Leeds has one of the strongest business economies outside London. Legal and professional services around Park Row and Wellington Place, a serious finance and fintech cluster, digital and tech firms spread through the city centre, retail and consumer brands headquartered in the region, plus a large public sector and healthcare footprint. Almost every one of those businesses already pays for Microsoft 365 and therefore already has Power BI. What is usually missing is the time to wire it up properly against the source systems.
We start with one report. Usually the one that takes half a day to pull together every Monday morning, or the finance pack that has to be reconciled by hand each month end. We connect Power BI to the underlying data, rebuild the report so it refreshes on its own and document where every number comes from. From there we can pick up the rest of your Power BI reporting work or move into proper interactive dashboards for the leadership team.
Finance and professional services clients in Leeds tend to ask about fee earner utilisation, WIP, matter profitability and client concentration. Tech and SaaS firms ask about MRR, churn, pipeline and CAC payback. Retail and consumer brands ask about sales by channel, margin waterfall and stock cover. Power BI handles all of these well and we are happy working with whatever mix of Xero, Sage, NetSuite, HubSpot, Salesforce or bespoke systems you already have.
If your team would rather build the skills internally, our Power BI training runs in small groups on your own data rather than a demo dataset. Most groups walk out of the day with a working report about their own business, which sticks a lot better than notes about a fictional coffee shop.
We also tidy up Power BI environments that have grown a bit chaotic. Workspaces full of half finished reports, datasets nobody is sure are still refreshing, gateways that fall over every few weeks. A short audit usually pays for itself in saved time within a couple of months and gives you a sensible foundation to build on.
We cover Leeds and the wider West Yorkshire area, and are used to supporting teams that also have offices in Manchester, Sheffield or further afield. Drop us a line and we will come back the same working day with an honest first step, not a sales pitch. More about us here if you would like to see who you would be working with.