS Fabric / Power BI Embedded Capacity Optimiser – cut your infrastructure costs by around 40%, automatically.
Microsoft Fabric and Power BI Premium capacities are billed at a fixed level around the clock by default. Left unmanaged, a capacity running 24 hours a day at a fixed tier can easily cost €12,000 or more per month, regardless of whether anyone is actively using it at 3am on a Sunday.
The Capacity Optimiser uses API-based automation to scale your capacity up and down based on actual usage and pause it entirely during off-hours and weekends when it’s not needed. In practice, organisations typically save around 40% of their capacity costs through this automation, with no impact on performance during working hours and no manual intervention required.
For organisations running significant Fabric or Power BI Premium workloads, this is one of the fastest ways to reduce infrastructure spend without reducing capability.
ADD-ON 06
Microsoft Purview Utilisation – complete visibility into who uses your data, and how.
Microsoft Purview provides complete visibility into how data is used and governed across your Fabric and Power BI environment. Every user session is logged: who accessed what, when, from where and what they did with it.
For organisations with compliance obligations, data governance requirements or simply a need to understand how their analytics environment is being used, Purview delivers the audit trail and oversight layer that Power BI alone doesn’t provide. Sensitivity labels classify data automatically, data loss prevention policies enforce access controls and lineage tracking shows the complete journey from source system to dashboard.
BI Book’s Purview integration makes this visibility operational rather than theoretical, configured, monitored and surfaced in a way that compliance teams, data managers and IT leads can actually use.
ADD-ON 07
Embedded Power Platform Features – connect analytics to action without switching tools.
Power Apps and Power Automate can be embedded directly inside BI Book reports, extending the platform beyond analytics into action.
With embedded Power Apps, users can trigger workflows, submit forms or initiate processes without leaving their dashboard. Power Automate pipelines can be triggered from within the BI Book environment, connecting your analytics to automated actions in the systems around it. If a report surfaces an anomaly, a workflow can be triggered to investigate or escalate it automatically. If a planning input is submitted via Custom Visuals, a downstream approval process can fire without anyone switching tools.
The result is an analytics environment where insight and action happen in the same place, connected to the rest of your Microsoft ecosystem.
Pick what you need, add the rest later.
Not every organisation needs all add-ons from day one. Most start with one or two to address an immediate need, and add others as their platform use matures.
All add-ons are activated within your existing BI Book environment. Talk to our team about which ones makes sense for where you are now.