Salford packs a lot in. The BBC, ITV and the broader media and production ecosystem around MediaCityUK, the tech and digital community that has grown up alongside it, property and regeneration businesses across Salford Quays and the city centre, plus established manufacturing and logistics out towards Eccles, Irlam and Trafford Park. Each one has its own reporting culture, but the underlying problem we get asked about is usually the same. Too many spreadsheets, not enough trust in the numbers, and not enough time to fix it properly.
We start small. One report, one team, one question we can answer with the data you already have. Most often that is a finance pack, a project profitability view, or a marketing and pipeline dashboard. We connect Power BI directly to the source, rebuild the report so it updates on its own, and document where every figure comes from. From there we can take on the rest of your Power BI reporting work or move into proper interactive dashboards for the senior team.
Media and production clients in Salford tend to ask about project costing, freelancer spend and slate level profitability. Tech and digital firms ask about MRR, churn, pipeline and resourcing. Property and regeneration teams ask about development pipeline, cost to complete and sales rates. Power BI handles all of those well, and we are happy working with whichever systems you already have, from Xero and Sage through to bespoke project tools.
If your team would rather build the skills internally, our Power BI training is run in small groups on your own data sources, either on site or over Teams. We pitch the content at the people in the room rather than running a generic syllabus, and most groups finish the day with a working report rather than a slide deck.
We also pick up workspaces that have grown a bit messy. Quite a few Salford businesses we speak to have inherited reports from a previous contractor, an old in house analyst or a free trial that turned into the official source of truth. A short discovery exercise usually gets things back on a sensible footing.
We cover Salford and the wider Manchester area, plus neighbouring Bolton and out towards Warrington, so cross site reporting is no problem. If you would like to talk, say hello and we will come back the same working day. More about us here if you would like to see who you would be working with.