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Business intelligence

See the whole business, in numbers you trust.

From messy source data to dashboards your board relies on, we build the reporting layer your finance team can trust, and the analytics to act on it.

Why business intelligence is important.

Horizons Advisory Power BI Dashboard Example
Horizons Advisory Power BI Dashboard Example

The power of data is often underestimated. It holds an abundance of information about your business, and knowing how to use it properly can be the difference between a trend of growth and success, and one of stagnation and decline.
 

Anyone can pull the big headline numbers you want to see, but they rarely tell the full story. The meaningful insight comes when you dive deeper into the many permutations and combinations your data holds, and there are always more than you'd expect. Maximising its potential helps unlock yours. After all, if it's there, use it.
 

We work with you, as a team, to analyse your data and identify how that information can be extracted and translated into metrics that highlight where you're succeeding and expose the areas that need attention.
 

And it's not just what the data tells you, but how it looks. We make sure reports are clear, easy to read, and genuinely usable, not just accurate. We take pride in our design flair and in adapting each report to you, so what you get is a high-quality product that's uniquely yours.

Built for finance, by finance

Everything behind a dashboard you can trust.

What you get

Access. Explore. Drill. Insight. Live. Ask.

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Mobile, tablet, desktop

The same governed dashboards on every screen, so the numbers travel with your team wherever they work.

Self-service exploration

Slice, filter and drill into the numbers yourself, without waiting on a new report or a request to IT.

Drill-through to detail

Move from a headline KPI down to the underlying transaction in a click, so every figure can be traced.

Trend & variance insight

Analytics that explain the movement behind the number, showing what changed, by how much and why.

Near real-time dashboards

Operational metrics that move as the business does, so you're acting on today, never last week's export.

Ask questions in plain English

Question your data in natural language and get an answer back, no formulas, no report-building required.

Fact to dimensions

Modelled around your data.

The Stack

The job each application does.

Business intelligence isn't a single tool, it's a chain, data cleaned, then modelled, then trusted, then acted on. Each part of the Microsoft stack does one job in that chain; the value is in how they connect, raw source data at one end, to a beautiful visualisation your teams rely on at the other.

Dataflows Gen2 & Power Query

It cleans, shapes and combines data from your different sources into consistent, reusable tables before anything reaches a report, so every dashboard is built on the same trusted figures rather than one-off extracts.

Microsoft Fabric

It brings storage, pipelines and modelling together in one place through OneLake, so your BI runs off a single governed source instead of a scatter of disconnected files and databases.

Microsoft Power BI

It turns your modelled data into interactive dashboards and reports, letting you slice by entity, period or category and drill from a headline number straight down to the detail behind it.

SharePoint

It puts your finished reports and dashboards where your team already works, so everyone can reach the model in a familiar place without hunting for links or logins, and always sees the same up-to-date version.

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Get started!

Bring us one reporting headache, a close that is out of control, a reconciliation that keeps breaking, a board pack rebuilt by hand each month, and we'll show you what can be done.

Built and run by chartered professionals, the people who'll do the work, not a sales team.

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