Business Intelligence
Business Intelligence
Turn data into a real business advantage
Power BI is Microsoft’s leading platform for Business Intelligence — a tool that brings together data from across your organization and transforms it into clear, visual, and actionable insights. Instead of drowning in Excel sheets, manual reports, and disconnected numbers, you gain a unified overview that makes it easier to make decisions, spot trends, and act quickly.
What Power BI can
- Visualize complex data in intuitive dashboards that everyone can understand
- Automate reporting and eliminate manual processes
- Consolidate data from multiple systems (e.g., Business Central, Navision, CRM, Excel, SQL, and custom solutions)
- Provide real‑time data so decisions are based on facts, not gut feeling
- Deliver deeper insights with AI that identifies patterns and predicts developments
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How we help our customers
At MDC Nordic, Business Intelligence is a natural extension of our strong ERP expertise. We help you:
- Create transparency across finance, sales, inventory, projects, operations, and more
- Consolidate data from your entire Microsoft platform
- Build reports that make sense for your organization
- Automate reporting and free up time for more important tasks
- Train your employees so BI becomes part of everyday work
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What Power BI Can Do for Your Business:
Data Visualization
A BI solution enables detailed and interactive visualizations that make complex data easy to understand. This helps employees at all levels grasp performance and trends.
Improved Decision-Making
By providing access to real-time data and in-depth analysis, Power BI helps you make well-informed decisions faster. Its user-friendly dashboards allow you to track KPIs and other key metrics in real time.
Increased Efficiency
Power BI automates many manual processes associated with data collection and reporting, freeing up time and resources for more strategic tasks.
Seamless Integration
Power BI integrates seamlessly with other Microsoft solutions such as Azure, Excel, SQL Server, and Dynamics 365 (Business Central and CRM). This creates a cohesive experience and enables broader analysis across platforms.
AI-Driven Analytics
Use built-in AI features to identify trends, make predictions, and gain deeper insights into your data. Power BI’s AI tools help you uncover hidden patterns and opportunities that might otherwise go unnoticed.
Scalable and Flexible Solution
Power BI is scalable and adaptable for businesses of all sizes. Whether you’re a small startup or a large multinational company, Power BI can be tailored to meet your specific needs.
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What can Power BI be used for?
Power BI is far more than beautiful charts. It helps businesses understand their data, uncover patterns, and make better decisions. Here are some concrete examples:
Finance and budget follow‑up
- Track budget vs. actuals in real time
- Identify deviations before they become issues
- Drill down from totals to individual transactions in seconds
- Automate reports that previously took hours in Excel
Sales and pipeline
- Overview of pipeline, hit rate, and forecast
- See which products, customers, or sales reps perform best
- Identify lost opportunities and reasons
- Understand customer behavior and buying patterns
Procurement and inventory management
- Overview of stock levels, turnover rates, and margins
- Predict backorder risks
- Identify items tying up unnecessary capital
- Optimize purchasing based on historical data
Project management
- Overview of project finances, hours, progress, and resources
- Compare planned vs. actual consumption
- Identify projects at risk
- Visualize employee workload
Operations and performance
- KPI overview across departments
- Real‑time monitoring of key figures
- Identify process bottlenecks
- Consolidate data from multiple systems into one dashboard
HR and organization
- Overview of sick leave, turnover, and well‑being
- Recruitment pipeline analysis
- Understand capacity needs and resource usage
For self‑governing institutions
- Financial follow‑up across accounts, activities, and departments
- Visualization of grants, budgets, and financial statements
- Analysis of student numbers, absence, and activity levels
Case: From manual processes to financial overview in a few clicks
Københavns Åbne Gymnasium saved 200 hours per year
Do You Have Questions?
Check our FAQ and find answers.
Power BI + Business Central
Tailored for self‑governing institutions
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Power BI enables dynamic visualization and analysis of financial data. With MDC Nordic’s Chart of Accounts report, it becomes even more powerful.
The report is inspired by the classic Navision income statement but built for Power BI, allowing you to work dynamically with data and adapt the overview to your needs. With a few clicks, you can shift perspective from total budget to individual invoices and identify deviations early.
With the Chart of Accounts report in Power BI, you get:
- A visual and user‑friendly overview
- Direct integration with Navision
- Drilldown functionality
Our report gives you a Power BI solution built around your needs, so you spend less time reporting and more time making the right decisions.
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FAQ: Business Intelligence
Microsoft Power BI is part of the Power Platform and is a data analysis, visualization, and reporting tool that businesses use to aggregate data from different sources, analyze trends, and optimize decision-making processes.
Power BI Desktop: Free Windows app for developing and designing reports and dashboards.
Power BI Service: Cloud-based platform for sharing, collaborating, and distributing reports.
Power BI Mobile: App for smartphones and tablets that provides access to dashboards on the go.
Power BI supports integration with over 100 data sources, including Excel, SQL Server, Google Analytics, Azure, SharePoint, Salesforce, Web APIs, and many more.
Yes! With Power BI, you can schedule automatic data refreshes so your dashboards always show the latest data without manual updating.
DAX (Data Analysis Expressions) is Power BI’s formula language used for advanced calculations, metrics, and KPIs. It works similarly to Excel formulas, but with greater flexibility and functionality.
Yes. Power BI integrates seamlessly with Microsoft 365 (Excel, Teams, and SharePoint), Azure, and Dynamics 365 (for CRM and ERP integrations), making it easy to use your company’s existing data across platforms.
Power BI Desktop is free.
Power BI Pro costs a monthly fee per user and allows for sharing of reports.
Power BI Premium is for larger companies with needs for advanced data processing and higher performance.
Yes, there are different sharing options:
- Within your organization: Requires a Power BI Pro license.
- External: Requires either a PRO license for the recipient or a Premium license for the sender.
- Publish to web: Public sharing without the need for login (not recommended for sensitive data)
While Excel is great for data processing and table analysis, Power BI is great for:
- Interactive dashboards and visualizations.
- Data integration from multiple sources.
- Automated updates and collaboration.
Absolutely! Even public companies can benefit from data visualization and reporting. We have, among other things, a chart of accounts report that was developed specifically for private institutions.
If you need to get started with Microsoft Power BI, contact us today for advice on the best solution for your company.
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