Power BI consulting services in Dubai

We start with what you produce today, not with what Power BI can do.

• Inputs: your current management pack, the workbooks and reports behind it, a list of who receives what and when, and read access to the systems those reports come from.
• Activities: we trace each number in the pack back to its source, note where figures are re-keyed or adjusted by hand, and interview the people who build and the people who read the reports.
• Deliverables: a reporting inventory (every report, its source, its owner, its audience) and a short findings note listing where numbers are duplicated, contradicted or unowned.
• Client sign-off: agreement on which reports the engagement will replace, which it will leave alone, and which should simply stop.

This is where most of the arguments happen, which is why it is a separate phase with its own sign-off.

• Inputs: the reporting inventory, the list of KPIs leadership says it needs, and two or three hours of subject-matter time from finance and operations.
• Activities: one or two definition workshops. For each KPI we write the plain-English definition, the formula, the grain (by entity, branch, customer, day), the source field and the known exceptions. We also decide here whether any labels need to be displayed in Arabic as well as English, because that affects the model, not just the report.
• Deliverables: a measure dictionary (the KPI definitions in a form you keep), and a data map showing which system supplies each field and how the systems join.
• Client sign-off: the measure dictionary. Once signed, a KPI definition changes only through a written change, never quietly in a report.

A short phase with long consequences: which Power BI licence, where the data sits, and how it gets there.

• Inputs: the data map, your Microsoft 365 tenant details, user counts by role, and any data-residency requirement your board, regulator or free-zone authority has set.
• Activities: we compare Pro, Premium Per User and a Fabric capacity against your user count and refresh needs; decide whether an on-premises data gateway is needed (it usually is for Tally, on-premises SQL Server and file shares); and confirm the Azure region, noting that UAE North and UAE Central are available where residency matters. We also apply the warehouse-or-not test described further down this page.
• Deliverables: an architecture note, one or two pages, with the licence recommendation, the gateway placement, the workspace layout and the residency position, plus a licence cost estimate at list price.
• Client sign-off: the architecture note and the licence purchase, which you make in your own tenant.

The model is the product; the reports are its front end.

• Inputs: the signed measure dictionary, the data map, the architecture note and working access to the sources.
• Activities: Power Query connections and transformations that fold to the source where the source allows it; a star schema with a proper date table that carries the Gregorian calendar, your fiscal year and the Ramadan and Eid periods as attributes; measures written from the dictionary; row-level security by entity, branch or role; and a refresh schedule with failure alerts.
• Deliverables: the semantic model published to a development workspace, a reconciliation workbook showing the model’s totals against the source system’s totals for an agreed period, and the measure dictionary updated with the final DAX.
• Client sign-off: the reconciliation. Your finance team confirms that the model’s revenue, cost, balances and counts match the ledger and the operational system for the test period.

Reports are built one page per question, against the signed model.

• Inputs: the model, the page list from the scope, and the people who will use each page.
• Activities: a sketch of each page is agreed before it is built; pages are then built with consistent number formats (AED thousands or millions, chosen once), comparable-period logic that handles Ramadan and Eid shifts, drill paths from summary to transaction, and mobile layouts where the scope calls for them.
• Deliverables: the report set in the test workspace, a one-page guide per report, and the design decisions recorded so a later page follows the same rules. The Power BI dashboard development Dubai page describes the design rules in full.
• Client sign-off: each report page reviewed by its intended audience, not only by the project sponsor.

For one or two reporting cycles the new reports run alongside the old pack.

• Inputs: the completed reports, the existing pack for the same period, and the finance calendar.
• Activities: every variance between old and new is traced to a cause, which is almost always a definitional difference that was hiding in the old workbook. Refresh reliability is observed across the cycle, including any month-end load on the source systems.
• Deliverables: a variance log with each difference explained and a decision recorded, and the reports promoted to the production workspace.
• Client sign-off: written acceptance that the new reports replace the old pack from a named month.

The engagement ends when someone inside your business can run the estate, not when the last visual is placed.

• Inputs: the named owner (agreed at the start), the report users, and the documentation produced in the earlier phases.
• Activities: an owner workshop on your own model covering refresh, gateway, access and how to change a measure safely; a shorter briefing for report readers on filters, drill and subscriptions. The formats are described on the corporate Power BI training Dubai page.
• Deliverables: the measure dictionary, the architecture note, the report guides and a short runbook, all in your tenant and your document store, not ours.
• Client sign-off: the owner confirms they can complete the runbook tasks unaided.

Some businesses want the estate looked after rather than run it themselves.

• Inputs: the handover pack and a change allowance agreed for the coming months.
• Activities: refresh monitoring, source-change fixes when an ERP is upgraded or an entity is added, and a monthly change window for new measures and pages.
• Deliverables: a monthly report of refresh success, requests closed and risks noted, under the scope described on the Power BI managed services UAE page.
• Client sign-off: a separate, monthly-fee agreement. It is optional and it is never a condition of the build.