Power BI Collaborative Consulting

Because You Don’t Have to Go Alone!

Trying to figure out Power BI all by yourself, is not easy.

Tired of Juggling Your Daily Responsibilities, While Trying to Figure Out Power BI?

Done Running Power BI as a Side-Project and Making Slow 🐢 Progress?

Afraid of Going Down Wrong Paths and Then Having To Start Over?

Here is the good news…

You don’t have to do it alone.

But before that…

❌ How NOT to Get Power BI Help

We have worked in Corporate World too. And we were tired of “Consulting” which felt like:

❌ Throw it Over the Wall 🧱 Consulting

Where you throw your requirements over a wall to the consultants, and they throw something back at you over the wall. And unfortunately what you get, is often not what you asked for at all.

❌ Pay $$$ and Pray 🙏🏼 Consulting

We never understood, why Consulting needs to be so expensive. And still fail to produce results?!

We have seen BI Projects spend Millions of dollars, and still not deliver useful reports. And users just go back to doing things in Excel, their own way.

❌ Catch me a Fish 🐟 Consulting

We believe that the goal of Consulting, should be to empower the client. Not to catch the fish for them, but to teach them to fish. To transfer our knowledge to you and your team, so you can build your own reports, solve your own problems.

But most consulting, can leave you just dependent on others for help.

Collaborative Consulting

with the Power BI Pros

Agile Approach ➔
Quick Results You Can See for Yourself

We believe that Power BI = Agile BI.

Trying to do Power BI the old school way (of launching a large BI project) is just plain stupid 🤦🏼‍♂️, or completely insane. And I didn't say that, Einstein did.

Power BI is a new tool for a new era, and needs a new approach.

Our engagement starts with helping you select the right project ✔️. Selecting the wrong project ❌ is often the biggest mistake of new organizations adopting Power BI.

Then we work in weekly sprints 🏃‍♀️💨, where each week we make progress towards our goal.

And before the end of the month, you would have your Power BI Dashboard ready!

❝We got more done in 8 hours, than I could have done in 80!❞

Matt Brackin
President, Selected Power Inc.

You can read more of our customer testimonials as you scroll below.

Fractional Power BI Pro ➔
Multiply Your Results, at a Fraction of the Cost ™

Hiring a Full-time competent Power BI professional can be challenging.

  • First Challenge: Finding the right person! The market is flooded with people who claim to know Power BI or think they know Power BI 🤓. And they can sound really impressive. But they end up giving you the same, jaded old school BI approach in new clothing.
     

  • Second Challenge: A full time Power BI Professional can be really expensive 💲. Especially a Power BI professional who doesn't just have the technical knowledge. But understands people, understands communication, and understands business. That is the person you need, because Power BI isn't about high-tech systems ⚙️ or fancy reports 📊. It's about working with you to solve your business problems.
     

  • Third Challenge: Keeping the Power BI Professional busy! The truth is that Power BI is so powerful, that multiple times we have walked with a client and finished a project in a week that they had been stuck on for years. Even large organizations can often struggle to keep a competent Power BI professional busy. And then you're just paying them to sit idle 😴

That's why it makes a lot of sense to hire a…

Fractional Power BI Professional

An experienced professional who provides Power BI support to your organization on a part-time basis. (If you’ve heard of “Fractional CFOs”. It’s just like that, but for your Power BI / Reporting needs).

 And if you hire the right professional, you'd realize, that you're not compromising on the result.

You'd still be able to multiply the impact to your whole organization, by leveraging Power BI.

At just a fraction of the cost.

Over the Shoulder Collaborative Consulting

We believe in over the shoulder consulting. That means, while we're working together

  • Either you would be looking over our shoulder,

  • Or we would be looking over your shoulder

Let me explain more.

Looking Over Our Shoulder:

Say we are working together on a specific Power BI Problem. When starting out, we may take the lead, with you looking over our shoulder. So you can see exactly how we solve a problem.

But not just that, we always “Think out loud” when we are solving problems. So that, you understand our reasoning, our approach to solving problems.

🐠 You don’t just get the fish (the solution), you are learning how to catch a fish (how to solve Power BI problems).

Looking Over Your Shoulder:

Often fairly quickly in the engagement the roles would be reversed. You would be in the driver's seat 🚘 working through a solution.

But you wouldn’t be driving alone. We would be looking over your shoulder, and providing gentle guidance where needed.

We may:

  • Simply say “That’s perfect!” so you know you are on the right path

  • Or say “That’s great, but have you considered this…”. Offering you a better approach.

  • Or say, “That’s great, however the best practice we’ve seen is…”. So you can follow the best practices and avoid shoddy work that can hurt you in the long run.

Being in the driver’s seat yourself is important! How else would you actually learn how to fish? Not by just watching.

But what’s also important, is the peace of mind 😇, that you are doing it the right way. And we’d always be there to guide you.

What Our Clients are Saying about Collaborative Consulting

❝We got more done in 8 hours, than I could have done in 80!❞

Matt Brackin
President, Selected Power Inc.

❝We spent a full day with Avi and it was invaluable!

Avi helped us with reports to better understand customer segmentation and customer behavior by spend tiers. Avi is not only amazing in Power BI, building reports from scratch, etc. he is also a great human being. Avi cared deeply about our questions. We learned a lot and benefited tremendously from his visit and his expertise.

Choose Avi if you want to accelerate your Power BI journey!❞

Manuel Fuentes
Director of Marketing, Pricing & Business Analytics, Labelmaster Corp.

❝Avi helped us create magic!

I was fortunate to work with Avi as he helped us ramp up Power BI journey and build innovative solutions for our Finance team. With his expertise in Power BI and his intelligent approach to business problems, he helped us develop Power BI reporting solutions that are truly magical.

Not only that, Avi took the time to explain and teach us how he derived the solutions. He taught his clients how to fish! That is admirable and it is his true passion—teaching and spreading his wealth of Microsoft Power BI knowledge.

Connect with him and you will be impressed as much as I am.❞

Nimit Phutirat
Director - Corporate Finance & FP&A, Microsoft

❝I was afraid that we would rack up Consulting Fees at an alarming rate! However…❞

The Problem:

I was getting flooded with demands for reports pouring in every day. Each with different data sources and very different requirements.

I could handle lot of it, by pouring in more time, but I kept running into similar obstacles. And reference books and google searches couldn’t help me overcome the problems fast enough to meet our tight deadlines.

The Doubt:

I was hesitant in reaching out to Avi’s Team for consulting help.

I thought it might take us too long, to explain each issue to the consultant, and we'd rack up fees 💲 at an alarming rate!

I was also unsure, if we could work together effectively, given our fast deadlines and fast-changing priorities (it happens!).

And given so many areas of expertise involved in Power BI, I questioned the probability of quickly finding the right consultant, whose expertise matched our needs.

The Experience:

❝The Consultant grokked (understood) the issues extraordinarily quickly and provided immediate solutions!❞

Avi’s team was very responsive and we were quickly able to schedule sessions to start working together.

The consultant’s expertise ideally matched what we needed help with. None of the issues we raised fazed them. They grokked (understood) the issues extraordinarily quickly and could immediately begin to provide appropriate, advanced solutions.

By seeing how they approached the problems, I was able to solve problems on my own thereafter.

Besides answering our questions and helping us over the problems, the consultant showed us a few ways to provide extra delight to our report consumers; by using techniques that I had either never heard of or never used myself.

The Results:

Having Team Avi in my corner, meant that I didn’t feel completely on my own, in meeting the challenges of a very large career stretch.

It helped us deliver a lot of projects very quickly. And I felt more confident in my ability to overcome Power BI obstacles.

This eventually led to the Power BI Project being extended and expanded to other areas. What a win!

What I Recommend for You:

I would turn to Avi’s team again if I ran into any Power BI challenges I couldn’t resolve myself in time.

I knew of Avi and his team because of years of appreciatively learning from his YouTube channel. Because I valued Avi's content, his delivery, and especially the heartful values he espoused, he was the first consultancy I thought of when I needed help. I was happy to help support Avi and his team's good work, and to become part of the his community.

Since no one on my new team or, more generally in my whole Business Analyst network, had deep knowledge of Power Bl, I valued being able to work with someone with whom I shared a passion and a common language.

Even as I've gotten a little farther along in my fledgling mastery of parts of Power BI, I still have major 'aha' back-to-basics moments when working with Team Avi.

❝I valued being able to work with someone, with whom I shared a passion and a common language.❞

Julie Carignan
Business Intelligence Analyst. Massachusetts, USA

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