It starts with one useful report. Two years later there are forty flows, six near-identical dashboards, two versions of revenue, and one person quietly holding it all together on their own laptop. We build the good version of this — and we clean up the other one.
None of these are unusual, and almost none of them are solved by buying more licences.
Almost always the data model, not the licence. Flattened tables, calculated columns doing a measure's job, and DirectQuery pointed at something unhappy.
A sign the report answers the wrong question. If the first click is Export, the dashboard is decoration.
Duplicated logic in separate files. Measures belong in one shared model, defined once, so there's nothing to reconcile.
And it's usually their side project. When they take a holiday, reporting stops — that's a business risk, not an IT preference.
Stale data presented confidently is worse than no data. Failures should page someone, not sit silently in a service.
Premium features switched on to solve a problem that was really a modelling problem. Worth checking before renewal.
We work in your tenant, under your licences, with documentation and a second owner as part of the deal.
Reports that load fast and numbers everyone agrees on.
Internal tools on the licence you're already paying for.
Flows that are documented, monitored, and owned by more than one person.
For when Power Platform quietly became business-critical without anyone deciding.
Power Platform is the right answer when your users are internal and already licensed, the data volumes are reasonable, and speed of delivery matters. It's the wrong answer when the logic gets genuinely complex, the volumes get large, the users are outside your organization, or per-user licensing would cost more than just building the thing.
We do both, so that recommendation isn't shaped by what we happen to sell. If a canvas app has outgrown the platform, we'll say so — and we can build the custom replacement or leave you with the analysis and no obligation.
Most Power BI pain is a modelling problem wearing a performance costume. Fix the schema and the rest gets easy.
One shared semantic model, one definition of revenue. Two reports that disagree is a governance bug, not a rounding issue.
Everything load-bearing gets documented and a named second owner. Reporting shouldn't stop when one person is on leave.
We look for the cheapest compliant option before recommending premium capacity — ideally before your renewal date.
Usually not, and we would rather you did not find out the expensive way. Slow reports are most often a modelling problem: a flat table where a star schema belongs, calculated columns doing the work of measures, or a DirectQuery source under strain. We look at the model first and tell you if capacity is genuinely the constraint.
Yes, and often that is cheaper than starting over. We will tell you plainly which reports are worth repairing, which should be consolidated into a shared model, and which are duplicates that can quietly be retired.
Real, for a specific job: internal tools, forms, and workflows for people who already have Microsoft licences. It gets expensive and awkward when you need complex logic, heavy data volumes, or an external-facing product. We will say when you have crossed that line instead of forcing it.
Common, and fixable. We inventory what exists, map what each flow touches, document the load-bearing ones, retire the dead ones, and put the survivors into solutions with a deployment pipeline — so changes stop happening in production.
You do — it all lives in your tenant, your environments, your workspaces, under your licences. We build inside your Microsoft estate rather than ours, and documentation and a named second owner are part of delivery.
Power Platform when the users are internal and licensed, the data is modest, and speed matters. Custom when the logic is complex, the volume is large, the users are external, or per-user licensing would cost more than building it. We do both, so the recommendation is not driven by which one we can sell.
We'll tell you why it's slow and what it would take to fix — before anyone talks about licences.
