One-off advice or training
Do you have specific questions, need a second opinion or want to help your team move forward? Our experts can review, advise or deliver tailored Power BI training from as little as one day.
Power BI consultancy
A Power BI consultant who works temporarily alongside your team
Datalab helps with Power BI when you need specialist knowledge: a second opinion, training, help with DAX or data models, dashboard performance, governance or complete project delivery. From one day of review to months of support by a consultant or team.
100% independent
Advice from your interests
Daily Power BI work
DAX, models and dashboards
Flexible engagement
One-off, regular or project-based
Consultancy
When should you choose a Power BI consultant?
A consultant is suitable when you temporarily need high-quality Power BI expertise. You already have a team, reporting process or project, but lack specialist capacity to move forward faster or better. Our consultant then works with you, critically reviews choices and transfers knowledge to your people.
That differs from our broader dashboard and BI services. There, we more often take on the full question: from KPIs and data sources to data model, dashboard, adoption and management. Consultancy is more focused: adding exactly the specialist knowledge that is missing now.
Related services
Three ways to engage our Power BI consultants
The form depends on your question, urgency and internal capacity. We keep the engagement practical and transparent: small when that is enough, broader when the project requires it.
Regular help when you need us
Do you use Power BI often and want quick sparring on modelling, DAX, visualisations or management? With periodic support or retained hours, you involve our experts at the moments that matter.
Project-based support for larger work
For larger Power BI projects, we provide temporary capacity for analysis, design, build, review and transfer. That can be a consultant, senior specialist or small team, from a few weeks to several months.
Consultancy stays concrete: temporary specialist support, not automatically a fully managed BI project. When that is needed, our dashboard, data warehouse and data strategy services connect to it.
Expertise
What our Power BI consultants help with
Power BI is popular because users can create dashboards quickly. Precisely because of that, questions often arise over time about performance, definitions, DAX, permissions, management and reliability. Our consultants work daily on dashboards and apps that are used intensively.
We help with simple reports, but also with complex DAX queries, connections to data warehouses, data models, governance, publishing in Power BI Service and dashboards used by several teams.
From practice
Why Power BI often needs specialist help
Power BI Desktop makes it easy to start. But once dashboards become business-critical, the question changes: definitions must be unambiguous, calculations must be correct, reports must remain fast and users must know which figures are leading.
That is why our consultants look beyond the chart. We also assess the data structure, model choices, adoption and manageability. This prevents Power BI from becoming a collection of separate reports that only the original maker still understands.
Approach
Our approach to Power BI consultancy
We start with the context: what needs to improve, who uses the dashboard and where does the team get stuck? Then we choose the smallest engagement that is sufficient to make progress.
For short questions, we work with you directly or give focused advice. For larger projects, we agree scope, roles, transfer and the moment your team can continue independently.
Independent from suppliers
We advise on Power BI from the perspective of your users, data foundation and operating context. Not from licence sales or vendor interest.
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Clarify the question and engagement
We determine whether you need advice, training, regular help or project-based capacity.
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Assess dashboard, model and process
We look at user needs, DAX, data model, performance, permissions and dependencies.
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Work with you, improve and explain
We solve concrete bottlenecks and make choices understandable for the people who need to continue with them.
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Transfer and follow-up
We document what is needed, transfer knowledge and advise on further BI or data platform choices.
Experience with organisations that rely on management information
Datalab works for retail, accountancy, public organisations, healthcare, logistics and knowledge-intensive teams.
They also trust Datalab
Frequently asked questions
Frequently asked questions about hiring a Power BI consultant
Practical answers for organisations looking for temporary Power BI expertise.
Can Datalab also review something once?
Yes. For a second opinion, dashboard review, DAX question, performance issue or short training, we can help from one day. If the question becomes broader, we connect it to our services for Dashboards & BI or Data strategy & consulting.
Do you also provide Power BI training?
Yes. We provide tailored Power BI training, focused on your own dashboards, data sources and user level. That often works better than a generic course, especially when training is part of our approach to adoption and transfer.
Can you provide temporary capacity for a larger project?
Yes. For larger projects, we can work with you on data models, dashboard build, review, governance or transfer. When the data foundation also needs improvement, we combine this with Data warehouse setup or Analytics & AI.
What does a Power BI consultant cost?
That depends on the engagement model. We quote for one-off help, retained hours for regular support and larger projects. For larger or longer engagements, we can apply attractive discounts and build in a sensible growth strategy: start with focus first, then expand once the value and need are clear. Schedule a call to determine the right form.
When is a broader dashboard or BI service more logical than consultancy?
If the question is not only about Power BI, but also about KPI choices, data sources, data quality, data warehouse, adoption and management, our broader Dashboards & BI service is often a better fit. For direction, roadmap and governance, Data strategy & consulting is usually the better start.
Do you also have complete solutions by sector or question?
Yes. Alongside individual consultancy and services, we work on complete solutions for accountancy firms and finance teams, CFOs and controllers. This lets us connect Power BI consultancy to the broader management information, data foundation and processes of your organisation.
Do you only work with Power BI?
No. Datalab is independent and also works with Tableau consultancy, R Shiny consultancy, data models, data warehouses and analytics solutions. Power BI is often a good choice, but not automatically the best choice for every situation. Also view our broader Dashboards & BI service.
Next step
Discuss your situation with a specialist
In a short conversation, we determine the right engagement model, approach and specialist for your needs.
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