York has an unusual mix. A strong tourism and hospitality economy around the city walls, a serious rail and engineering heritage, financial and insurance firms with sizeable back offices, plus a growing tech and bioscience scene around Science Park and the University of York. Most of these businesses already run on Microsoft 365 and already have Power BI licences sat there unused. What tends to be missing is a bit of focused time to connect Power BI to the systems that matter and build reports the team actually trusts.
We normally start with a single piece of reporting that somebody dreads rebuilding every week. A finance pack, a booking or occupancy view, a weekly pipeline report. We connect Power BI to the underlying system, rebuild it cleanly and hand it back so it refreshes on its own. From there we build out into proper interactive dashboards for the leadership team, or work alongside your in house analyst on the trickier modelling.
Hospitality and tourism businesses in York usually want a simple trading view that a duty manager can open on a phone before service. Bookings against last year, revenue per room or cover, staff on shift against demand. Financial services and insurance clients in the city ask about portfolio performance, claims, and clean board reporting. Engineering and rail firms tend to want project cost tracking, resource utilisation and cash flow forecasting. Different data, same shape of problem.
For teams that would rather build the skills in house, our Power BI training runs in small groups on your own data rather than a demo dataset. Most groups pair a short training block with a few hours of monthly support, which usually beats hiring an analyst outright.
We cover York and the wider North Yorkshire area, and often support teams that also have offices in Leeds, Newcastle or Manchester. Drop us a line and we will come back the same working day with an honest first step, not a sales pitch.