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.
Open finance use case“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.
Open operations use case“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, with no shadow spreadsheets.
Open sales use case“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.
Open bi teams use case“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.
Open delivery & ba teams use case“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.
Open executives use case“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 helps users self-serve safely against governed models, reducing repetitive requests to your BI and finance teams. Prefer a guided start? Ask us about a finance pilot.
Try Nova free in Microsoft Teams today
Nova is available now in Microsoft Marketplace. 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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