Since its launch, Power BI has established itself as one of the best business intelligence platforms. But despite the low-code approach adopted by Microsoft, Power BI also needs experience and skill to be used correctly and obtain a return on its investment. For companies where these skills are lacking, the solution is to rely on dedicated consulting services. In this article, we'll dive into what a Power BI consulting service specifically offers, why all companies can benefit from it, and how a team of consultants like those at Dev4Side can help their customers.
The highly data-oriented nature of any company makes knowledge of business intelligence essential to ensure the growth of its business.
In fact, more and more companies are using tools such as Microsoft Power BI, to transform data into useful information.
However, to successfully implement this solution, buying a license is not enough: you need the right skills, or you could run the great risk of seeing your investment totally wasted.
Counseling is often the way to avoid this end.
When we talk about consulting on Power BI, we mean a service that includes strategic organization activities, implementation and continuous and long-term assistance in the use of the platform and its countless functionalities within an organization.
Thanks to the collaboration with expert consultants (such as those that can be boasted of the Dev4Side team), companies have the opportunity to navigate their data with a precise route, obtaining the insights they need to identify trends, critical issues and areas for improvement to continue growing.
Consultants help to integrate Power BI with existing systems, to create customized reports, to train internal teams and to provide the reporting useful to achieve the objectives established together, allowing a more effective use of the analytical tools in which the company has invested.
Power BI is the next generation business analysis tool integrated into Microsoft's application solutions, which includes various technologies originally developed for Excel, such as Power Pivot and Power Query. Power BI exceeds the existing capabilities of Excel, adding functionality to create interactive visualizations and dashboards rich in indicators (KPIs).
Power BI is part of Microsoft's Power Platform, which also includes Power Apps and Power Automate. Created as “low-code” tools, these applications help companies analyze and visualize data, design solutions, automate processes and create chatbots without the use of code.
With Power BI, specifically, it is possible to extract and transform data from different sources, combining them into a single data model that can be used to create reports. Data from multiple sources can be programmed for automatic updating or on request.
Designed for professionals with different levels of data knowledge, the Power BI dashboard can report data in a wide range of styles, including charts, maps, diagrams, scatter plots, and more. The 'AI Insights' functionality, on the other hand, uses artificial intelligence to find insights within datasets for users.
Power BI is comprised of three main components:
Over the years, Microsoft has added numerous data analysis features to Power BI, including:
Dev4Side Software specializes in creating customized reports through Microsoft Power BI, transforming complex data into intuitive dashboards and reports to support informed business decisions.
Operating vertically across the entire Microsoft Power Platform ecosystem, we have developed excellent expertise in Power BI, allowing us to offer business intelligence solutions that highlight critical insights and promote operational efficiency.
Contact us to transform business information into concrete actions.
Consulting services for Microsoft Power BI are complete professional interventions, offered by experts who have the skills to support companies in implementing, customizing and optimizing reports built with Power BI.
These services also include updating existing Power BI systems, to solve problems, fill gaps and seize new opportunities for analyzing business information.
Power BI was the first tool to introduce a truly agile approach in the field of business intelligence and, even today, it represents the only platform capable of keeping this promise. The expensive, slow and often ineffective projects that were often necessary for this type of analysis can now be replaced by targeted and rapid interventions, with the guarantee of generating real value instead of slowing down the business.
The best advisors are able to deliver these results to their clients.
This means filling roles once distributed among several specialized figures.
Consultants like those at Dev4Side can help companies:
There are many reasons that may push a company to invest in a specialized consulting service.
For the sake of brevity, we have identified five main reasons why many companies decide to rely on an experienced partner in order to develop suitable solutions for them through the Microsoft Business Intelligence platform.
Let's see them together below.
Collecting large volumes of data from different sources can be a challenging task. Often, this process leads to lengthy and error-prone manual reporting procedures.
Data analysis needs are repeated at regular intervals, requiring the intervention of professionals able to filter information and quickly access useful data with minimal manual effort.
In addition, consultants can develop solutions that allow access to data from different sources through automatic connections, saving time and reducing the effort needed to obtain the data that the company needs to make the right decisions.
When internal teams find themselves using Power BI to generate reports, they often find it difficult to search for and isolate specific data sets into large amounts of information. The amount and complexity of business data make it difficult to precisely identify what is needed, especially in the absence of an organized structure and adequate filters.
A consultant can greatly simplify this process, configuring effective data models, creating customized views, and implementing search and filtering tools based on the real needs of the company. In this way, teams can access information relevant to their activities faster, while increasing the quality of the insights extracted.
It is always advisable to base your analyses on high-quality data, as inaccurate or unreliable data can generate misleading insights, which in turn lead to the definition of incorrect strategies.
A consultant prioritizes relevant information, excluding superfluous or harmful data sets that could compromise business decisions and negatively affect the productivity of departments, teams, and individual workers.
Thanks to consolidated experience, consultants such as those who make up the Dev4Side team are able to easily identify any problems related to data quality and propose appropriate solutions to correct them with minimum effort on the part of the company.
Here, these experts support the company in cleaning and preparing data for analysis, using data profiling tools to remove null values, anomalies and other critical issues that could lead to wrong conclusions.
Insufficient data protection makes Power BI solutions vulnerable to cyberattacks, unauthorized access, and viruses. This can result in serious financial losses, reputational damage and, in the worst cases, loss of customer trust.
Relying on a consultant allows you to proactively address these critical issues, especially through tools such as Azure Active Directory for authentication and Power BI credentials to securely manage access to resources.
Thanks to their experience, it is possible to:
Trends evolve rapidly based on customer needs and desires.
If you're not ready to adapt, it becomes difficult to stand out from the competition.
A Power BI consultant helps you make timely and informed decisions, identifying and interpreting emerging trends before they become dominant. This way, there is no risk of falling behind market expectations or losing opportunities related to customer demand.
This figure can then provide support in monitoring both internal company processes and those of competitors, helping to identify the changes taking place and to maintain a competitive advantage.
For example, specialized consultants can take advantage of the artificial intelligence capabilities integrated in Power BI to predict future scenarios, from the need to hire new staff to the review of operational requirements, to the evaluation of new investments in technology.
So, there are many reasons to choose a consulting service specialized in Power BI.
Now let's see what are the reasons for choosing the Dev4Side team.
With more than 15 years of experience in using the Microsoft software ecosystem (certified as a Microsoft Gold Partner) and in the development of customized software and business applications, Dev4Side offers a consulting service suitable for all companies that want to maximize investment in Microsoft solutions (Power BI and more) and successfully digitize internal processes.
With internationally certified vertical skills and with hundreds of successfully implemented Power BI projects, we can transform business data into reports and dashboards useful to improve the entire decision-making process and, consequently, to provide the organization with the information it needs to define the right growth strategies.
From design to implementation (and with the guarantee of support in the post-launch phase), our team can help any company to work effectively with large volumes of data, thanks to the features provided by Power BI.
Data is a precious resource, but only when you have the right tools to transform it into insights. Power BI immediately established itself as one of the best tools for business intelligence operations and data analysis in the business landscape, but you need to know how to use it to get the most out of your investment.
If the company lacks skills, it is necessary to rely on experienced professionals and, among these, we cannot fail to mention our team.
We refer to dedicated page to learn more about what we can offer to successfully adopt all the tools of the Microsoft Power Platform, among which, of course, Power BI stands out.
Consulting for Power BI is a professional service that supports companies in the use of the Microsoft Power BI platform, offering strategic, technical and operational support. It includes activities such as integration with existing systems, the creation of customized reports, team training and ongoing assistance, with the aim of adapting the platform to specific business needs and obtaining maximum value from data.
Consulting for Power BI serves to make the platform truly effective for the company, intervening on various aspects: it simplifies manual reporting, improves the accessibility and quality of data, suggests the most suitable license, guarantees information security, integrates Power BI with other business tools and promotes a data-driven approach at all levels of the organization.
It is useful to consult a Power BI consultant when reporting processes are slow and manual, when it is difficult to find relevant data within large volumes of information, when the quality of the data is not reliable, or when adequate tools are lacking to protect and govern the data. It is also a strategic choice for those who want to anticipate market changes thanks to predictive analysis or for those who need to scale the use of the platform in a manner consistent with business growth.
A Power BI consulting service allows you to optimize the use of the platform, speeding up the generation of insights, improving business decisions and reducing costs related to data management. It allows overcoming the limitations of traditional reporting tools, introducing modern, integrated and customized solutions that bring immediate and scalable benefits over time.
Yes, Dev4Side offers a Power BI consulting service based on more than 15 years of experience in the Microsoft ecosystem. As a Microsoft Gold Partner, the Modern Work team supports companies every step of the way: from design to the creation of analytical solutions, to post-launch support. Dev4Side consulting makes it possible to transform business data into a concrete tool for continuous improvement and competitive advantage.
The Modern Apps team responds swiftly to IT needs where software development is the core component, including solutions that integrate artificial intelligence. The technical staff is trained specifically in delivering software projects based on Microsoft technology stacks and has expertise in managing both agile and long-term projects.
