Power BI by industry in the UAE
Power BI is the same tool in every sector; the model underneath it is not. A logistics business needs cost per shipment on the same list of jobs that finance invoices; a developer needs collections against a payment plan beside construction progress; a hotel needs the daily flash to reconcile to the month-end P&L. These pages set out what a model for each sector contains, with KPI definitions, the systems involved and a demo you can open. Four sectors anchor the Gulf economy and get the deepest treatment.
Nothing on these pages claims sector experience. They describe what the work involves and what the finished model contains, so you can judge whether the approach fits before a call. Every build is quoted as a fixed price against a written scope, delivered remotely on Gulf Standard Time hours, seven days.
Four sectors, in depth
Each has a full page with formula-level KPI definitions, a table of the systems it typically connects and how each one behaves, the calendar logic the model has to hold, and a demo built on synthetic data.
Logistics & Supply Chain
Freight forwarders, 3PLs, last-mile fleets and distributors running their own warehouses around Jebel Ali, Dubai South, KIZAD and the Sharjah free zones. The model puts cost, service and utilisation on the same list of jobs that finance invoices.
- KPI: Cost per shipment
- All direct costs attributable to a shipment, in AED, divided by the number of shipments in the period, by route, customer and mode. Formula: (Fuel + driver cost + tolls + third-party carrier + handling + customs fees) ÷ shipments completed
- Also defined on the page
- OTIF (on time, in full); Fleet utilisation, and 7 more.
- Systems usually involved
- TMS and WMS (SAP EWM, Infor, Manhattan, Blue Yonder, Odoo Inventory, custom), telematics, Dubai Trade and Mirsal 2 declaration exports, Tally, Odoo or SAP Business One, fuel-card and Salik statements, Excel dispatch sheets.
- Open
- Logistics and supply chain analytics for Dubai and the UAE · Open the logistics and supply chain demo (synthetic data, not client data)
Real Estate
Three businesses sharing a word: developers (off-plan sales, collections against payment plans, construction progress), brokerages (leads, listings, agent performance) and property managers (occupancy, rent roll, post-dated cheques, service charges). Each gets its own model.
- KPI: Sales absorption
- Units sold as a share of units launched, by project and launch phase, with sales velocity as units sold per week since launch. Formula: Units with a signed sale agreement ÷ units released for sale; velocity = units sold ÷ weeks since launch
- Also defined on the page
- Collections versus plan; Progress versus collections, and 7 more.
- Systems usually involved
- Yardi, MRI, Property Finder, Bayut and Dubizzle exports, Salesforce, HubSpot or Zoho CRM, Odoo, SAP Business One or Business Central, Excel cheque registers, Ejari, Tawtheeq and DLD exports where the account provides them.
- Open
- Real estate analytics for Dubai, Abu Dhabi and the UAE · Open the real estate demo (synthetic data, not client data)
Hospitality
Hotels, serviced apartments, restaurant groups and caterers whose PMS and POS know what happened today while finance knows what happened last month. The model puts the daily flash and the month-end P&L on one set of definitions.
- KPI: Occupancy
- Rooms sold as a share of rooms available for sale, by night and by period. Formula: Rooms sold ÷ (total rooms − out-of-order rooms)
- Also defined on the page
- ADR (average daily rate); RevPAR, and 8 more.
- Systems usually involved
- Opera PMS, IDS, Protel, Cloudbeds; Micros and Simphony, Foodics, Revel; channel managers and OTA statements; STR files under the hotel’s own licence; Sun, SAP Business One, Odoo or Business Central; payroll for labour cost.
- Open
- Hospitality analytics for Dubai and the UAE · Open the hospitality demo (synthetic data, not client data)
Retail
Store retail in malls, e-commerce and marketplace selling, and general trading and distribution, the Gulf’s most common company type: goods bought in dollars, euros, yuan or rupees, landed through Jebel Ali, sold in dirhams on credit and paid for with cheques.
- KPI: Gross margin after landed cost
- Net sales less cost of goods where cost includes the purchase price converted at the booking rate plus freight, duty, clearing and inbound handling, by SKU, brand and customer. Formula: Net sales − (purchase cost in AED at booking rate + freight + duty + clearing + inbound handling), as AED and as % of net sales
- Also defined on the page
- Stock ageing and days of inventory; Sell-in versus sell-out, and 8 more.
- Systems usually involved
- LS Central, Oracle Xstore, Foodics or a custom POS; Tally, SAP Business One, Odoo, Business Central or NetSuite; Shopify, Salla, Magento; Noon and Amazon.ae seller reports; the WMS; Excel price lists and landed-cost sheets.
- Open
- Retail and trading analytics for Dubai and the UAE · Open the retail and trade demo (synthetic data, not client data)
Other sectors we build for
Grouped the way the menu groups them. Each line says what a model for that sector typically needs; the page behind it goes into the systems, the roles and the reporting problems.
Build and make — Projects, plant and margin.
Construction
A construction model typically needs cost to complete against budget by project, certified progress against billing, retention and variation ledgers, and subcontractor liabilities.
Explore industryManufacturing
A manufacturing model typically needs OEE by line and shift, yield and scrap, planned against actual output, maintenance cost per asset, and cost per unit reconciled to the ledger.
Explore industryEngineering
A engineering model typically needs utilisation and billable hours by discipline, work in progress against milestones, change orders, and project margin at completion.
Explore industryMining & Natural Resources
A mining and resources model typically needs tonnes moved and processed by site and shift, unit cost per tonne, equipment availability, contractor hours, and incident rates.
Explore industryMove and sell — The four sectors above, plus one.
Services and care — People, compliance and funding.
Healthcare
A healthcare model typically needs clinic and theatre utilisation, waiting times, cancellations, revenue by payer and service line, and staffing against demand.
Explore industryEducation
A education model typically needs enrolment and attendance by campus and term, fee collection and arrears, staff-to-student ratios, and cost per student by programme.
Explore industryProfessional Services
A professional services model typically needs utilisation and realisation by fee earner, work in progress and lock-up, pipeline by service line, and profit per partner or practice.
Explore industryGovernment & Public Sector
A government and public sector model typically needs service volumes and turnaround times, budget against actual by programme, contractor performance, and KPIs that reconcile to the published annual report.
Explore industryMoney and data — Numbers people bet the year on.
Finance
A finance model typically needs the month-end pack, cash and DSO, budget against actual by entity, intercompany elimination, and VAT by entity and return period.
Explore industryFinancial Services
A financial services model typically needs assets under management and flows, fee revenue by client and product, cost-to-income, and client concentration.
Explore industryInsurance
A insurance model typically needs gross written premium by line and channel, loss ratio and combined ratio, claims frequency and severity, and broker performance.
Explore industryTechnology
A technology model typically needs monthly and annual recurring revenue, churn and net revenue retention, acquisition cost and payback, and support volumes and resolution times.
Explore industryEvery other sector in the catalogue
The same approach applies: the systems, the KPI definitions and the reporting rhythm of the sector decide the model, not the tool.
Pharmaceuticals
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Explore industryEnergy & Utilities
Explore industryEnvironmental Services & Waste Management
Explore industryAerospace & Defence
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Explore industryAged Care
Explore industryNonprofit & NGO
Explore industryHuman Resources
Explore industryPrivate Equity Portfolio Performance
Explore industryBanking
Explore industryCommercial Real Estate
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Explore industryTelecommunications
Explore industryMedia & Entertainment
Explore industrySports & Recreation
Explore industryTravel & Tourism
Explore industryEvent Management
Explore industryTransportation
Explore industryLeadership and role dashboards
Cut by the person reading the page rather than by sector: what a CEO, CFO, COO or CIO page carries, whichever industry the business is in.
CFO Dashboards
CFO reporting needs a reliable bridge between finance detail, operational drivers, and executive decision-making rather than a collection of disconnected monthly packs. We help turn that fragmented reporting environment into something leadership and managers can use with more confidence.
Explore dashboardCEO Dashboards
CEO reporting needs one clear view across revenue, margin, operations, cash, and strategy execution rather than multiple numbers from multiple owners. We help turn that fragmented reporting environment into something leadership and managers can use with more confidence.
Explore dashboardCOO Dashboards
COO reporting is where operational noise, inconsistent KPIs, and fragmented site performance quickly become decision friction. We help turn that fragmented reporting environment into something leadership and managers can use with more confidence.
Explore dashboardCIO Dashboards
CIO reporting often spans service levels, delivery risk, data quality, project status, platform cost, and architecture visibility across many disconnected systems. We help turn that fragmented reporting environment into something leadership and managers can use with more confidence.
Explore dashboardCTO Dashboards
CTO reporting needs clean visibility across engineering delivery, platform reliability, data products, cost, and delivery throughput without endless manual updates. We help turn that fragmented reporting environment into something leadership and managers can use with more confidence.
Explore dashboardCMO Dashboards
Marketing and revenue reporting often suffers from channel fragmentation, inconsistent attribution, and too many extracts moving through spreadsheets. We help turn that fragmented reporting environment into something leadership and managers can use with more confidence.
Explore dashboardWhat is common to every sector
Four things go into the model on day one whichever industry it is for, because in the UAE they are the normal case rather than the exception.
Entity and emirate dimensions
A mainland LLC, a free-zone company and a branch in another emirate, each on its own ledger, are one group to the owner and three companies to the auditor. The model carries an entity dimension and an emirate dimension from the start, eliminates intercompany transactions in the model rather than in a workbook, and reports VAT by entity and return period so each entity’s figures can be reconciled to its own return. We are not tax agents; the treatment is your adviser’s, and the model reports what the ledger records under it.
AED, and the currencies behind it
Sales are in dirhams; purchases are often in dollars, euros, yuan or rupees, and GCC sales in riyals or dinars. The peg to the dollar makes one of those easy and the rest a policy question: which rate is a cost booked at? The model holds one written FX policy and shows the realised difference separately, so a margin change is never confused with a currency change.
A calendar the model understands
Ramadan moves by about eleven days a year, both Eids move with it, the summer trough and the October-to-April peak are fixed, and fiscal years vary by entity. The date table carries all of these as attributes, so a Ramadan month is compared with last year’s Ramadan month rather than the same calendar month, and every page has a comparable-period toggle that says which comparison is in force.
Row-level security
One model, many readers. A branch manager sees one branch, an outlet manager one outlet, a project SPV its own collections, and the group sees everything, from the same tables. Roles are written into the scope, tested before handover, and documented so the person who owns the model after us can add the next manager without calling anyone.
See the demos
One demo per sector, open in this site, nothing to install and nothing to sign up for. Each shows the layout, the KPI definitions and the interactions a finished build tends to have.
Logistics and supply chain demo
Drill from a customer’s lane margin to the shipments behind it; switch the comparable-period toggle to Ramadan-adjusted and watch OTIF change. Synthetic data, not client data.
Open the demoReal estate demo
Drill from portfolio occupancy to a building, then to a unit; change the project selector and watch escrow and Oqood status follow. Synthetic data, not client data.
Open the demoHospitality demo
Switch to the Ramadan-adjusted comparison and watch RevPAR and covers change; filter to one outlet and see labour cost and delivery share follow. Synthetic data, not client data.
Open the demoRetail and trading demo
Switch the margin cost basis between purchase price and landed cost and watch the brand ranking change; open the customer exposure page. Synthetic data, not client data.
Open the demoQuestions about Power BI by industry
Which industries do you serve?
Do you have pre-built industry dashboards?
Can one model serve several business units in different sectors?
How do the industry pages relate to the services?
How fixed pricing works
Every industry build is quoted before work starts, and the quote is the price. This is the sequence.
A short discovery call, no charge
Thirty minutes on GST hours, and a look at your current reports and the systems they pull from.
A written scope
Sources, the data model, pages and visuals, users and their security, training and handover. For an industry build it also names the sector definitions that apply and the entities and emirates covered.
A fixed quote against that scope
One number in writing. The quote is the price.
Surprises inside scope are our cost
If a source is messier than it looked, that is on us. If you want something outside the scope, we quote it separately, in writing, before doing it.
Payment stages
Agreed in the quote, in writing, before the work starts.
What it costs
The reporting diagnostic is a fixed AED 4,950. That is the whole amount. Nothing is added at checkout. It is the only thing here with a single price, because its scope does not change from one sector to the next.
An industry build is quoted, not sold from a page. Builds start at AED 15,500 and most land in the AED 15,500 to AED 62,000 range, moved by the number of source systems, how much the data needs repairing, the entities and emirates in scope and how many people are trained. Treat those as the starting point for the call; your written quote carries the number that applies to you.
Tell us which sector, and which systems
Four quick questions take about a minute. From there, a thirty-minute call at no charge on GST hours, and a written scope with a fixed price if it makes sense to go further.