Business intelligence (BI) is the science and the art of collecting and analysing data to support business decisions and improve performance. It can help you gain insights into your customers, competitors, markets, operations, and more. However, traditional BI tools can be complex, costly, and time-consuming to use, requiring specialised skills and infrastructure.

Our inhouse BI team can not only bring you their wealth of expertise in the area but also help you gain this level of insight everyday with Power BI. This is a cloud-based platform from Microsoft that offers a simple, fast, and affordable way to access and visualise your data. Power BI is part of the Microsoft 365 suite, which means it can easily integrate with applications you are most likely already using such as Excel, SharePoint, Teams, and Outlook. Power BI also

With Focus IT and Power BI, we can provide you with an affordable way to create stunning and interactive dashboards and reports that can help you discover and share insights across your organisation. You can also use natural language queries to ask questions and get answers from your data. Moreover, you can access your data and reports from any device, anywhere, anytime, with the Power BI mobile app.

Here are some of the key benefits for your business:

Improved data quality and accuracy: Power BI allows you to connect and transform your data from multiple sources, using features such as Power Query and Power Automate. You can also use data modelling and calculations to enrich and standardise your data, using the DAX (Data Analysis Expressions) language. Power BI also ensures that your data is secure and compliant, with features such as encryption, auditing, and governance.

Making data easy to understand: Having lots of data is great but it is of no help unless you can understand what it is telling you. We can help you use Power BI to explore and analyse your data in various ways, using features such as filters, slicers, drill-downs, and drill-throughs. We can use it to customise a wide range of visuals, such as charts, maps, tables, gauges, and more. This may sound complex, but we can help you use Power BI to set it up just how you need it, so the insights you want are available straight away.

Increased data collaboration and sharing: Now that you have the data insights, Power BI allows you to share and distribute your data and reports with your colleagues and stakeholders, using features such as publish to web, export to PDF, and embed in PowerPoint. You can also use Power BI to create and join workspaces, where you can collaborate and co-author content with your team members.

Reduced data costs and complexity: Ultimately, it can help you save time and money, by eliminating the need for multiple tools and platforms, reducing hardware and maintenance costs, and simplifying data management and administration.

We are a team of experts who can help you with Power BI development, customisation, migration, integration, support, and training. Get in touch today to find out more.