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Prove workspace governance ROI with sprawl and incident metrics

Governance pays back when sprawl and incident minutes drop — track those, not soft “adoption” scores alone.

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March 18, 20261 min readBy Power BI Analytics Team

Baseline before the program, then monthly. Soft NPS-style adoption scores do not fund admin time; incident and sprawl metrics do.

Hard metrics

  • Net new workspaces per month (Admin portal / scanner API) vs policy target.
  • Duplicate dataset names across workspaces sharing the same source connection string.
  • Sev-1 refresh incidents (Status = Failed on board packs) and mean time to restore after GatewayNotReachable.
  • Leaver access: hours from HR ticket to workspace/role removal (Entra group-driven RLS + View as smoke test).

Tie spend to movement

If workspace growth flattens but Failed refreshes do not, shift budget from “more training decks” to On-premises Data Gateway clusters and folding fixes (View Native Query). If duplicates drop after Deployment pipelines, keep funding promotion discipline. Avoid inventing revenue ROI; report avoided rebuild hours and reduced audit findings instead.

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Revenue

$2.2M

+3.7% vs LY

Gross margin

34.0%

+1.5 pts

Decision cycle time

7.6 days

-0.9 days

Open exceptions

19

-3 vs last week

Trailing 12 periodsvs plan
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63%
Watch
12%
Critical
5%

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