About LayerPulse
Built from the field, not from a slide deck.
LayerPulse is not a tool dreamed up on a whiteboard. It was built by a Microsoft Power BI and Fabric professional who hit the same walls year after year on client projects, and decided to fix them.
Why LayerPulse exists
Project after project, I kept seeing the same pattern. The technology worked, the dashboards were live, but the moment someone asked “what is this actually costing us, and what should we fix first?” the hunting began.
- Documentation that was out of date the moment it was finished, and that nobody kept current.
- A capacity bill that nobody could break down to show who or what was driving the cost.
- Reports that kept running for months without anyone ever looking at them.
- Knowledge that lived in one person's head, and walked out the door when that person did.
- Audits where, every single time, we had to work out from scratch how it all fit together.
The real problem was not the manual work. It was that nobody knew exactly what the estate looked like. No overview means working reactively: you only spring into action once things have already escalated, a report that has fallen over, a bill nobody can explain, a data model nobody dares to touch anymore. That is how a Power BI and Fabric estate turns into a black box.
That is what LayerPulse is: the tool I wished I'd had. Costs, usage, quality and governance tied together, translated into a concrete to-do list, with documentation that keeps itself up to date.
What goes wrong without an overview
It is not about the manual effort. It is about what goes wrong every day while you have no view into your own estate, and while documentation is missing or out of date.
Knowledge walks out the door
When your Power BI expert leaves, years of context disappear overnight. The handover is verbal, rushed and incomplete.
Changes drag on forever
A simple change turns into days of detective work. Nobody knows which measures depend on each other, or why a relationship is set to inactive.
Hidden risk everywhere
Nobody knows whether the data model follows best practices. Performance problems go unnoticed, errors creep in quietly, and the costs climb without anyone seeing the source.
What LayerPulse focuses on
Knowledge retention
So expertise never walks out the door.
Clarity
So everyone can work with confidence.
Improvement
So your data models follow best practices automatically.
Who's behind it
I'm Michiel Quakernaat. Through QaaS Consultancy, I work as a freelance consultant, architect and trainer for Microsoft Fabric, Power BI and the Azure Data Platform. I've worked in Power BI since 2017 and spent more than fifteen years in the Microsoft ecosystem. Not a product manager who has never written a DAX formula, but someone who builds Fabric estates from scratch, designs the architecture, and steps in on complex environments that need an extra pair of expert hands.
That experience comes from projects with organisations like SBM Offshore, Dutch Railways (NS), Heineken and the Rijksmuseum, covering everything from requirements and data modelling to architecture, data engineering, reporting and end-user adoption.
That hands-on practice sits behind every product decision. What's in LayerPulse is in there because it solves a real problem I ran into with real clients, not because it looked good on a roadmap.
Curious whether it fits your estate?
Send a message or book a short intro call. We'll look at your Power BI and Fabric estate together.