Power BI Consulting

Softlanding is an industry-leading IT company in Vancouver, helping businesses and organizations harness the power of Microsoft technologies across Canada.

With over 20 years of experience, we’re proud to be a trusted Microsoft Solutions partner. We help our clients understand the full capabilities of Microsoft technologies, including Power BI’s dynamic platform.

As Power BI consultants, we will work closely with your team to build a custom solution that increases productivity, communication and drives innovation across your organization.

Learn how Microsoft’s Power BI toolset can elevate your next project.

Turn Data into Action

Take control of your data and build visually appealing and interactive reports that can be accessed from anywhere.

Power BI is a powerful business intelligence toolset, offering an enterprise-grade data analytics environment that can be seamlessly customized to meet the needs of your organization. By harnessing the power of the cloud, your business can take big datasets from various sources and provide intelligent analytics insights.

Softlanding’s Power BI Consulting Services can help you define your BI strategy and implement the right architecture to leverage and utilize your data. Finally, we can help you turn your data into valuable insights via easy-to-use dashboards, interactive reports, or relevant data visualizations.

Our certified Power BI experts can also assist in data governance, data security, and user access control and permissions to ensure an optimal and secure experience.

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Benefits of Power BI Consulting

Use your business data to create a continually updated story of your organization and increase your team’s productivity and connectivity.

Help your organization spot risks, find opportunities, and make informed decisions with Power BI.

Power BI Consulting Services

Transform your organization with powerful business intelligence and enterprise-grade data analytics tools with Softlanding’s Power BI consultants. By aligning your analytics tools, your business can make informed decisions in real time.

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Power BI Development & Implementation

Our Power BI consultants will work closely with your organization to better understand your BI needs and build your custom Power BI solution. To do so, we will start by establishing your objectives, understanding your data sources, designing the data architecture, and building data models. We will also clean your data, migrate it from legacy systems or connect your data points via APIs. Our team will also ensure that the data security, governance, and user access and permissions are correctly set up to best manage your environment.

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Data Visualization & Reports

Softlanding Power BI consultants can help you create easy-to-use and interactive custom dashboards and reports that meet your organization's needs, whether they are internal or customer-facing. Our team of experts can also help build integrations with other Microsoft technologies or customer applications leveraging the Microsoft Power Platform.

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Power BI Training

Power BI is a rich platform that constantly evolves, and it can be daunting for users to keep up with the new features to create compelling dashboards and reports and own their data. Whether you're just getting started or are an advanced user, Softlanding offers various training programs to help you successfully adopt Power BI and make data-driven decisions.

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Our Approach

Our Power BI consulting services are comprehensive yet flexible to help you harness the power of data. Our Data & Analytics team members are certified Power BI consultants with many years of experience across various industries and can help you achieve your goals every step of the way.

Every project can be customized to your needs, whether you need an extension of your team or you need help handling your Power BI project from start to finish.

Why Choose Softlanding:

  • 20+ years of experience with Microsoft technologies, 5 Microsoft Solutions Designations out of 6 & 9 Microsoft Specializations.
  • Our services are comprehensive and include Power BI development, implementation, training, maintenance, and support services.

  • We have delivered successfully 50+ custom Power BI projects for various Canadian organizations across all industries.

Choose Softlanding for Power BI Consulting

Softlanding is proud to be a leader in IT consulting and managed IT services, including our innovative Power BI consultancy solutions.

We’re an exclusive Microsoft partner offering multi-level support and helping our clients leverage every opportunity to advance their business intelligence. We help our clients identify and manage risks, boost productivity, simplify their IT infrastructure, and achieve greater scalability.

Our experienced Power BI consultants offer a comprehensive and customized approach to harnessing your data and achieving your business goals. We’ll tailor our Power BI service to your needs so that you can make informed decisions in real time.

Frequently Asked Questions About Power BI Consulting

What is Power BI?

Power BI is an interactive data visualization software created by Microsoft. Its initial focus centres around self-service and enterprise business intelligence by visualizing data and integrating those visuals into the applications businesses use on a daily basis.

What is Power BI used for?

Businesses and organizations use Microsoft’s Power BI platform to connect various data sources, streamline data preparation, and drive analysis. Users can develop comprehensive reports and upload those reports for team members to consume both on the web and mobile devices.

Why use Power BI?

When you’re putting together data-driven reports for your team, you need the complete metrics to measure and finalize those important business decisions. Power BI was created to help businesses leverage their visualizations and connect several data sources in a way that is accessible to the rest of your organization.

Power BI helps Canada’s business leaders evaluate and predict industry trends using organized data on a single screen rather than spread out across multiple spreadsheets and various applications/software.

Who uses Power BI?

Power BI was designed for the everyday business user. Its streamlined business intelligence, reporting, and data visualization capabilities have been utilized by a wide range of industries, including:

  • Education
  • E-Commerce
  • Computer Software
  • Mobile Technology
  • Oil & Gas
  • Manufacturing

At Softlanding, we work with businesses and organizations across Canada and the United States to deliver end-to-end Microsoft consulting services they can count on, including our leading Power BI services.

What is Microsoft Power BI certification?

A Power BI certification is awarded to anyone who completes Exam PL-300: Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst — a 90-minute exam designed to measure your ability to prepare, model, visualize, and analyze data, in addition to deploying and maintaining assets.

This certificate asserts that you understand how to effectively manage reports and dashboards, create paginated reports, and publish reports to any Power BI platform.

How to use Microsoft Power BI

If you have a Power BI account, you can begin to build your custom data models and reports using the Power BI Desktop.

Once you’ve connected to your chosen data, you can then begin to shape the data with questions that create compelling and insightful data models. These data models will then be used to create reports and comprehensive visualizations that can be shared with your team like any other Microsoft file.

Your Power BI consultant will help you understand everything you need to know about Power BI and customize its dashboard and reports to align with your business objectives. We’ll help you identify risks, locate new opportunities, and make informed decisions — giving you a competitive advantage in your industry.

What is Power BI consulting?

Power BI consulting is a service we offer to businesses and organizations across Canada and the U.S. to drive innovation and business intelligence. We harness the power of the cloud and Microsoft’s leading technologies to define our client’s business strategies and increase productivity and connectivity within their team.

A Power BI consultant is equipped with the knowledge and resources to customize any Power BI service to meet their client’s objectives, ensuring they can efficiently and accurately visualize their data and share reports over the web and mobile devices.

Why do I need a Power BI consultant?

Microsoft’s Power BI is one of the company’s most innovative platforms, but its nuances and inner workings can feel overwhelming to understand. A Power BI consultant can help.

At Softlanding, we’re an exclusive Microsoft partner, offering a range of Vancouver managed IT services, Toronto managed IT services and IT consulting services, including Power BI consulting. We understand the ins and outs of Microsoft’s technologies and are able to help our clients leverage its programs, including Power BI’s business intelligence and analytics tools.

A consultant will guide you through the inner workings of this innovative platform, from extracting and converting data to creating custom visualizations and dashboard graphs that your team can access on the web and their mobile device.

How long does it take to learn Power BI?

With the help of an experienced Power BI consulting specialist, learning this Microsoft technology is simple and accessible.

Our consultants work with clients across Canada and the U.S. to help them understand the full range of benefits and amenities they’ll only find with this platform. We’ll begin by learning your business objectives and data sources before designing your custom data architecture and data models.

Contact a Softlanding Power BI consultancy specialist today to learn how quickly you can transform your approach to business intelligence and analytics.

Power BI vs excel

While both programs offer similarities in how they function and how data is presented, there are important differentiators to consider.

Power BI is designed to handle millions of rows of data at an advanced speed. Its cloud-based features allow users to publish reports to the end-user on Microsoft’s platform and import visualizations that are not in the current file by going to the marketplace.

Microsoft Excel is an accessible technology that is used by businesses worldwide. While it offers flexibility when creating reports, it cannot hold as much data as Power BI and offers limited visualizations.

Power BI vs Google analytics

While both Power BI and Google Analytics are data visualization tools, it’s important to note their differences.

Power BI is used for business analytics and offers a greater capacity for visualization options when creating company reports.

Google Analytics is used for web analytics and is most suitable for understanding visitor behaviours and goals-tracking from websites.

At Softlanding, we help businesses and organizations across Canada and the U.S. understand the benefits of Microsoft’s Power BI service and how this innovative platform can help them meet their internal or customer-facing needs.

What sets Softlanding apart from other Power BI consultants?

At Softlanding, we’re your exclusive Microsoft partner.

Our expertise includes nine Microsoft Specializations and five Microsoft Solutions Designations — Data & AI, Digital & App Innovation, Infrastructure, Modern Work, and Security.

We understand the importance of streamlining and optimizing daily reports and industry trends. Our Power BI consultants help businesses and organizations adopt Microsoft’s innovative technologies and integrate new data sources without compromising data infrastructures.

Our consultants take the time to understand your business goals and objectives so that we can tailor your Power BI service to meet your needs. We leverage Microsoft’s industry-leading platforms to create interactive and efficient dashboards and reports that meet your organization where it is today while still preparing for the future, whether your needs are internal or customer-facing.

When you need a 360-degree perspective on your business, Power BI consulting can help.

Contact Softlanding today to learn more.

How much does a Power BI consultant cost?

The cost of hiring a Power BI consultant may vary depending on the scope of your project and the services required.

At Softlanding, we believe businesses and organizations in North America deserve quality IT consulting services that they can trust, and that includes costs. We work closely with our clients to determine if Power BI is right for their team and will provide a comprehensive cost breakdown for our professional services.

Where can I find a Power BI consultant near me?

If you’re looking for qualified Power BI consultancy specialists, look no further than Softlanding.

With over two decades of experience, we understand what our clients need to successfully transform their workplace and drive innovation. You’ll find our Power BI consultants in Toronto, Montreal, Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver and more.

Don’t hesitate to reach out to our team to learn if Power BI consulting is right for your business.

Power BI Quick Start

With our 10-day Power BI Quick Start, the Softlanding team will help you understand the value of Power BI by assessing your current environment, installing and configuring a Data Management Gateway, and training and transferring knowledge to your power users & IT staff.

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