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What is Power BI

Turn Data into Decisions with Microsoft Power BI

We deliver interactive dashboards and predictive analytics on Azure and Microsoft Fabric, removing silos and giving real-time visibility for faster, clearer decisions.

Understand the foundation

Unlock Insights with Aureus Intelligence AI

Although every business collects data, only a few can actually make it work for them. To gain a competitive advantage in this regard, Aureus Intelligence AI has specialised in Power BI consulting to reshape tech solutions.

Our Mission

Our mission is to transform and guide you in harnessing the full potential of your business intelligence. With a focused consulting service that’s built to last, our team develops answers that move beyond spreadsheets and static reports.

Tailored Approach

It’s clear that no single dashboard is guaranteed to work everywhere. That’s where Aureus comes in. Rather than push a generic template, we redefine data analytics with architecture grounded in Microsoft’s secure cloud ecosystem.

Empowering Decisions

From executive dashboards to predictive models, Aureus provides you with the visibility and confidence to make truly data-driven decisions.

For organisations ready to compete with insight, Aureus turns every number into a story worth acting on.

End-to-end expertise

What is Microsoft Power BI?

Microsoft Power BI is a flagship component of the Microsoft Power Platform that turns raw data into clear, interactive insight. It connects to your data sources, models information for accuracy and performance, and visualises results so teams can make decisions with confidence.

Integrated by Design

Power BI works with spreadsheets, cloud services, CRMs and databases, allowing you to use Excel, SQL, cloud databases and APIs in one place. By doing so, the platform can guide strategy in real time.

Unlike legacy reporting systems, Power BI offers intuitive interfaces and drag-and-drop tools for stunning data visualisation. Meaning it’s renowned in the market for creating compelling designs that reveal the best patterns and for the exploration of deeper data analytics.

360°

Data View

Real-Time

Refreshes

45%

Faster Decisions

AI-Powered

Forecasting

How Power BI Delivers Value

Our Power BI approach helps you centralise data visualisation, analytics and governance under one platform. This approach ensures that your organisation gains access to powerful, collaborative insight.

The hallmark of modern BI is interactivity. Through intuitive dashboards and visual reports, teams can explore data fluidly, analyse performance in real time and uncover what drives results.

Real-time data connections and analytics allow proactive monitoring of key metrics across your operations, replacing static reports with live intelligence.

Advanced Data Analytics and AI Insights

Beyond data visualisation, Power BI includes forecasting, what-if modelling, AI-driven insights and custom metrics that uncover hidden value.

This combination of analytics and interactive visuals ensures your BI environment remains truly data-driven.

Expert Oversight and Performance Tuning

When stakeholders focus on decision ROI, Aureus' Power BI consulting provides the structure and governance to support it.

Our experts handle data modelling, performance tuning, security and versioning to ensure every report runs efficiently, securely and at scale.

Unified Data Ecosystem

We begin by consolidating your data sources and configuring a Power BI solution tailored to each system. Once designed, we unify those models into a single workspace, so insights remain consistent across departments.

This approach turns fragmented data into a living decision-making engine that evolves with your business.

Executive performance

P&L, cash flow, margins, KPIs and variance tracking

Sales and pipeline

Conversion rates, forecast accuracy, win and loss analysis

Operations

Throughput, cycle time, on-time delivery, supplier performance

Customer and service

NPS, CSAT, ticket volumes, SLA compliance, churn risk

Dashboards
You Can Build

Finance and controls

Revenue trends, cost centres, budget vs actuals

People and HR

Headcount, attrition, training compliance

Supply chain and inventory

Stock levels, reorder points, ageing analysis

Project delivery

Milestones, utilisation, burn rate and risk visibility

Business Value and
Key Benefits

One version of the truth

Modelled data and governed workspaces eliminate conflicting numbers and report sprawl.

Live visibility

DirectQuery, scheduled refresh, and streaming data enable near real-time monitoring.

From insight to action

Connect Power BI with Power Automate and Power Apps so insights trigger workflows and updates.

Security and compliance

Row-level security, data sensitivity labels, and Microsoft Cloud controls protect every dataset.

Copilot-assisted analytics

Users can ask questions and create visuals using natural language. Aureus designs the models, measures, and governance frameworks that ensure Copilot delivers accurate answers at scale.

Moving from Insight to Outcomes

Power BI helps teams see what is happening and why. Aureus helps you act on it. Our Power BI consultants align dashboards to clear decisions, connect them to Power Automate and Power Apps where needed, and set governance so your analytics stay accurate as they scale.

The result is faster reporting, fewer manual steps and a data practice that supports measurable business results.

Empower your enterprise

What We at Aureus Intelligence AI Offer

Aureus delivers Power BI consulting services that transform how your organisation sees and acts on data. We help you design, build and scale intelligent dashboards that unify insights across systems, enabling leaders to make faster, data-driven decisions and teams to operate with clarity and confidence.

Unified Insights

We bring your data together to create a single source of truth. Using Power BI with Power Apps, Power Automate and Microsoft Cloud services, we turn fragmented information into unified, actionable insight for every department.

Measurable Impact

We design analytics ecosystems that make business value visible. From KPI frameworks and performance dashboards to predictive models, our Power BI consulting services ensure every insight leads to action, helping you measure progress, optimise operations and improve results.

Our Services Include

Power BI Consulting

We begin by understanding your business objectives and data maturity. Our Power BI consultants map a strategy that aligns analytics with your enterprise vision, from data modelling and governance to performance tracking, so insights are accurate, actionable and business-driven.

Data Source Audit and Readiness

Before implementation, we assess quality, access and integration readiness across ERPs, CRMs and third-party databases. We identify gaps, redundancies and opportunities for optimisation.

Data Integration and Modelling

We connect Dynamics 365, Azure, SQL, SharePoint and external systems to create a unified model. Dashboards then draw from a trusted foundation that removes silos and lifts accuracy.

Microsoft Fabric Integration

Where appropriate, we harness Microsoft Fabric to unify data, analytics and AI in a single, scalable environment. By connecting Power BI with Fabric items such as lake storage, pipelines and real-time analytics, your insights flow smoothly from ingestion to visualisation.

Governance, Security and Compliance

We implement frameworks for access control, data policies and protection of sensitive information. With enterprise security, role-based permissions and audit readiness, your deployment scales responsibly.

Migration and Modernisation

We upgrade legacy reports and streamline moves from older BI tools to Power BI with minimal disruption. Performance improves, pipelines are optimised, and your analytics landscape is ready for future needs.

Tailored Solutions and Custom Frameworks

We design solutions that reflect your reporting structure, KPIs and business model. From industry frameworks to custom models, your environment scales with your goals and gives teams precise, actionable insight.

We focus on turning data analytics into measurable outcomes.

Through consulting and managed optimisation, we help organisations reduce reporting bottlenecks, unlock efficiency and accelerate return on data investments. Your teams gain real-time visibility, actionable insight and a data foundation built to scale with your growth.

Why We Build with Power BI

How We Use Power BI to Deliver Business Impact

As Power BI experts, We build Power BI dashboards with a purpose. Helping your teams uncover what matters, act faster, and align around the metrics that drive performance.

Designed to Drive Decisions, Not Just Reports

We build role-specific dashboards that spotlight the KPIs that actually move the needle, not just charts for the sake of visuals.

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Decision Speed
Team Alignment

Built Around Your Business Questions

Instead of sifting through noisy data, we start with your real questions, then shape dashboards to deliver clear answers.

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Manual Reports
Business Focus

Connected to Every System That Matters

We integrate Power BI with all your key systems, so data updates live. No more downloads, silos, or sync delays.

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Data Gaps
Reliable Insights

Delivered Fast and Built to Scale

Dashboards go live in days, with enterprise-grade structure, naming standards, security, and scalable data models baked in.

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Delivery Speed
Scalable Reporting

Embedded Where Your Teams Work

We embed insights directly into Teams, SharePoint, and internal apps, so users don’t have to go hunting for them.

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Usage
Platform Switching

Insights That Lead to Action

We integrate Power BI with Power Automate to trigger tasks, alerts, or approvals the moment something changes.

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Workflow Speed
Missed Triggers
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Power BI

Connected by design

Integration with Microsoft Power Platform

Acting alone, most dashboards can only inform, but with Power BI, you can expect deployment. Hence, at Aureus, our strength lies in uniting Power BI with the rest of the Microsoft Power Platform and delivering seamless solutions.

Deep Integration

Through deep integration, Power Platform components, such as Power Apps and Power Automate, work seamlessly with Power BI, enabling you to act on your insights instantly.

Design Philosophy

Our design philosophy certifies your dashboards and analytics to become part of the new age of automation.

Picture this:

How convenient would it be if you had a built-in software like Power BI dashboards, which can detect anomalies in sales trends in real time, consequently allowing a Power Automate workflow to notify your stakeholders?

This is the power of process automation and automation solutions in action.

Accompany this shift with our Power Automate consulting and app development support, so your automation steps are scalable and auditable.

Whether you use Power Apps to create front-end experiences or back-end actions, our team is here to make sure those components interact with your BI layer freely.

Unified Data Foundation

At the foundation of this integration is Microsoft Dataverse, the secure, cloud-based data platform that unifies business information across Power BI, Power Apps and Power Automate. It acts as a governed, relational data source that supports near real-time connectivity and analytics without the heavy custom data pipeline load that many systems require.

Whether your data comes from Excel, SharePoint or SQL, Dataverse unifies and standardises it into a single, cloud-based schema ready for Power BI. Every record created in Power Apps or automated through Power Automate appears instantly in Power BI dashboards, giving decision-makers access to live, reliable insights.

Real-Time Connectivity

Live, Reliable Insights

Governed, Relational
Data Source

Evolve Apps Naturally

Embed Conversational Workflows

Build intelligent agents

AI That Understands Your Data

Building on this foundation, Copilot for Power BI brings generative AI directly into your analytics experience. It enables users to ask questions of data in natural language, create visuals, and summarise insights instantly.

By combining Aureus’ Power Platform architecture with Copilot, your teams gain conversational access to insights, guided analytics and faster decision-making within a unified platform.

A smarter way to build

Power BI vs. Traditional Reporting Tools

Legacy BI tools deliver static reports, and SaaS dashboards often stay siloed in one department. Power BI completely rewires that practice. Through a unified analytics layer, Power BI provides live data feeds with tight integration across the Power Platform and the Microsoft cloud, allowing you to view and leverage real-time insights across your organisation. It brings together the ease of SaaS-style dashboards, the analytical depth of enterprise BI and a unified backbone that links insight directly into your apps and workflows.

Speed

Cost

Flexibility

Integration

Automation/AI

Security & Governance

Scalablity

Maintenance

Control

ROI

Power BI

 Fast to deploy for dashboards and self-service

Subscription pricing; low infra barrier

Blends self-service and enterprise models

Broad connectors; native with Microsoft stack

AI visuals, natural-language insights, built-in analytics

Enterprise-grade via Microsoft Cloud, role-based security and strong compliance

Cloud-native; scales across users/regions with good design and capacity planning

Low infra drag; updates managed by Microsoft (good lifecycle still needed)

Control in Microsoft Cloud; you manage workspaces, data and permissions

Quick value via self-service and governed models

Traditional BI Suites

Slow IT-led development and long cycles

High licences, infrastructure and support

Rigid models; less agile

 Complex integrations across legacy systems

Mostly scheduled/static reports; minimal embedded AI

Strong governance but high cost and slower value

Scales but at high cost and complexity

Heavy maintenance, frequent upgrades, high IT overhead

Full control on-prem or private cloud, higher overhead

Slower returns due to long delivery and cost

Self-Service Analytics Tools

Very fast for ad-hoc exploration

Low entry cost; spend rises with usage & governance

High user flexibility; limited enterprise standardisation

Easy with popular apps; often fragmented at scale

Basic analytics; advanced AI often missing

Lightweight governance; risk of data-sprawl and control gaps

Fits teams/departments; less suited enterprise-wide

Low infra overhead; data governance & quality still need oversight

Vendor-controlled platform; limited enterprise admin

Fast start; ROI depends on data quality and tool fit

How we deliver results

The Power BI Consulting Process at Aureus

The Aureus methodology is built on a structured yet agile framework that delivers engagement with lasting value by combining advisory expertise with hands-on delivery. From the outset, our Power BI consulting services help clients gain clarity into how their investment translates into insight. We believe in transparency, so here’s a look at how the whole process works:  

Discovery & Assessment

We begin by auditing your current data estate, inventorying data sources, interviewing stakeholders, and defining business objectives. Once a solid data strategy is in place, we focus on adjustments needed to reduce risks, align metrics, and ensure that every insight directly connects to measurable outcomes.

Solution Design & Planning

While dashboard performance and security are considered from the start, this stage focuses on designing schemas, defining measures, and strengthening data governance. Our goal is to ensure that the underlying architecture fully supports the creation and scalability of Power BI dashboards and reports.

Development & Configuration

In this phase, our team develops and configures dashboards, reports, and data models that align with your business goals and stakeholder feedback. We build agile, scalable solutions from data pipelines to advanced analytics, ensuring every component delivers clarity, accuracy, and measurable performance.

Testing & Validation

Our team conducts comprehensive QA, load testing, and user acceptance checks to verify accuracy, responsiveness, and reliability. Every dataset, visual, and interaction is validated to ensure insights flow as smoothly as your data.

Deployment & Adoption

Once testing is complete, we move to rollout. Your Power BI dashboards are deployed in a structured, controlled manner, ensuring smooth integration with existing systems and user environments. We conduct tailored training sessions to familiarise users with the interface and analytical tools, helping your teams not just use the dashboards but truly adopt data-driven decision-making with confidence.

Support & Optimisation

Once your dashboards go live, we continuously monitor model health, refresh performance, user adoption and feedback in real time so we can iterate and improve without delay. From fine-tuning data models, refining visuals, adjusting refresh schedules, to enhancing governance and security, we make sure your Power BI environment doesn’t just visualise data, but gives you real actionable insights and performance metrics. With Aureus as your committed Power BI partner, your analytics solution remains efficient, reliable and ready to support growth across your organisation.

Real impact, real change

How Power BI Transforms Business Operations

Every organisation collects data, but not all know how to use it. We’ve developed the best solutions to prove that success is built on iteration, not one-off launches. Think of it this way, once implemented, Power BI has the potential to become the operational nerve centre of your system.

Transforming Data into Action

Data into Decisions

Transform raw data into proactive insights that power every decision. Turn analysis into clear actions that drive real business impact.

Live Monitoring

Live monitoring enables real-time data flows, giving you instant visibility across operations. Stay informed at every moment and keep performance on track.

Key Metrics

Teams can track key metrics like sales velocity, inventory turnover, and resource utilisation without waiting days for static reports.

By embedding advanced analytics into your workflows, Power BI enables you to anticipate trends, detect anomalies, and optimise processes before bottlenecks escalate.

Too often, reports get buried in outdated tools or endless spreadsheets.

Power BI provides the means to transform your data from slow response times and cloudy visibility into measurable and clear results. Analytical insight can now become your expected norm.  

With Aureus’ Power BI solutions, your organisation becomes part of a data-driven culture. As your insight matures, it can even begin to self-optimise.

Meaning cross-functional teams can gain access to unified dashboards and alerts.

Legacy delays will vanish.

All decisions become tightly rooted in actionable numbers.

The result with Power BI is impact at every level.

With Aureus guiding implementation, organisations can act on them. Let us help you transform your business.

Why Aureus?

Why choose Aureus Intelligence AI as your Power BI Partner?

As a certified Microsoft Power BI partner and recognised Microsoft Solutions Partner, our strength lies in our people and expertise. Our team of Power BI experts includes seasoned, long-term Microsoft professionals, bringing years of real world deployment experience and cases from various industries.

Turning Data Into Action

We connect data to action like no other, and most of our clients have noted that this trait is the driving force behind providing an exceptional experience.  

What differentiates Aureus is the offer we have on board to integrate analytics consulting and development power under one roof. Our professional services were built with that goal in mind. With us, you can expect every dashboard, insight and workflow to support profit.

Every Engagement Begins with Analysis

That’s why every Power BI engagement with Aureus starts with analysis, not assumptions.

We work closely with your teams to understand the real questions that need answering before a single dashboard is built:

Where are your reporting gaps or blind spots?

Which metrics truly drive performance and profitability?

What causes delays between data collection and decision-making?

How can governance and accuracy improve without slowing teams down?

Our consultants translate those findings into governed data models and intuitive dashboards designed for lasting value. Every project we deliver begins with clarity, ensuring your analytics strategy aligns with your business outcomes, not just your data.

From Reports to Real-Time Financial Insight

Relying on spreadsheets meant leaders waited too long for a full picture. With Aureus, Power BI brings executive metrics together in one place for faster, clearer decisions.

Revenue and costs flow from ERP → transactions consolidate in Dataverse → Power BI models calculate margins and cash flow → KPIs and variances surface instantly → Power Automate triggers alerts when thresholds are crossed → leaders view live dashboards that track profitability in real time.

This is the level of precision we deliver across every Power BI engagement, where data becomes the foundation for confident decision-making.

Built on Azure with a Path to Microsoft Fabric

Power BI is built and hosted on Microsoft Azure, giving you secure sign-in, scalability and reliable performance. Azure services such as Azure SQL Database, Azure Data Lake Storage and Azure Synapse Analytics enhance Power BI’s ability to manage large datasets, refresh data faster and maintain stability.

Microsoft Fabric extends this by bringing data engineering, analytics and BI into a single, unified platform with OneLake as its shared data layer. When it aligns with your roadmap, we use Fabric to simplify pipelines, streamline governance and strengthen collaboration across teams.

At Aureus Intelligence AI, we help you choose the right approach. Some clients rely on Power BI’s managed cloud service for its simplicity and speed. Others benefit from deeper integration with Azure or Fabric for advanced scale, governance and cross-team collaboration.

We assess goals, tune performance and align cost, security and compliance so your analytics keep pace with the business.

Our Capabilities

Security

Row-level security, sensitivity labels and workspace roles keep access tight while self-service stays productive.

Dashboards

Role-based views for executives, finance, sales and operations with drill-through, bookmarks and export-safe layouts.

Compute

Capacity planning for consistent performance, with refresh windows tuned to trading hours and month-end.

Analytics

Forecasting, what-if analysis and anomaly detection, with Copilot to draft visuals and summaries using natural language prompts.

From Visibility to Action

Power BI gives you a clear view of performance.  Our Power BI consultants work with your leaders to turn objectives into measurable actions.

We prioritise the decisions that matter, define the metrics that prove them, and set refresh schedules, alerts and ownership so accountability is built in.

We also train your teams and support your environment so adoption sticks. With Aureus, reporting stays reliable, adoption grows, and decisions happen faster with confidence.

Proof in performance

Real-world Success Stories

Our work with industry leaders shows how our Power BI solutions deliver measurable outcomes. Each success story demonstrates why organisations trust Aureus Intelligence AI to reveal the value hidden in their operations.

E.ON Next, a leading UK energy provider

One project involved E.ON Next, a leading UK energy provider, which was struggling with fragmented and inconsistent reporting across its departments. Data sat in silos, making it impossible to track true performance. Our Power BI consultation and automation framework brought data to life by consolidating multiple systems into a single, unified source of truth.

Within weeks, the new setup revealed £4 million in missed revenue, eventually exposing £1 billion over a year. The result was decision-ready reports and visually rich interactive dashboards that gave executives the clarity and insight they had been missing.

£4m

Revealed in missed revenue

£1bn

Exposed over a year

We regularly share our insights like this on our Case Studies and Blog pages, including a blog story on  how our Microsoft Power BI consulting services turn complex data into visually appealing dashboards and measurable results.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions About Power BI

If your question isn’t covered here or you’d like further details, please contact us. The Aureus Intelligence AI team is ready to help.

What exactly is Microsoft Power BI, and why should my business care?

Well, it’s simple: Power BI is a business intelligence platform that combines reporting, analytics, and data visualisation into one single tool. Unlike traditional BI, this one surpasses by offering live insights, independent capabilities, and a guarantee for seamless integration with however many data sources you juggle between.

Why hire Power BI consulting?

You can expect growth. Engaging with the experts that our Power BI consultants are, your company can earn guidance with the best practices and gain access to scalable architecture from day one. So, if anything, our consulting services help you avoid common pitfalls and instead focus on accelerating your ROI.

What are the options for Power BI implementation in an enterprise environment?

You’ve got three choices. Opt for on-premises, cloud, or hybrid models. Regardless of which one, we will then design a roadmap tailored to your needs, utilising the benefits of the one you chose. Whether it be through connecting systems across ERP, CRM, data warehouses, or more.

Can Power BI truly deliver real-time insights?

Shortly, yes. Power BI supports streaming datasets that update dashboards live, enabling the user to monitor and respond swiftly to anything.

How secure is my data? What about compliance and privacy policy?

Our Power BI consulting services adhere to the highest standards of privacy and security. While with Power BI, you don’t need to worry about anything short of enterprise-grade encryption, role-based access control, and compliance with major standards (i.e ISO, GDPR). We even help you document policies to meet audit requirements.

What happens after go-live? How do I maintain and evolve the solution?

With us, you don’t have to worry about anything post-launch. Our services will continue to evolve, enhance, and upgrade features, regardless of the deployment stage. You can rely on our Power BI experts to always stay engaged and evolve dashboards as business needs change toward data-driven decision-making.

Get Started with Power BI Consulting Services

Our team designs analytics on Azure with a path to Microsoft Fabric, bringing governance, reuse and real-time data together. Speak to a Power BI consultant about modelling, performance, and how BI connects with Power Apps and Power Automate so teams can act on insight immediately.

Contact Us

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