Business intelligence should help you understand what is happening, why it matters, and where to act. Microsoft Power BI brings that information into interactive reports and dashboards your team can use.
MBATech specialises in Power BI consulting, from defining reporting requirements to building the data foundations, models, and reports behind the finished solution. We combine business understanding with hands-on SQL, data warehousing, and analytics development.
Whether you are starting your first dashboard or improving an existing Power BI environment, we can help you turn disconnected information into useful reporting.
Build reporting around the measures that matter to your business:
- Sales, margins, and profitability by product, customer, or location.
- Expenses, budgets, and financial performance over time.
- Customer activity, referrals, and service demand.
- Inventory, purchasing, and operational productivity.
- Receivables, payables, and outstanding balances.
- Performance against agreed targets and business objectives.
We work with you to define calculations, validate results, and make the reports understandable to the people using them.
Torture the data, and it will confess to anything.Attributed to Ronald Coase
Good reporting starts with clear definitions and honest interpretation. We check assumptions, reconcile results, and make the context behind the numbers visible.
You can start with one reporting need and a focused scope. We help you choose the data sources, modelling approach, and Power BI setup that fit your users, budget, and refresh requirements.
A data warehouse or Microsoft Fabric platform can support more complex needs, but the design should follow the work it needs to do. We build a practical foundation that can develop alongside your business.
Power BI Dashboards & Reports
Data Modelling, DAX & Power Query
Data Warehousing, Integration & ETL
Automated Refresh & Report Delivery
Power BI Performance & Existing Report Improvements
Power BI Setup, Access & Sharing
Training & Ongoing Support
Power BI Dashboards & Reports
Create clear, interactive reporting for management and operational teams.
- Translate business questions into report requirements and KPIs.
- Design executive dashboards and detailed operational reports.
- Add filters, drill-through pages, and contextual tooltips.
- Develop financial, sales, customer, and operational views.
- Refine layouts through user feedback and practical testing.
Data Modelling, DAX & Power Query
Build the model behind the visuals so calculations behave consistently and reports remain maintainable.
- Design Power BI semantic models with appropriate fact and dimension tables.
- Develop DAX measures for KPIs, comparisons, and time-based analysis.
- Prepare and transform data with Power Query.
- Review relationships, date tables, and filter behaviour.
- Validate totals, business rules, and calculations across reporting scenarios.
Data Warehousing, Integration & ETL
Give Power BI a dependable supply of prepared data from across your business.
- Bring together ERP, CRM, finance, and operational data.
- Build ETL and ELT processes using SQL, APIs, files, and suitable platform tools.
- Design SQL Server data warehouses and Microsoft Fabric warehouses or lakehouses.
- Use bronze, silver, and gold layers where a medallion approach fits.
- Establish validation, historical data handling, and repeatable loading processes.
For broader database support and application integrations, explore our Data Services.
Automated Refresh & Report Delivery
Reduce recurring report preparation and make it clear how current the information is.
- Configure scheduled refreshes, data connections, and gateways where needed.
- Plan incremental refresh where supported and appropriate.
- Coordinate upstream pipeline schedules with report refresh requirements.
- Set up report distribution and subscriptions suited to your licences and audience.
- Establish refresh monitoring and procedures for investigating failures.
Power BI Performance & Existing Report Improvements
Improve reports that are slow, difficult to maintain, or producing unexpected results.
- Review model structure, DAX, Power Query, and visual design.
- Investigate slow refreshes and report interactions.
- Identify unnecessary data volume and duplicated transformations.
- Review source queries and storage choices against the workload.
- Test changes for performance and calculation accuracy.
Power BI Setup, Access & Sharing
Make reporting available to the right people with a clear approach to access and administration.
- Plan workspaces, apps, and report distribution.
- Configure permissions and row-level security where appropriate.
- Review licensing and capacity requirements.
- Establish ownership and a process for testing and releasing changes.
- Test access using the intended viewer roles.
Training & Ongoing Support
Help your team use the solution confidently and keep it useful as needs change.
- Provide practical report walkthroughs and user guidance.
- Document key measures, data sources, and refresh dependencies.
- Support enhancements, troubleshooting, and model maintenance.
- Review usage and prioritise the next reporting improvements.
For wider data ownership, master data management, and protection needs, see our AI & Data Governance services.