Power BI transformed how organizations visualize and explore data. But for finance teams, the reporting gap never fully closed.
Paginated reports in Power BI were supposed to replace the formatted financial outputs that teams had been producing in SSRS, SAP BO, Cognos, and Excel for decades. In practice, they haven’t. Building pixel-perfect financial statements - proper P&L layouts, variance rows, IBCS-compliant formatting, paginated exports that hold their structure — still requires workarounds, external tools, or a trip back to Excel. Legacy reporting platforms are still running because there’s no clean path to replace them inside Fabric. And every month, finance teams are maintaining two worlds: their data in Fabric, their reports somewhere else.
The question this session answers: what if you didn’t have to?
Your data is already in your semantic models on Microsoft Fabric. In this session, Anoovendhan Subramanian - Senior Product Manager, Lumel and Sowjanya BNK - Director, Client Partner, EMEA & APAC, iLink walk through what it looks like to build formatted financial reports and paginated output directly on top of that model - no separate reporting layer, no export-and-rebuild workflow, no legacy platform keeping the lights on.
Sowjanya brings direct field experience working with hundreds of large enterprises navigating this exact transition - what’s blocking finance teams from migrating legacy reports into the Microsoft landscape, where the current tooling falls short, and what a viable path forward actually looks like. Anoovendhan brings a live demonstration of how Fabric Plan Intelligence Sheet closes that gap natively, on top of a Fabric semantic model, in real time.
This is a conversation, not a presentation. Expect candid discussion of the real challenges, followed by a live demo that addresses them directly.
What the session covers:
Who this is for: Finance teams still running reports outside of Fabric, BI leads evaluating whether Fabric can fully replace their legacy reporting stack, and IT architects planning a migration off SSRS, SAP BO, or Excel-based financial reporting
