Dashboarding and Report Automation

How it works

Creating and maintaining reports is a time-consuming but essential process in any well-run organization. Your analysts should be focused on asking questions and digesting information, but they often get tied up managing an increasing volume of reports and dashboards

We can free up their time by automating the existing manual reports they maintain, or helping them create new automated reports and dashboards as needed

Engagement process

For automating existing reports, we will work with the current report owner to identify the data sources, replicate the data transformations, and recreate the layout. For new reports and dashboards, our engagements generally follow 4 steps:

  1. We work with you to define the metrics you want to track, and this can be a very quick step if these metrics are already clearly identified
  2. We work with your teams to understand the data sources, as well as any filters that need to be applied to the data
  3. We design and develop the reports and dashboards, and compare them with historical reports to ensure accuracy
  4. We review the reports and dashboards with your team and iterate on feedback
Reporting tools

We typically use PowerBI for reports and dashboards, as it is cost-effective, easy for small teams to maintain, and integrates seamlessly with other Microsoft products used by SMEs

Ongoing support

After completion, we will publish the reports into your internal workspace and hand over the source files to your team. We are available to support ongoing modifications on a time-and-materials basis

Benefits
Why use automated
dashboards and reports?
Free up your team's time

Creating reports can be tedious, and maintaining them consumes valuable time in any business. Make them automated so your team can focus on the big picture

More timely reports

Automating reports and dashboards enables higher refresh frequency, typically daily or twice daily, keeping you more connected to your business. Additionally, KPI-triggered alerts can be leveraged to initiate other workflows

Eliminate downtime

Automated reports and dashboards do not depend on any individual team member to refresh, simplifying vacation coverage planning and reducing over-reliance on any single person

Pricing

Pricing varies significantly depending on the number of metrics, quantity of pages, complexity of data transformations, and availability of pre-defined formulas. Below is a range of typical pricing

Automating existing report
$1,500-$6,000

Analyzing existing report, identifying data sources, replicating data transformation, recreating layout

New report or dashboard
$2,000-$15,000

Defining metrics, identifying data sources, developing reports and dashboards, iterating on feedback

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other services

We can also help you set up a cost-effective data warehouse, and perform one-off analyses on demand

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