Business Intelligence
Gain Powerful Insights
Business Intelligence (BI) plays a crucial role in helping organizations gain valuable insights and make strategic decisions. Unfortunately, many organizations struggle to make sense of their data, which limits their competitive advantage.
To effectively use BI, data needs to be thoughtfully organized. Done properly you can tell compelling stories, drive accurate planning, and gain operational improvements, leading to better decision-making.
There are three essential aspects of BI that make this happen:
- Data Integration: Gathering data from various sources, including databases, spreadsheets, and external sources.
- Data Analysis: Using techniques like querying, data mining, and statistical analysis to identify trends, patterns, and relationships in the data.
- Data Visualization: Presenting insights in visually compelling and easy-to-understand formats, such as charts, graphs, and dashboards.
Improve Business Performance
Data Analytics & Reporting highlights key metrics, trends, and performance indicators, enabling stakeholders to understand the current state of the business and make data-driven decisions.
Effective Business Reporting requires a process to capture the data, a system to efficiently store information, and a mechanism to present data clearly and concisely.
At 425 Consulting, our Business Intelligence team specializes in maximizing the value of data within organizations. We take a consultative approach to develop tailored reporting and dashboards.
Our tailored solutions allow multiple departments to record, access, and share data in real-time, which fosters improved collaboration, decision-making, and overall business performance.
Microsoft Power BI
Our Business Intelligence and Reporting team utilizes Power BI, a comprehensive suite of tools from Microsoft, to help clients analyze and visualize data from various sources. It can help organizations achieve sustainable growth by enabling data-driven decision-making, improving operational efficiency, enhancing customer insights, fostering innovation, and reducing costs.
Microsoft Power Platform
Delivering Modern Business Applications
The Power Platform
Microsoft’s Power Platform is a suite of tools designed to empower individuals and organizations to analyze data, automate processes, and create solutions to business problems without requiring extensive coding skills. It provides the platform for rapid development of custom apps to keep up with your organization’s unique needs. Data can be accessed and stored from multiple sources and users enjoy the modern, responsive design that runs seamlessly in desktop browsers or on mobile devices.
Learn more about the components of the Microsoft Power Platform below and how it provides a comprehensive solution for data analysis, application development, process automation, and customer engagement, helping organizations to increase productivity, agility, and innovation.
Power BI is the “secret sauce” behind robust reporting and dashboards. It can connect with multiple data sources that allows a data model to comingle disconnected data. Reports and dashboards are published online using the Power BI service, where users have access to reports 24/7 on virtually any desktop or mobile device.
Power Apps is a suite of apps, services, and connectors that support a “low code” development environment. Applications can be built in hours, and not days or weeks. When it comes to extending your existing applications, or creating custom applications to solve unique business problems, the possibilities are endless.
Power Automate provides business flows to streamline repetitive tasks and create paperless processes. Boost efficiency by turning manual tasks into automated workflows, allowing your people more time to focus on what is important.
Power Virtual Agents are development tools to create AI powered, conversational bots to engage customers across websites, mobile apps, Facebook, Microsoft Teams, or any channel supported by the Azure Bot Framework. Power Virtual Agents can automate customer interactions, from simple answers to questions to resolving issues that require complex conversations.
Power BI is the “secret sauce” behind robust reporting and dashboards. It can connect with multiple data sources that allows a data model to comingle disconnected data. Reports and dashboards are published online using the Power BI service, where users have access to reports 24/7 on virtually any desktop or mobile device.