Business Intelligence & Reporting Beratung
From data graveyard to clear decision-making foundation. Business Intelligence is much more than colorful dashboards. It's the strategic bridge between your raw data and profitable business decisions.
As a BI consultancy, we support you holistically: From neutral tool selection (Power BI, Tableau, Looker) to clean data modeling to self-service rollout across the entire company. We prevent "duck dashboards" that nobody uses and create acceptance.
Our process
KPI Design & Governance
- Strategic Definition: We clarify the purpose: Operational control or strategic analysis? Our metrics deliver real action triggers instead of data graveyards.
- Information Architecture: We capture granularity and frequency. We consistently separate "nice-to-have" from business-critical KPIs.
- Governance Check: We consider access permissions and role concepts already in the conceptual phase—not just during rollout.
The Effect: This is how we transform data graveyards into real management instruments.
Data Model & Semantics
- Single Source of Truth: We build clean data models instead of isolated "duck dashboards." With us, "revenue" means the same thing in every report—no more Excel chaos interpretations.
- Logic Before Optics: We validate business logic and data flows before the first visualization is created. This prevents expensive correction loops and later trust crises.
- User Involvement: Early stakeholder involvement promotes ownership. Success example MediaPrint: >80% acceptance rate through early involvement of specialist departments.
The Effect: So we discuss results, not the correctness of numbers.
Implementation & Scaling
- Tech Stack Integration: Tool-agnostic integration—whether Power BI, Tableau, or Looker. We prioritize governance and performance over tool features.
- Performance & Security: Focus on fast loading times and data protection. Data must arrive at decision-makers both securely AND performantly.
- Agile Rollout: Iterative cycles instead of big bang. Example MediaPrint: 87% time savings through agile optimization and team enablement.
The Effect: We enable teams for self-service—for sustainable growth without external dependency.
Strategic BI Consulting: From Architecture to GenBI Decision
Our Mission: Scalable Architecture Instead of Island Solutions
We elevate Business Intelligence to the next level: Away from "pretty pictures," toward a solid data strategy.
Our consulting begins long before the dashboard: We support neutral tool evaluation (Power BI, Tableau, Looker), define your data modeling, and ensure a Single Source of Truth that all departments trust.
The ROI of Our BI Consulting
- Time-to-Insight -50%: Clean models & AI deliver answers in seconds.
- Guaranteed Acceptance: User-centric design prevents "duck dashboards."
- Strategic Security: Tool decisions that scale long-term.
Practice: At MediaPrint, reporting efforts dropped by 87%, and at a leading eCommerce player, the architecture created real scalability. Want to secure your results too?
Your Path to Data-Driven Company (How We Proceed)
We don't just start building. In Phase 1 (Data Audit) and Phase 2 (BI Strategy), we lay the foundation. We clarify governance and architecture before implementing the solution in Phase 4. The focus is on sustainability and enabling your teams (Phase 5), so you can act independently long-term.
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How We Build Reporting & BI
From audit to strategy and implementation to enabling all employees - together we create the foundation for big data and data-driven decisions.
Status Check – The Audit
As the first step in building reporting and Business Intelligence, we analyze the company's existing data maturity—our Data Audit. We identify the first use cases for dashboards and reports that we develop and implement in further collaboration. We incorporate the company's weaknesses and requirements.
Developing a BI Strategy
Based on the audit, we develop a Business Intelligence strategy tailored to the company that considers both short- and long-term goals. We also review the tool stack and involve relevant stakeholders and the entire data department. Because a strategy must fit the culture and organization.
Data Integration and Preparation
In the next step, the strategy is implemented: Relevant data sources are integrated and a consistent, reliable data foundation is established. This data is structured and cleaned. This explicitly includes implementing Data Governance guidelines to guarantee the consistency of your KPIs across all business units. Without this foundation, you risk contradictory reports.
Implementation of Reporting and BI Solutions
Now we build your first dashboards! We at The Data Institute recommend software that fits the respective company and is state-of-the-art—because there's hardly anything worse than implementing software shortly afterward that is no longer modern and doesn't fit the rest of the tech stack. Dashboards and reports must be tailored to respective stakeholders.
Enabling Stakeholders
The newly created reports and BI solutions are then presented to respective stakeholders and adjusted for further requests.
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Reporting and BI in Our Framework
We always work with the framework of Organization, Culture, and Architecture.
Because in our opinion, these three areas are the most important factors for successfully anchoring data in the company long-term.
Reporting and Business Intelligence must also be embedded in this framework. Access to relevant data is an important step to increasing data awareness. Architecture describes the tools and systems necessary for BI, and in Organization, we define what responsibilities and structures look like regarding data use.
The Data Institute – The Strong Partner for Implementing Reporting and Business Intelligence
See data at a glance and make decisions based on it? That's the goal we want to achieve as consultants for our clients. Quick impact, but at the same time long-term strategies that make companies sustainable and successful.
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Frequently asked questions
Here we answer all important questions about our services. If you have any further questions, we will be happy to answer them.
That business departments can answer simple questions themselves without calling IT. However, this requires clean, curated datasets. We build these "Datamarts" so your controllers and marketers can work securely and independently.
There is no "best" tool, only the right one. PowerBI is strong in the Microsoft world, Tableau is the design king, Looker (GCP) is strong for data models. We help you choose the tool that fits your infrastructure and users.
Usually, it's due to poor usability or lack of trust in the numbers. We design dashboards based on UX principles ("Information Design") that are intuitive and answer exactly the questions the user has – nothing more, nothing less.
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