Give Your Team Self-Service Analytics, Governed by IT

End the report request backlog. Business users build their own reports, pivot tables, and visualizations over only the data you choose to expose, in your environment. IT controls what each role can see, so users can get the data they need on their own.

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Take Reporting Off IT's Plate Without Giving Up Control

Self-service raises the same worry: If business users can build their own reports, what stops them from seeing data they shouldn't? m-Power DX answers it. IT publishes governed datasets, each one row-secured to the right roles, and users explore only within those boundaries. They get to build reports, pivot tables, and visualizations on their own. You decide what they can touch. Set the datasets up with m-Power, or have our consultants do it for you.

Real m-Power self-service view with a sales and profit table, shipment pie chart, and quarterly cost charts
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Users answer their own questions

With a point-and-click interface, business users build reports, lookups, and pivot tables themselves, without opening a ticket.

  • Build reports, lookups, and pivot tables on their own
  • Filter, sort, and group without a ticket
  • Export to Excel or PDF in a click
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IT controls what they can touch

Users only ever see the datasets you publish, filtered to their role. The rest of the database stays out of reach.

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Runs over your data, in your environment

m-Power DX explores your live databases where they already sit, on-prem or in your cloud, without copying data out to a vendor's cloud.

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Takes the report backlog off IT

When users serve themselves, the queue of one-off report requests shrinks and IT gets its time back.

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Learn it in minutes

There's no query language to learn. New users pick up the interface and build their first report the same day.

  • Point-and-click, no SQL to write
  • New users productive in minutes
  • No report-writing training to schedule
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Roll it out to everyone

Perpetual license, no per-user fees. Give self-service to any team that needs it.

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This is a product that I've been looking for, for 30 years, because it checks every box that I wanted in terms of a highly productive development environment without having to build a whole development staff.

Robert Reeder, CIO and VP of Technology, Henley Enterprises

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We've consolidated our data into a secure web portal where each department can easily access the data and reports they require in seconds.

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We are really able to fine tune m-Power to match our business processes. You just can't get that from out-of-the-box software.

Sharon Hadley, Systems Analyst, Pearl Buck Center

What Can Your Users Build?

Everything below runs over the governed datasets IT publishes, so users explore on their own without stepping outside their permissions:

01 · Reports & Lookups

Reports and Data Lookups, Self-Served

Business users answer their own "what happened" questions. They pick a dataset, filter it, group it, and pull the report they need, then export it, all without waiting on IT.

  • Ad hoc reports over governed data
  • Quick record lookups and searches
  • Export to Excel or PDF on demand
Real m-Power interactive report with drag-and-drop dimensions, totals, and a sales chart
02 · Pivot Tables & Charts

Pivot Tables and Visualizations

For the "why" questions, users pivot the same governed data to view it from any angle and turn it into a chart, without exporting to a spreadsheet or asking for a new report.

  • Pivot and cross-tab on their own
  • Turn a report into a chart in a click
  • Drill from a total down to the detail
03 · Saved Views

Saved Queries and Personal Views

Once a user builds a view that works, they save it and come back to it. The next month, it's one click instead of starting over, and it's still governed by the same rules.

  • Save and reuse a query or layout
  • Keep personal views per user
  • Share a view with the team when it helps
04 · Governed Datasets

Governed Datasets, Published by IT

Behind every self-service view is a dataset IT set up: The tables and columns exposed, the rows secured by role, the joins already done. Users explore within those boundaries.

  • Expose only the tables and columns you choose
  • Secure rows by role, region, or user
  • Publish clean, joined datasets users can trust

Use Cases

A few of the ways teams put m-Power DX to work. IT publishes the datasets; users take it from there:

Ad hoc reports

Let users build the one-off report they need instead of adding it to IT's queue.

Data lookups

Quick searches to find an order, a customer, or a record in seconds.

Pivot tables

Cross-tab governed data to see it from whatever angle answers the question.

Visualizations

Turn a report into a chart to spot the trend without a separate BI tool.

Saved queries

Save a view once and reuse it, so recurring questions take one click.

Governed datasets

IT publishes clean, row-secured datasets that users can safely explore.

Scheduled exports

Set a saved report to run and deliver on a schedule you choose.

Role-based access

Every user sees only the data their role allows, right down to the row.

Set up a demo and we'll build a governed self-service view over your data, live.

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Self-Service That Stays Inside Your Security Model

Run self-service on the same security model as the rest of your applications, so IT keeps the same control over data access.

Row-level permissions

Control which users see which rows and columns in a dataset.

Role-based access

Lock down dataset and data access per user role.

Use your authentication

Integrate with Active Directory, OAuth2, or SAML.

Audit trails

Full logging of user actions and logins.

Frequently asked questions

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What is m-Power DX (Data Explorer)?

m-Power is the low-code development platform from mrc, and DX is its self-service layer. IT publishes governed datasets, and business users explore them with a point-and-click interface to build their own reports, lookups, pivot tables, and visualizations, all inside the permissions you set.

Yes. Once IT publishes a dataset, users build reports, lookups, and pivot tables themselves with a point-and-click interface. There's no query language to learn, so most people build their first report the same day.

No. Users can only explore the datasets IT publishes, filtered to their role. Tables, columns, and rows you don't expose stay out of reach. Self-service happens inside the boundaries you set.

Each dataset is row- and column-secured by role, on top of your existing authentication (Active Directory, OAuth2, SAML). One user might see their region's orders while another sees the whole company, from the same published dataset, and every action is logged.

That's the point. IT sets up the governed datasets once, then users answer their own day-to-day questions instead of filing report requests. The one-off reporting queue shrinks and IT gets time back for higher-value work.

Not hard. The interface is point-and-click, with no SQL or report-writing skills required. New users typically pick it up and build a working report within minutes, so there's no training program to schedule.

m-Power DX runs in your environment, on-prem or in your cloud, over your live databases (SQL Server, Oracle, Db2, MySQL, and more). It explores your data where it already sits, with no copy to a separate vendor cloud.

No. m-Power is a one-time perpetual license with no per-user fees, so you can give self-service to any team that needs it without the cost climbing as you add people. See the pricing page for how licensing works.

Dashboards and BI apps are usually built by IT for users. With DX, users build their own views: They pick a governed dataset and explore it themselves. Many teams use both, publishing dashboards for the standard views and DX for the questions no one anticipated.

Both. Your team can build the governed datasets with m-Power's low-code tools after a 5-day training, or our consultants can set them up for you or alongside you. 96% of first-time services clients come back for another project.

Last updated: July 2026

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