Managed Analytics & Ongoing Support

Keep your data environment reliable, useful, and improving

Datazeb provides ongoing support for organisations that need experienced BI, data engineering, automation, and AI capability without building every skill in-house.

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The first dashboard is rarely the last requirement

Once analytics becomes part of everyday operations, the environment keeps changing. New KPIs appear, source systems change, users request new reports, refreshes fail, APIs evolve, and leadership asks new questions.

  • Internal teams have more BI requests than they can deliver
  • Power BI issues are handled reactively instead of proactively
  • Data pipelines or APIs fail and ownership is unclear
  • Reports need continuous changes as the business evolves
  • New systems need to be integrated into existing reporting
  • Documentation is incomplete or outdated
  • Critical knowledge sits with one employee or contractor
  • The organisation needs specialist skills occasionally, not full-time

What ongoing support can include

  1. Power BI Development

    New dashboards, report enhancements, DAX, modelling, visual improvements, and performance optimisation.

  2. Data Engineering

    New pipelines, database work, transformations, source onboarding, and data-quality fixes.

  3. Integration Support

    API maintenance, connector changes, new system integrations, and troubleshooting.

  4. Platform Administration

    Power BI Service, workspaces, gateways, refreshes, access, RLS, deployment, and operational support.

  5. Automation Support

    Workflow maintenance, process improvements, alerts, scheduled tasks, and new automation opportunities.

  6. AI Enhancements

    Improvements to chatbots, RAG, agentic workflows, prompts, knowledge sources, and connected AI processes.

  7. Troubleshooting

    Investigate failed refreshes, data mismatches, slow reports, broken pipelines, or unexpected results.

  8. Advisory & Roadmap

    Help prioritise the next reporting, data, automation, or AI improvements based on business need.

Engagement levels

Choose the level of ongoing support

All levels are proactive: monitoring and maintenance happen before users report a problem. Scope and pricing are agreed per engagement.

  1. Level 1

    Essential Support

    A stable environment that needs someone accountable for it.

    • Refresh and pipeline monitoring
    • Failure investigation and fixes
    • User questions and access requests
    • Regular health checks
  2. Level 2

    Managed Analytics

    Reporting that keeps changing with the business.

    • Everything in Essential Support
    • Planned enhancements and new reports
    • Performance optimisation
    • Data-quality issue resolution
    • Workspace and governance administration
  3. Level 3

    Embedded Analytics Team

    A continuing roadmap without hiring a full team.

    • Everything in Managed Analytics
    • Dedicated capacity each month
    • Roadmap planning with your stakeholders
    • Data engineering and new integrations
    • Documentation and knowledge transfer

A broader support model than a typical Power BI retainer

One partner across the full data-to-decision environment

Many support arrangements fail because one vendor owns the dashboard, another owns the database, and nobody owns the integration between them. Datazeb can support the connected environment across: This reduces the number of hand-offs when an issue crosses multiple layers.

  1. 01Source Systems
  2. 02Data Pipelines
  3. 03Databases
  4. 04BI / Reporting
  5. 05AI & Automation

In detail

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Typical monthly support requests

  • Add a new KPI or dashboard page
  • Connect a new API or business system
  • Investigate why a refresh or scheduled job failed
  • Improve a slow Power BI model
  • Update row-level security or user access
  • Resolve differences between report totals and source systems
  • Change business rules or DAX calculations
  • Create a new database view or transformation
  • Modify an automation workflow
  • Add a new knowledge source to an AI assistant
  • Document an existing process or data model
  • Review whether a new request should be solved with BI, automation, or AI
Proactive improvement

Support should do more than wait for something to break

Where the engagement allows, Datazeb can help identify improvements before they become urgent. This shifts the relationship from reactive technical support toward continuous analytics improvement.

  • Performance and model optimisation opportunities
  • Fragile manual reporting processes
  • Repeated support issues that should be automated
  • Data quality patterns
  • Unused or duplicated reports
  • Integration dependencies and failure risks
  • Governance and access gaps
  • New AI or automation opportunities grounded in existing processes
Environment onboarding

Start by understanding what already exists

Before taking ongoing responsibility, Datazeb should map the current environment so support does not begin with assumptions. The output can become a shared operating picture for future support and improvement.

  • Data sources and business systems
  • Databases and pipelines
  • Power BI workspaces, reports, datasets, gateways, and refreshes
  • APIs and integrations
  • Automation workflows
  • Access and security model
  • Known issues and recurring failures
  • Documentation and ownership
  • Current backlog and business priorities
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Service continuity and knowledge retention

Reduce dependency on one person knowing how everything works

Analytics environments often become risky when critical knowledge exists only in one employee, contractor, or developer's head. A managed support relationship can improve continuity through:

  • Structured documentation
  • Shared issue and change history
  • Repeatable deployment practices
  • Clear ownership of recurring tasks
  • Knowledge transfer to client teams
  • Documented source-system and data dependencies
Support for internal teams

Add specialist capability without replacing your team

Datazeb can work alongside BI developers, analysts, IT teams, operations teams, finance teams, or external technology partners. The goal can be to remove a backlog, provide deeper technical expertise, cover a capability gap, or accelerate delivery while internal staff retain ownership.

  • Backlog acceleration
  • Senior technical escalation
  • Architecture review
  • Complex DAX / SQL / API support
  • Temporary capacity during busy periods
  • Peer review and quality assurance
  • Mentoring and knowledge transfer
Service levels and response expectations

Set expectations clearly

Commercial proposals can define: This creates confidence without overpromising.

  • Monthly capacity or support hours
  • Priority categories
  • Expected response windows
  • Planned development cadence
  • Escalation path
  • Availability across agreed time zones
  • What is included vs separately scoped

Technologies Datazeb can support

  • Power BI – Desktop, Service, Report Server
  • Microsoft Fabric and Azure ecosystem
  • SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL
  • Python data pipelines and scripts
  • REST APIs and custom integrations
  • AWS environments where relevant
  • Power Automate and n8n
  • ERP, CRM, accounting, POS, healthcare, and other business platforms
  • RAG, AI assistants, chatbots, and agentic workflows

How managed support works

  • Assess
  • Onboard
  • Prioritise
  • Deliver
  • Improve

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Do we need to have an existing Datazeb project to use managed support?

No. Datazeb can review and take over an existing environment where access, documentation, and technical conditions allow.

Can you support our existing Power BI reports?

Yes. We can maintain, improve, troubleshoot, and extend existing Power BI environments.

Can you support data pipelines and APIs as well as dashboards?

Yes. Managed support can cover databases, integrations, pipelines, APIs, automation, and selected AI solutions in addition to BI.

Do you work with internal teams?

Yes. Datazeb can operate as an extension of internal BI, IT, finance, operations, or analytics teams.

Is support available as a monthly retainer?

Yes. Monthly retained support is one engagement option. Dedicated capacity and project-plus-support models can also be considered.

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Give your data environment somewhere reliable to go when it needs attention

If your team needs ongoing BI development, data engineering, troubleshooting, integration support, automation, or specialist advice, Datazeb can provide flexible capability without the cost and complexity of building every skill internally.