Oldham has a strong industrial backbone. Textiles and manufacturing history that has reshaped into modern engineering, food production and distribution, plus a growing services and public sector economy around the town centre and the Royal Oldham Hospital. A lot of these businesses have grown steadily and ended up with their numbers spread across a finance system, a stock or production system, a CRM and an awful lot of Excel. Power BI is usually already paid for as part of Microsoft 365. It is just nobody has had the time to wire it up properly.
We start with one report. Usually it is the one somebody dreads building every Monday or the one the board complains is always slightly different to last month's. We connect Power BI to the underlying systems, rebuild it cleanly and hand it back so it refreshes on its own. From there we can keep going with the rest of your reporting and visualisation work or move into proper interactive dashboards for the leadership team.
Manufacturers in Oldham often ask us about joining production data, scrap rates and downtime to financial margin. Distributors ask about stock turn, ageing and carrier performance. Service businesses ask about utilisation, project profitability and pipeline. Power BI handles all of these well once the data model is built properly, and we are happy working with the systems you already have rather than pushing you to replace anything.
If your team would rather pick the skills up internally, our Power BI training runs in small groups on your own data sources rather than a stock dataset. People tend to remember what they built about their own business far better than what they built about a fictional coffee shop chain.
We also pick up workspaces that have grown unwieldy. If you have inherited Power BI from a previous contractor or a member of staff who has moved on, a short discovery piece usually lets us document what is there, fix the parts that matter and retire the rest without anyone losing reports they actually rely on.
We work with teams across Oldham and the neighbouring boroughs in Rochdale, Bury, Stockport and the wider Manchester area, so multi site reporting is no problem. Drop us a line if you would like to talk and we will come back the same working day. A bit more about us if you would like to see who you would be working with.