How we work
How we work
Power BI consulting in Brisbane that shows you the answer first
Level Up Your Data is a Brisbane Power BI consultancy that shows you finished reports for your sector first, then builds one on your own data in a fixed-price pilot of 4–6 weeks, scoped with you.
Wattlecrest Care Group is a fictional provider built on typical sector data. Figures are illustrative.
Our approach
How our Brisbane Power BI consulting works, in four steps
Every engagement starts small and fixed, so you know what you’re getting before you commit to more.
1. A free 30-minute walkthrough
We show you the report examples for your sector, live. You tell us the question that matters most, and we agree together whether a pilot makes sense. There’s no obligation.
2. A fixed-price pilot, 4–6 weeks, scoped with you
We build one report on your real data. Weeks 1–2: access to your systems, extracts and staging. Weeks 3–4: the data model on your data, reconciled to your own figures. Weeks 5–6: the report tuned with its business owner, then handover.
3. Build
We extend to more sources and more reports, with separate development, test and production releases, data quality checks, governance and documentation. The work follows our tested delivery accelerators, so every source and report is built the same way.
4. Run it: analytics as a service
If you’d rather not run it yourself, a monthly retainer of hours covers changes, new reports and support. See data analytics as a service.
What you get
What you have at the end of a pilot
A pilot finishes with something you can use and check, not a slide deck:
- A working Power BI report on your data, answering the question you chose.
- The data model and the pipelines behind it, in your own Microsoft tenant.
- A reconciliation showing the report’s figures agree with your existing reports, or explaining exactly why they don’t.
- An owner, a definition and quality checks for every measure.
- A runbook and a data dictionary, so your team knows how it works.
- A fixed-price proposal for the build, if you want to go on.
Services
Where you can start
Start from your sector or from the problem in front of you.
By industry
- Aged care analytics: occupancy, care minutes and funding for providers.
- Water utility analytics: non-revenue water, leaks and benchmarks by district.
- Not-for-profit analytics: donors, grants and outcomes in one view.
- Local government analytics: requests, capital works and budgets for councils.
By need
- Data strategy: decide what to build first and why.
- Data governance: owners, definitions and policies people follow.
- Data maturity assessment: where you stand today, scored.
- Data architecture: a platform that fits your sources and your team.
- Data analytics services: reporting and analysis beyond a single report.
- Azure cloud optimisation: lower the cost of what you already run.
- Microsoft Fabric training: for teams who want to build it themselves.
FAQ
Questions buyers ask
The pilot is fixed-price and scoped with you after the 30-minute meeting, once we know your question and your data sources. Three things drive the price: how many source systems the report needs, how easily we can get access to them, and how much the report has to cover.
Within the pilot: you see your own numbers in the model by about week 4, and the finished report by week 6.
Not necessarily. Many reports run well on Power BI Pro, and some organisations need Premium Per User or a Fabric capacity for larger data volumes, more frequent refresh or sharing with many people. Which one fits depends on your data and your users, so it’s part of scoping the pilot with you.
You keep everything built in the pilot, whether or not you go on. If you do, the build is a separate fixed-price proposal, scoped with you like the pilot.
Two things. Access to the source systems the report needs, or extracts from them if direct access isn’t possible. And a business owner for the question: the person who’ll use the report, who reviews it with us in weeks 5–6 so it answers what they actually need. We agree the details, including who provides access and when, while we scope the pilot.
Start with one question and 30 minutes
Bring your hardest question about your organisation’s data. We’ll show you a Power BI report that answers it for an organisation like yours, and tell you what a pilot on your own data would involve.