Sheffield has an engineering and manufacturing base most cities would envy. Advanced manufacturing and materials firms around the AMRC and Rotherham, a strong professional services core in the city centre, healthcare and higher education across the two universities and the teaching hospitals, plus a growing digital and creative scene around Kelham Island. What most of these businesses have in common is a solid operational system, a finance package and a lot of Excel bridging the gap. That is where Power BI earns its keep.
We usually start with a single report. The production report that takes an engineer half a Monday to build, the finance pack that has to be reconciled by hand, or the sales view the MD keeps asking for and never quite gets. 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.
Sheffield manufacturers often ask us about joining production output, scrap, downtime and OEE to financial margin so the month end is not a surprise. Engineering and project businesses ask about project cost tracking, resource utilisation and cash flow forecasting. Service and healthcare clients ask about throughput, waiting times and case mix. Power BI handles all of those well once the data model is built properly, and we work with whatever ERP or line of business system you already have.
For teams that would rather learn to build their own reports, our Power BI training is run in small groups on your own data, on site or over Teams. We pitch the content at the people in the room rather than working through a generic syllabus, which tends to be a much better use of a day.
We also pick up Power BI setups that have grown a bit wild. Workspaces with thirty reports and no idea which are still used, datasets nobody is confident are refreshing, gateways on someone's old laptop. A short discovery piece usually gets things back on a sensible footing without anyone losing a report they actually rely on.
We cover Sheffield and the wider South Yorkshire area, and often work with teams that also have sites in Leeds, Manchester or across the Midlands. Get in touch and we will come back the same working day with an honest suggestion for the first step.