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Power BI Consulting Services

Microsoft Power BI is an essential tool for gathering, analyzing data, and deriving informed decisions from the obtained insights. However, despite its capabilities, many organizations encounter challenges in fully harnessing its potential. This is where our Power BI consulting services come into play.

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Unlock the Full Potential of Microsoft Power BI With Multishoring

We can help you unleash the full potential of Microsoft Power BI by providing tailored consulting services to cater to each company’s unique requirements. These include:

Our Power BI Team

In a Power BI implementation project, various roles contribute to the successful deployment and utilization of the platform. Some key roles in our Power BI team include:

Understanding Your Requirements

  • Business Analyst – Gathers requirements from stakeholders and translates them into Power BI solutions that align with business needs.

Delivering your requirements with domain expertise

  • Data Analyst/Engineer – Cleans, transforms, and prepares data for analysis within Power BI, ensuring data quality and accuracy.
  • Power BI Developer – Designs and builds reports, dashboards, and interactive visualizations using Power BI’s features and functionalities. Also, designs the data model architecture within Power BI to ensure efficient and meaningful data relationships.
  • ETL Developer – Designs and develops ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes to move and transform data from source systems to Power BI.
  • Data Scientist – Utilizes advanced analytics and statistical techniques within Power BI to derive insights from complex datasets.

Ensuring brand Identity and ease of use

  • UX/UI Designer – Designs user-friendly and visually appealing dashboards, optimizing the user experience for data consumers.

Ensuring security and reliability

  • Security Officer – Ensures that data security and compliance measures are implemented within Power BI solutions.
  • Quality Assurance (QA) Analyst – Tests and validates reports and dashboards to ensure accuracy and functionality.
  • IT Administrator – Manages Power BI infrastructure, including security settings, access controls, and data governance.

Making sure all Is done on time and within budget

  • Project Manager – Oversees the project’s timeline, resources, and goals, ensuring successful implementation and delivery.

Work Environments Utilized in Our Power BI Projects

We employ the following work environments in Power BI projects to streamline development, enhance collaboration, ensure quality, and facilitate the smooth deployment of impactful data solutions.

  • Multiple dev environments

    Power BI projects often encompass various development stages. The incorporation of multiple development environments permits teams to work on distinct features concurrently without disrupting ongoing tasks. This fosters collaboration and expedites the development process.

  • Integration environment

    The integration environment is where different components of a Power BI solution are combined and tested together. This ensures that individual elements work harmoniously as a unified solution before proceeding to further testing stages.

  • UAT environment

    The User Acceptance Testing (UAT) environment is where stakeholders and end-users evaluate the Power BI solution’s functionality, usability, and alignment with business requirements. It provides an opportunity for feedback and validation before moving to the production stage.

  • Production Environment

    The production environment is the final destination for a Power BI solution. It is where the fully tested and validated solution is deployed for use by the intended audience. The solution in the production environment should be stable, secure, and reliable.

Go Beyond Power BI With Our Comprehensive Support for Data Warehousing

At the core of our Power BI offering lies the recognition that it represents the culmination of your data warehousing solutions. That’s why we are committed to delivering comprehensive support as part of our Power BI offering across the entirety of your data warehousing ecosystem. This support includes:

Data collection and integration

  • Identifying data sources across various systems
  • Extracting, transforming, and loading (ETL) data into a unified repository
  • Standardizing and harmonizing data across various sources

Data strategy and consultation

  • Understanding organizational goals and objectives
  • Crafting a tailored data strategy aligned with business needs
  • Defining key performance indicators (KPIs) and success metrics

Creation of tabular data models

  • Designing a robust data model that optimizes query performance
  • Constructing efficient tabular data models for effective analysis
  • Shaping data to fit the requirements of Power BI

Data warehouse portal creation

  • Establishing a dedicated portal for managing data that resides outside domain-specific systems (often maintained in Excel)
  • Enabling authorized users to access and manage data, supported by an approval workflow

Building data warehouses from scratch

  • Identifying data sources and domains for comprehensive coverage
  • Developing data warehouses from the ground up

Cloud migration for data warehouses

  • Seamlessly migrating on-premises data warehouses to cloud services
  • Transitioning and evolving data warehouses within cloud environments.

Advanced analytics and predictive modeling

  • Incorporating machine learning and predictive analytics
  • Uncovering hidden patterns, trends, and anomalies in the data
  • Enhancing decision-making with actionable insights.

Performance optimization and monitoring

  • Continuously optimizing query performance for faster results
  • Monitoring data loads, transformations, and report usage
  • Ensuring responsiveness and reliability of the data warehouse

Draw on our Deep Expertise In Microsoft BI Technologies

We give you access to Power BI consultants with competencies certified by Microsoft. They have expertise in all major Microsoft BI technologies like:

Personalized Power BI Solutions Across Various Industries

We have years of experience working with clients across various industries, and we know how to create Power BI-based data warehousing solutions that can address the unique challenges and requirements of each industry, including in the following areas:

Testimonials
“Through all these years of cooperation, Multishoring has proven to be a very reliable and competent IT partner for us.”

Tomaž Praprotnik

Pernod Ricard EMEA-LATAM HQ,
Head of Technology & Architecture

“My team working with Multishoring managed to reduce our IT spending by 60%, keeping the same competency level. I also got to know Multishoring as a loyal and easy-to-work with partner.”

Fredrick Olund,

IT Director at HL Display

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We are one of the largest and most experienced IT outsourcing companies in Poland

High-quality IT services thanks to well-defined processes

Custom software development process based on Agile and DevOps principles

Easy and flexible access to over 3,000 developers in one of the best countries to outsource from (Poland), including Power BI and data warehousing consultants

500 experienced consultants and senior developers (including those with specialization in Power BI) located across the whole U.S.A. and other major Western countries

Like-your-own-team experience – the model of cooperation with personal meetings whenever needed ensures that you feel our developers as your own on-site team, even if most of the work is done remotely

Hire the Best Power BI Experts

Hire us and rely on a professional team of Power BI consultants who will assist you in delivering all of your Business Intelligence projects predictably, using best practices, on time, and meeting all of your business expectations. Cooperate smartly with them based on a nearshoring or offshoring basis. With years of experience, dozens of Power BI developers, and mature processes, we are well-equipped to handle your project needs. Contact us for a proposal!

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FAQ

What is Microsoft Power BI?

Microsoft Power BI is a versatile and scalable platform that offers both self-service and enterprise business intelligence (BI) solutions. With Power BI, you can easily visualize data from any data source and create customized reports that showcase your key performance indicators (KPIs) and brand. Additionally, Power BI utilizes AI-powered algorithms to provide fast and accurate answers to your business questions, even when using conversational language.

When used in conjunction with Azure and Office, Power BI can extract maximum value from your technology and data. By integrating seamlessly with Microsoft’s trusted technologies, Power BI allows you to utilize all of your data efficiently. Furthermore, Power BI offers a large and constantly growing library of over 500 free connectors, enabling you to connect directly to hundreds of cloud and on-premises data sources, including Dynamics 365, Azure SQL Database, Salesforce, Excel, and SharePoint.

What are the services in Power BI?

Power BI is a tool that analyzes and visualizes raw data, enabling users to make data-driven decisions by combining business analytics, data visualization, and best practices. The Power BI architecture is a service built on top of Azure, and it can connect to multiple data sources.

Using Power BI Desktop, users can create reports and data visualizations based on the dataset. Additionally, the Power BI gateway is connected to on-premise data sources to continuously obtain data for reporting and analytics.

The Microsoft Power BI services refer to the cloud-based services used to publish Power BI reports and data visualizations. These services enable users to store and share their data visualizations with others, as well as collaborate and work together in real-time.

Is Power BI good for data analyses?

The Power BI platform is a top data analysis tool on the market, known for its user-friendly interface and robust data modeling capabilities, which allows for efficient implementation of business data models. Additionally, Power BI enables multidimensional data analysis expressions, leveraging the powerful Direct Query feature to provide live analysis of transactional data. It also provides a unique transition to real-time analysis.

Microsoft Azure offers users the ability to use Azure Stream Analytics to enhance the publication time of Power BI applications. Stream Analytics and Power BI are a seamless combination that enables real-time data analysis. With these tools, organizations can stream data directly from Azure Stream Analytics to Power BI for analysis.

The aforementioned tools offer fast data processing and multiple options for application publishing. Embedded analytics is a cutting-edge approach to building analytical solutions, and nesting Power BI is another feature to consider. To fully utilize this service and share embedded Power BI dashboards and reports, one must consider Power BI Embedded or Power BI Premium services in addition to a Power BI Pro account.

What are the key features and benefits of Power BI for data analysis?

Microsoft Power BI offers several key features and benefits that make it a leading tool for data analysis. Here are some of its notable features:

  • Close integration with SQL Server and Azure: Power BI offers a close integration with SQL Server analysis services, which allows users to build robust and reusable data models. Users can also use Azure Analysis Services in the cloud for this purpose. Reporting can be done by using live connection with a multidimensional database with automatic refresh enabled.
  • Fast implementation and lower total cost of ownership (TCO): Power BI provides a fast implementation process, with the first report creation taking just around one month from the zero point to production implementation. Additionally, Power BI has much lower costs compared to its competitors, which makes it more accessible for smaller companies to implement and use it in daily reporting and data analysis.
  • Availability in different geographic locations: Power BI services are available in different geographic locations, with each data center offering the same level of security, privacy, compliance, and transparency as the global version of Power BI. Additionally, Power BI has introduced a version that can be installed on-premises, called Power BI Report Server, which gives users the possibility to connect to on-premises data sources and publish reports and dashboards across the organization.
  • Power BI data import with a wide range of data connectors: Power BI has the ability to connect to nearly any application or data source, with hundreds of options available. This includes resources located on the cloud or on-premises, such as Excel spreadsheets, GitHub, Mail Chimp, SharePoint, and Google Analytics.
  • Monthly version updates: The Power BI products are updated nearly every month with new features and functions, which ensures users have access to the latest Microsoft resources.

Overall, Power BI is a versatile tool that offers a fast implementation process, lower costs, and a wide range of data connectors. Its close integration with SQL Server and Azure and availability in different geographic locations make it a reliable and secure tool for data analysis.

What are the other benefits of Power BI?

Here are some additional benefits of Power BI:

  • Power BI has a QA feature that allows users to ask natural language questions and receive quick answers with charts and tables.
  • No programming language is required for using Power BI. It has drag-and-drop features and integrates easily with Office 365 and Microsoft Teams.
  • Power BI is user-friendly, especially for those who are familiar with Excel.
  • It has an easy API and can be embedded into different applications.
  • Power BI allows users to create personalized dashboards combining on-premises and cloud data for enterprise-wide monitoring.

What does a Power BI consultant do?

A Power BI consultant is an expert in the Microsoft Power BI business analytics tool. They offer guidance and solutions to help companies analyze and visualize data and share insights across their organizations. Power BI consultants can assist with tasks such as:

  • Determining the requirements for a Power BI implementation
  • Assisting with Power BI implementation and development
  • Configuring and upgrading Power BI
  • Creating data models and dashboards
  • Providing training to staff on how to effectively use Power BI solutions
  • Troubleshooting and debugging issues that arise with Power BI

Multishoring is a certified Microsoft partner with dozens of experienced Power BI consultants who can provide 24/7 consulting services. If you require Microsoft Power BI services, please do not hesitate to contact us.

When should you use Power BI consulting services?

If you lack internal expertise or resources to implement and effectively use Microsoft Power BI, it may be beneficial to use Power BI consulting services and seek assistance from a Power BI consulting team. A Power BI consulting company can provide comprehensive services, including Power BI consulting, integration, development, and post-installation support and troubleshooting.

By engaging with a Power BI consulting team, you can gain access to experienced professionals who can help you maximize the benefits of Power BI and enable your organization to make data-driven decisions. Whether you are looking to implement Power BI for the first time or require ongoing support and maintenance, a Power BI consulting company can provide the expertise you need to succeed.

Google Data Studio vs Power BI – which is better?

Google Data Studio and Microsoft Power BI are both professional, accurate, and precise data visualization tools. Power BI has a user interface similar to other Microsoft Suite applications like Word, PowerPoint, and Excel, while Data Studio’s interface closely resembles Google Analytics.

Power BI has an advantage in its ability to perform complex data transformations. It has more robust data transformation capabilities compared to Data Studio, which only allows blending data from different sources using a JOIN key. This means that Data Studio assumes the data is clean and ready for visualization.

However, Google is continuously improving Data Studio to compete with Microsoft. It is likely that Data Studio’s data transformation capabilities will improve in the near future.

In summary, the choice between Google Data Studio and Power BI depends on your specific needs and preferences. If your data requires complex transformations, Power BI may be the better choice. However, if you are already using Google Analytics and prefer a similar interface, Data Studio may be a more suitable option.