Free community tool · no install · no telemetry

Your Power BI environment,
finally under control.

I'm Austin — a Power BI architect with 16 years in enterprise data. I built Power BI Director, a free desktop console that does what the portal can't: bulk refresh, model exploration, SQL→DAX, size analysis and RLS testing in one place.

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EXPERIENCE ACROSS — American Airlines · Citi · Centene · Rabobank · Unum · Verizon · JCPenney
Power BI Director

One free console for the whole environment

Everything an operations-minded Power BI team reaches for — without juggling the portal, SSMS, DAX Studio and Tabular Editor.

⟳ Bulk refresh, live status

Tick fifty models across workspaces, one click, watch every status update in real time — with portal-grade refresh history and cancel.

⌘ Write SQL, get DAX

Flip a toggle, write SELECT…GROUP BY, and watch the generated DAX appear live before it runs. A query tool and a DAX teacher at once.

◔ Size analyzer

VertiPaq-style memory breakdown — every column's compressed size, largest first, so you know exactly what each deletion saves.

▦ Partition-level refresh

See every partition of an incremental model and refresh just the ones you choose. Reloading one historical month no longer needs SSMS.

✓ Best-practice scanner

A curated read-only rule set — auto date/time bloat, bi-directional relationships, unformatted measures — with a concrete fix per finding.

⎊ RLS tester

Pick a role, press Test, and get per-table row counts with the role versus without. Security becomes something you verify, not hope.

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Practical Power BI engineering, from someone who runs it at enterprise scale.

About

Austin Benjamin
Austin Benjamin
Power BI Architect
Houston, TX

I've spent sixteen years in enterprise data — airlines, banking, insurance, healthcare, energy — building the dashboards executives run their week on, and the semantic models, pipelines and governance underneath them. Currently consulting on Power BI at Boardwalk Pipelines in Houston.

Somewhere along the way the interesting problems stopped being individual reports and became the environment: hundreds of models, dozens of workspaces, refreshes, security, memory, hygiene. That's what I build tools for now — and I release them free, because the Power BI community gave me a career and this is a good way to give something back.

Power BI · DAXMicrosoft FabricSnowflakeDatabricks Azure Data FactoryPythonSQLPower Apps · Automate SAP HANAInformatica

Certifications: PL-300 Power BI Data Analyst · DP-203 Azure Data Engineering · AZ-204 Azure Developer · Oracle BI 11g Implementation Specialist

Power BI Consultant
Boardwalk Pipelines · Houston, TX
2025 – Present
Senior Analytics Engineer / Power BI Architect
Centene Corporation
2022 – 2025
Senior Data Analyst & BI Consultant
Tata Consultancy Services — Unum, Rabobank, American Airlines
2015 – 2022
Specialist
Verizon Enterprise Solutions
2011 – 2015
Analyst Programmer
Ramco Systems — Citi
2010 – 2011
B.E. Computer Science
Anna University
2003 – 2007

Let's talk data.

Consulting, Power BI architecture, or feedback on the tools — I read everything.

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