Business Intelligence & Power BI

Turn reporting into a decision system your business can trust

Datazeb designs Power BI and business intelligence solutions that bring scattered data together, standardise the numbers, automate reporting, and give decision-makers a clear view of what is happening across the business.

Illustrative interface

Before

  • Excel extracts
  • Manual consolidation
  • Inconsistent KPIs
  • Emailed PDF packs

After

  1. Source systems
  2. Governed model
  3. Power BI
  4. Decisions

If reporting is slow, inconsistent, or difficult to trust, the dashboard is rarely the only problem

Many organisations reach the same point: reports are being built manually, data lives in multiple systems, KPI definitions differ between teams, and leadership spends too much time asking which number is correct.

  • Monthly or weekly reports take hours or days to prepare
  • Excel files have become business-critical systems
  • Different teams report different versions of the same KPI
  • Management cannot see performance without asking someone to prepare it
  • Power BI reports have become slow, difficult to maintain, or inconsistent
  • Data refreshes fail and nobody has clear ownership
  • Sensitive data needs better access control
  • The business wants self-service analytics without losing governance

Business intelligence built around the decisions your teams actually make

We do not begin with a visual. We begin with the business questions, the source data, and the decisions the reporting environment needs to support.

  1. Executive & Management Dashboards

    Clear reporting for leadership teams across financial, operational, sales, service, workforce, and performance metrics.

  2. Power BI Report Development

    Well-structured interactive reports designed for real operational use, not demonstration-only visuals.

  3. Semantic Models & KPI Frameworks

    Reusable models, measures, relationships, calculation logic, and definitions that create consistency across reporting.

  4. DAX & Power Query

    Complex calculations, transformations, reusable logic, and performance-focused modelling.

  5. Power BI Service & Administration

    Workspaces, gateways, refresh, deployment, permissions, apps, governance, licensing, and operational support.

  6. Security & Controlled Access

    Row-level security and access models that provide the right information to the right users.

  7. Performance Optimisation

    Model, query, visual, and refresh improvements for slow or difficult-to-maintain environments.

  8. Excel-to-Power BI Modernisation

    Move critical recurring reporting out of manual spreadsheets and into an automated, governed analytics environment.

How it fits together

From scattered sources to a governed reporting system

The semantic model is the centre: KPIs are defined once, secured once and reused by every report, app and Excel workbook.

  1. Sources

    • ERP and finance
    • CRM and sales
    • POS and operations
    • Excel and files
    • Databases and APIs
  2. Preparation

    • Power Query / dataflows
    • SQL or data warehouse where needed
    • Scheduled refresh
  3. Semantic model

    • Governed KPI measures
    • Shared dimensions and hierarchies
    • Row-level security
    • Performance tuning
  4. Reporting

    • Executive dashboards
    • Self-service reports
    • Power BI apps
    • Analyze in Excel
  5. Operation

    • Workspaces and deployment
    • Refresh monitoring
    • Ownership and support

Dashboard gallery

More Power BI reports we have built

Reports for retail, healthcare, automotive, construction and investment clients.

  • Revenue, profit and margin dashboard (Retail), Power BI Open larger view
    Retail Revenue, profit and margin Month and year to date against budget and last year, by salesperson, store and product line.
  • Sales against target dashboard (Apparel retail), Power BI Open larger view
    Apparel retail Sales against target Orders and revenue against target by store, region, garment type and salesperson.
  • Patient profile analysis dashboard (Healthcare & pharma), Power BI Open larger view
    Healthcare & pharma Patient profile analysis Age, time since diagnosis, stage at diagnosis and metastasis, filtered by therapy line and location.
  • Purchasing and inventory dashboard (Automotive trading), Power BI Open larger view
    Automotive trading Purchasing and inventory Cars bought, sold and available, with purchase prices and profit by buying centre and city.
  • Year-over-year growth dashboard (Construction materials), Power BI Open larger view
    Construction materials Year-over-year growth Sales growth by product line and a map of fulfilments for the current year.
  • Climate-risk exposure dashboard (Investment & ESG), Power BI Open larger view
    Investment & ESG Climate-risk exposure Portfolio exposure by region and sector, with risk scores by country and industry under two emissions scenarios.

Client names, logos and people's names are blurred. Figures are the reports' own data, not results claimed by Datazeb.

See Related Work

What should improve after a good BI implementation?

  • Less manual preparation and spreadsheet consolidation
  • Faster access to management information
  • Clearer ownership of KPI definitions
  • More consistent reporting across teams and business units
  • Better visibility into operational performance
  • Improved confidence in the numbers
  • More scalable reporting as data volumes and users grow
  • A stronger foundation for forecasting, automation, and AI

In detail

Explore the detail

Common use cases

  • Executive and board reporting
  • Financial and management reporting
  • Sales and revenue analytics
  • Inventory and stock intelligence
  • Operational performance dashboards
  • Healthcare and clinical operations reporting
  • Customer and service analytics
  • Workforce and HR analytics
  • Marketing and ecommerce performance
  • Multi-location / multi-business-unit reporting
  • Audit and compliance reporting
  • Data quality and exception monitoring

Already using Power BI? We can help improve what you have

Not every engagement needs a rebuild. Datazeb can review an existing reporting environment and identify where performance, modelling, governance, access, or maintainability can be improved.

  • Model and relationship review
  • DAX review
  • Refresh and gateway assessment
  • Workspace and deployment structure
  • Permissions and RLS review
  • Report performance assessment
  • KPI and metric consistency
  • Data-source dependencies
  • Documentation and ownership gaps
Request a Power BI Review

Ongoing expertise without building a full internal BI team

For organisations that need continuous reporting capability, Datazeb can provide retained support for development, administration, troubleshooting, enhancements, and advisory.

  • New reports and dashboard enhancements
  • New data-source connections
  • Refresh and gateway troubleshooting
  • Model and DAX optimisation
  • Workspace and user administration
  • Security and RLS changes
  • Data quality investigation
  • Documentation and knowledge transfer
  • Backlog support for internal BI teams
Explore Managed Analytics Support

Power BI works best when the surrounding data stack works too

  • Microsoft Power BI – Desktop, Service, Report Server
  • Microsoft Fabric and Azure data services
  • SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL
  • Python-based data processing and APIs
  • Excel and operational file-based sources
  • ERP, CRM, finance, POS, and custom business systems
  • Cloud and on-premise gateway environments

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Can you build Power BI from our existing Excel reports?

Yes. Datazeb can review the existing reporting logic, identify the real data sources behind it, and rebuild recurring reporting into a more automated and maintainable Power BI environment.

Can you work with an existing Power BI environment?

Yes. We can improve, extend, troubleshoot, or govern an existing environment instead of rebuilding everything.

Do you only build dashboards?

No. We also work on data models, SQL, APIs, ETL pipelines, gateways, security, administration, and the data architecture behind Power BI.

Can you work with our internal BI or IT team?

Yes. Datazeb can work independently or alongside internal teams, consultants, and technology partners.

Do you provide ongoing support after launch?

Yes. Ongoing retained support and dedicated consulting are available for organisations that need continuous BI capability.

Power BI work for organisations like these

  • HashMove
  • Verge Mobile
  • Metric-X
  • Civil Cast
  • Climate Risk Services
  • Vava Cars
  • T-Mobile
  • Urban Value Corner Store
  • Bawany
  • Waadli
  • Homex Smith
  • Wishmart
  • Essence
  • RAD Perfumery
  • Joy Socks

Feedback

What Power BI clients say

  • Ovais was excellent. He was very flexible to adjust to our changing requirements and demonstrated dedication to delivering well and making sure we were able to meet our own commitments. He was friendly and responsive throughout the project. I would highly recommend him.

    Saad Shah CEO & Founder, Metric-X Upwork review
  • Ovais is an extremely talented analyst with exemplary credentials and unmatched enthusiasm, who is able to create crafted custom work across our organisation.

    Joshua Murphy IT & Systems Manager, Civil Cast Client feedback
  • Wow – that's all I can say. LIFESAVER. Not only did he troubleshoot the error, he explained what was happening in a way that will help ensure the error doesn't happen again in the future. Great experience. Thank you again.

    Victor Fiverr review

Learn it yourself · Datazeb Training

Learn Power BI with Datazeb Training

Prefer to build the skills in-house? Live online Power BI courses taught by the same practitioners who deliver these projects.

training.datazeb.com

Make your reporting easier to trust – and easier to use

If your reporting is manual, inconsistent, slow, or difficult to scale, tell us what is happening today. We can help identify whether the right next step is a dashboard, model redesign, data integration, environment review, or a broader BI solution.