Manchester has no shortage of organisations sitting on plenty of data that is not quite turning into anything useful. Finance teams in Spinningfields, agencies around the Northern Quarter and MediaCityUK, manufacturers out towards Trafford Park, plus a long list of growing tech and professional services firms in town. A lot of them already have Microsoft Power BI licences as part of their Microsoft 365 setup. The licences are paid for, the data is there, but the reports and dashboards have either never been built or were put together in a rush a couple of years ago and nobody has dared touch them since.
That is where a proper Power BI course tends to come in. Our Power BI training in Manchester is run in small groups on the systems your team actually logs into every day. We connect to your data sources together in the session, build the first proper Power BI model on the screen in front of you, and have everybody create a working report before the first half day is finished. Nothing abstract and nothing copied off a Microsoft sample.
A lot of the people we train in Manchester are long term Microsoft Excel users. Finance leads who have built every model the company runs on, a business analyst who has been quietly holding the reporting together with VLOOKUPs and pivot tables, ops managers who would rather be looking at a dashboard than scrolling another sheet. Our Power BI training spends real time on the move from Microsoft Excel to Microsoft Power BI, because the way you think about data has to shift a little, and that shift is what people quietly worry about before the first session.
Once the basics are in, we move into proper business analytics. Designing measures that match how the business actually thinks about itself, building reports and dashboards that surface useful business insights for leadership, and setting things up so the team can keep extending the model without having to ring a consultancy every time. For groups with a working business analyst in the room, we go deeper into DAX, Power Query and modelling. For groups that are newer to it, we slow down and keep the examples tight.
We can run the Power BI course on site at your office in central Manchester, or remotely over Teams if your team is split across the Greater Manchester boroughs. Most clients pair a short block of Power BI training with a small amount of ongoing support each month, which is usually enough to keep the quality high as the library of reports and dashboards grows. If you would rather we built the first set of dashboards for you before training the team to take them on, our Power BI consultancy side handles that, and the two pieces of work join up neatly.
We also support teams in Bolton, Liverpool and across the M62, so a head office in Manchester with sites elsewhere in the North West is no problem. If you would like to talk through what your team needs, please drop us a line and we will come back the same working day with a sensible plan and a clear price for the first block of Power BI training. You can also read more about our Power BI training generally, or have a look at our dashboard design work.