Power BI Development

Reporting people actually use

Most businesses don’t lack reports. They have too many — exported spreadsheets, a dashboard somebody built once, three versions of the same sales figure that never quite agree. Power BI can fix that, but only when the model underneath is designed properly and the reports are built around the questions people actually need answered.

We start with the decisions, not the data: who looks at this, what they need to know, and what they do next. Everything we build follows from that.

What we build

• Dashboards and reports — executive overviews, operational reports and drill-through detail, laid out so the important number is the first thing you see
• Semantic models — star-schema models with one agreed definition of revenue, margin or headcount, shared across every report instead of rebuilt in each one
• DAX measures — time intelligence, running totals, targets and variance, written to be correct first and fast second, and documented so someone else can maintain them
• Power Query transformations — repeatable data preparation in place of the manual copy-paste that happens before every month-end
• Paginated reports — pixel-perfect invoices, statements and regulatory reports where a printable layout genuinely matters
• Embedded analytics — Power BI inside your own portal or application, for customers or partners who don’t have Power BI licences of their own

Connected to the systems you already run

Power BI is only as good as the data it can reach. We connect it to SQL Server, Azure SQL, Dynamics 365, SharePoint and Excel, accounting and CRM platforms, REST APIs and the older databases nobody else wants to touch — including on-premises sources through a properly configured data gateway. Where the data needs moving or reshaping first, that’s what Integration Pipes and our Data & Analytics work are for.

When your reporting has outgrown a set of direct connections, the next step is a proper warehouse — see Fabric Data Foundation.

Secure, governed and refreshing on time

• Row-level and object-level security, so each person sees only the data they should
• Workspaces, apps and permissions structured so publishing a report doesn’t mean sharing everything
• Scheduled and incremental refresh, with failures alerted rather than discovered in a meeting
• Deployment pipelines and version control, so changes are tested before they reach the people relying on them
• Sensible licensing advice — Pro, Premium Per User or Fabric capacity — based on who actually needs what

Fixing a Power BI estate that’s got out of hand

A lot of our Power BI work starts after the first attempt. Reports that take a minute to load, refreshes that fail overnight, dozens of near-identical datasets, and measures that return different answers depending on which report you open. We audit what’s there, consolidate onto shared models, tune the slow parts, and leave you with fewer, faster reports that people trust.

Moving off Excel and legacy reporting

If your reporting still lives in business-critical spreadsheets, Access reports, SSRS or Crystal Reports, we can move it onto Power BI in stages — rebuilding the logic faithfully, checking the numbers against the old output, and keeping the original available until everyone is confident. See Legacy Application Support for the systems behind them.

Handover and training

Everything we build is documented, and we’ll train the people who’ll maintain and extend it — from report consumers learning to filter and drill, to analysts writing their own DAX. You own the models and reports outright, with no dependency on us to change a chart.

Who this is for

Businesses that want reliable, self-service reporting in Power BI — whether that’s a first set of dashboards, a move away from spreadsheets, or getting an existing Power BI estate back under control.