AS400 Reporting and Power BI Integration Software

Who owns data definitions in AS400 Power BI reporting?

Each shared dataset and measure should have a business owner and a technical owner. The business owner approves meaning, exclusions, and calculation changes.

Answer

The technical owner manages the reporting mechanics.

  • Source tables
  • Refresh rules
  • Security
  • Lineage
  • Report reliability

Without named ownership, every dashboard can redefine the same business measures differently.

  • Sales
  • Margin
  • Inventory
  • Backlog
  • Customer status

A semantic layer turns those definitions into governed assets instead of one-off report logic.

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