CERN staff responsible for managing budgets and/or contracts can now use a single-entry point for all their reporting needs. The CERN Expenditure Tracking (CET) tool has been upgraded to help facilitate the introduction of Power BI – Microsoft’s business analytics platform – into Finance and Procurement (FP) reporting. CET now serves as a portal and provides access to three new Power BI reports:
- Budget Follow-Up: available to CET users, providing a consolidated view of budget performance.
- Contract Follow-Up: available to CET users with contractual permissions, enabling tracking of contract financials.
- Procurement Procedures: available to CET users with tendering access, offering an overview of procurement processes.
These reports deliver enhanced data visualisation and will gradually replace existing CET reports in the future.
Semantic models
Two semantic models (Budget Follow-Up and Contract Follow-Up) are available for advanced users who wish to create custom analyses in Power BI.
Please note that access to Power BI reports and semantic models depends on your user profile (see Licensing and Access to Power BI Artifacts). If you require access to an item that is not currently available to you, you can request it via ServiceNow.
Useful documentation
To support users, CET provides direct links to the “Finance and Procurement Computing Documentation” Confluence space, which includes:
- Documentation for Power BI reports and semantic models
- The FP Glossary with definitions of commonly used terms at CERN
- Other resources such as CET Help and links to training opportunities
We encourage all users to complete the Foundations and Intermediate Power BI training courses offered at CERN to become familiar with the tool and make the most of the reports and semantic models.