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Get the cut of spend you need, with no Power BI report to build first
Power BI answers nothing until someone has modeled the data and built the report, and every analyst who wants that report needs a seat. We clean the data once in code and put an agent on top, so the cut you need takes a sentence, on analytics you own in your own cloud.
Power BI cannot answer until someone builds the report
Before anyone sees a number in Power BI, someone models the data and builds the dashboard. The question waits on that work. When the cut you need is not on an existing report, you file a request and wait on whoever owns it.
Every analyst who wants to pull a chart needs a seat, billed for as long as you use it. The backlog of report requests sits behind the few people who hold the seats that can author.
We clean the data once, then an agent builds the cut as you ask for it
We reach the sources, normalize them, and make them queryable, cleaned once in code. Each new month appends to the same layer instead of being rebuilt by hand, and the crosswalks a team used to run in Excel become real data. Errors that hid in the manual pass get caught before anyone charts them.
An agent sits on that layer and answers in plain language, building the dashboard live as you ask for it. Ask for spend by vendor, by category, by month, and it builds in front of you, with no report to prepare first. A standing audit runs alongside it for duplicate payments, split POs, and off-policy spend, so the team works a queue instead of hunting for problems. A person still reads the number and makes the call.
You own the analytics, with no per-seat license to renew
The analytics ship as software into your own cloud, and you own them the day they ship. A per-seat license is rent: you pay for every analyst who needs a chart, every month, and own nothing when you stop. Here you pay to build it once, then for maintenance and continuous improvement, on software you hold.
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Start with the report you rebuild in Power BI every month
Show us the master file and what the team charts by hand, and we scope it. Or email hello@mcintoshsystems.com.