Use cases
Finance and operations answers, without another dashboard login.
Nova helps teams across your organisation get fast, governed answers from approved Power BI semantic models — directly in the Microsoft Teams conversations they already use.
Finance
Finance teams get governed answers in Teams without waiting for another report cut or export.
“Explain the month-on-month movement in gross margin.”
Reduce manual variance explanations during month-end.
- Management reporting
- Board pack analysis
- Variance explanations
- PY comparisons
- Month-end support
Operations
Ops leaders ask follow-ups in the same Teams thread instead of raising another BI ticket.
“Which site is driving the increase in operating costs?”
Spot exceptions faster without waiting for a new report.
- Performance tracking
- Volume and value analysis
- Site, region, product, or customer breakdowns
- Exception spotting
Sales
Sales teams explore governed model data safely — no shadow spreadsheets.
“Break revenue down by customer group and compare to PY.”
Understand performance drivers without exporting data.
- Revenue performance
- Customer group analysis
- Pipeline and conversion questions
- Region or account breakdowns
BI Teams
BI teams scale adoption of semantic models without losing control of measures and access.
“Can users safely self-serve from the approved model?”
Reduce repetitive report requests while keeping governance central.
- Reduce repetitive report requests
- Help users self-serve safely
- Increase adoption of semantic models
- Keep governance centralised
- Model health audits before rollout
- Catch relationship and measure issues early
Delivery & BA teams
BA and delivery teams produce requirements, user stories, and sign-off packs in Teams — with source traceability and export to Jira or Azure DevOps.
“Nova, create a BA pack from these workshop notes.”
Cut hours of documentation work and accelerate discovery-to-build.
- Workshop notes to requirements
- User stories and acceptance criteria
- Sign-off and delivery readiness
- RFP and discovery analysis
- Duplicate and conflict detection
Executives
Leadership gets narrative answers in Teams during meetings — not another portal login.
“What changed this month and what should I look at next?”
Get fast summaries without navigating dashboards.
- Ask high-level questions in Teams
- Get fast summaries without dashboard navigation
- Follow up naturally
Turn your Power BI semantic models into a Teams-native analyst.
Whether your team needs month-end variance explanations, regional performance breakdowns, or board-ready summaries, Nova is designed to help users self-serve safely against governed models — reducing repetitive requests to your BI and finance teams.
Try Nova on your semantic model this week
Activate with $69 free usage credit — no card required. Same feature set on every plan: semantic Q&A, board packs, document intelligence, channel safeguards, and portal governance.
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