Data & BI
Power BI
Reporting people actually open, built on definitions everyone agrees on. Valto designs, builds and supports Power BI reporting for organisations replacing manual spreadsheets, fixing dashboards nobody trusts, or trying to work out why the reports they have are not being used. Our specialists handle the semantic model underneath, the design people interact with, and the adoption work that decides whether any of it gets opened twice.
Trusted by organisations like yours
Make better decisions with trusted data
Many organisations collect vast amounts of data but struggle to turn it into meaningful information. Reporting is often spread across multiple spreadsheets, systems and departments, making it difficult to get a complete view of business performance. The more common problem, though, is reporting that already exists and is not trusted. Two dashboards give different figures for the same month, nobody can say which is right, and people quietly go back to the spreadsheet they built themselves. Valto fixes both. Our specialists agree what each measure means and build it once in a semantic model, design reporting around the decisions people are actually making, and support the training and rollout that determines whether it gets used. We also audit what you already have, because most organisations are maintaining reports that no longer have an audience.
What can Valto deliver?
Our consultants assess your reporting requirements, the sources behind them and how decisions currently get made before recommending an approach. Every engagement is scoped around the reports people will use rather than the reports that are possible.
Executive and operational dashboards
Reporting designed around the decisions leadership and operational teams actually make, rather than around every field available in the source system.
Semantic models and agreed definitions
Define each measure once, correctly, so the same KPI means the same thing in every report and the number stops being the discussion.
Spreadsheet reporting replacement
Replace the manual extracts, pivot tables and monthly compilation work that current reporting depends on, with automated refresh from governed sources.
Existing report review and rescue
Inherited dashboards that are slow, wrong or unused? We audit what exists, establish which reports have a current audience, fix what is worth keeping and retire the rest.
Secure sharing and row-level security
Design who sees what, so one report can serve multiple teams, regions or clients without exposing figures they should not see.
Self-service enablement
Train and equip your own people to build reports, with the model, standards and guardrails that stop it becoming sprawl.
Our Power BI services
Build a foundation for better decisions
We'll assess your reporting landscape, understand stakeholder requirements and create a roadmap that supports trusted, meaningful business insight. That starts with the decisions rather than the data: what each stakeholder needs to decide, how often, and what would change their mind. Reports built from that brief get used; reports built from a field list do not.
Common reporting challenges we solve
Expertise for the reasons reporting isn't trusted
Many organisations spend hours manually compiling reports from multiple systems, only to question the accuracy of the results. Fragmented data, inconsistent KPIs and limited visibility make decision-making harder than it needs to be. Our consultants address these during design rather than after rollout. We help organisations address:
- The same KPI calculated differently in two reports, with no agreed definition
- Monthly reporting that depends on one person's spreadsheet and their availability
- Dashboards that are technically correct but too slow or dense to be used
- No visibility of which reports are actually being opened
- Self-service enthusiasm that has produced sprawl rather than insight
Don't just take our word for it
Turn Power BI capability into business value
Power BI provides the tool. The value comes from what gets measured, how it is defined and whether anyone acts on it. Our consultants target reporting at the decisions the business is actually measured on.
We're one of the UK's few Microsoft partners to hold all Microsoft Solution Partner designation badges, across all Solution Partner designation pathways. For our clients, that means working with specialists who understand the relationship between data, reporting and decision-making. Whether you're creating executive dashboards, modernising reporting processes or building a wider analytics platform, we help organisations turn data into meaningful business insight.
Why organisations choose Valto
Connected, across Microsoft
A report is only as good as what feeds it
Power BI shows you what your source systems contain. If two systems hold the same customer differently, or a field is filled in inconsistently, the dashboard presents that clearly and confidently, and gets blamed for it. Valto brings together expertise across Microsoft Fabric, Dynamics 365, Business Central, Power Apps, Power Automate, Azure and Microsoft 365. That lets our specialists fix the source or the model where the problem actually sits, rather than building a workaround in the report layer. It also means we can tell you when the answer is not more reporting. Sometimes the useful change is a process, a field made mandatory, or a definition somebody needs to own.
How we deliver Power BI projects
Our five-step process is clear and transparent from start to finish. From understanding the decisions reporting needs to support, through to designing, building and embedding reporting people rely on.
1Discovery
Outcomes & reporting challenges
We work with stakeholders to understand reporting requirements, identify pain points and define the insights that matter most to your organisation, including which existing reports are actually used.
2Design
The smarter reporting solution
Together we define dashboard structures, KPIs and user experiences to ensure reporting supports effective decision-making, agreeing the definition of each measure before anything is built.
3Build
Connected reporting
Our specialists develop Power BI dashboards, reporting models and integrations that create trusted visibility across the organisation, with the semantic model built first.
4Launch
Adoption & training
We help teams understand, use and gain value from reporting through training, support and rollout planning, including retiring the reports and spreadsheets the new reporting replaces.
5Optimisation
Keep ahead
As reporting requirements evolve, we help continually improve performance, governance and analytical capability.
Case study · Sportily
Valto improves data insights for Sportily with Microsoft Fabric and Power BI
Detailed dashboard analysis was provided through Microsoft Power BI enabling the charities leaders to monitor activity across the network, or to look at activity in a single location, or delivered by a specific team member.
- Improved decision making
- Enabling long term growth
The team driving you forward
““So often data captured is thrown into a black hole of data storage, [Valto's] solution enables us to monitor activity in real time and to present this in a useful format to those at all levels within the charity who can use it to inform decision making.””
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