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The Case of the Stuck County: 45 Departments, One Version of Truth

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Project Metrics

$6,000
Setup Cost
$20,000
Custom Budget
4 weeks
Time to Value
Created by Joe Christensen Public Sector / County
SMBHackathonPublic SectorD365 F&O

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Solution Type Report Factory Standard
Problem Domain F&O / Data Modeling
Product Used Conduit BI Core
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The Problem Statement (Stuck Customer)

“I airlifted you off the top of a building as the water was rising. I don’t owe you this helicopter bill.”

The county is paralyzed. 45 departments are looking at the same data through 45 different lenses. They’ve already paid for a long-term partner project that never finished. They are stuck in the “Rising Water” phase of reporting—manual entry, mismatched totals, and zero visibility.

The Blueprint (Report Factory Standards)

To solve this, we aren’t just throwing a dashboard at them. We are invoking the 5 Standards of the Report Factory:

  1. ETL Plumbing: Solidifying the pipe from F&O to Fabric.
  2. Data Modeling: A single source of truth for all 45 departments.
  3. Visual Hierarchy: Flyovers for executives, drill-downs for analysts.
  4. Maintenance: Systems that can be managed even if outsourced.
  5. Portability: Moving the blueprint from test to production in one click.

The Creator Showcase

Featured Creators: Bish & Bhavana

The Pitch: Bish proposes a “Flyover” architecture. Using MCP servers against Fabric, we simulate five different department scenarios to ensure the report responds dynamically to departmental security roles.

The Solution:

  • Grid-Paper Blueprint: A grease-pen style layout of the data architecture.
  • The Reveal: A Power BI solution that allows Will County to emulate any department view instantly.

The Recap & Action

The client was skeptical because we finished “too fast.” The bottleneck isn’t the tech anymore; it’s the user’s ability to absorb the speed of Conduit BI.

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