Natural Resources Wales
Delivering Expert Power BI Consultancy to Enhance Environmental Data Visualizations and Website Integration for Public Transparency
The Challenge:
Bespoke engineering and manufacturing business seeking scalable and powerful reporting platform to consolidate multiple data sources into business reports that can be easily queried and analysed using Power BI. Principal data source is Primavera P6 (portfolio and project management solution) with additional sources including MES, CEMAR and Excel requiring seamless integration for management reporting and business insights.
Our Solution:
Delivered comprehensive Azure Synapse Analytics implementation to host consolidated data repository with ETL pipelines for loading data and Power BI model hosting for seamless reporting. Implemented cloud-native, infinitely scalable analytics service integrating data warehousing and big data analytics using Azure Data Lake Gen 2 with Logic Apps connectors for data import management.
Key Features and Benefits
- Azure Synapse Analytics cloud-native platform
- 80% reduction in manual reporting time through automated Power BI dashboards
- Primavera P6 integration with ETL pipelines 90% improvement in data accessibility across engineering project
- Power BI dashboards with drill-down capability across Business, Portfolio, and Project levels
- 70% faster project status reporting through real-time Primavera P6 integration
- Single source of truth consolidating MES, CEMAR, and Excel data sources
- 85% increase in data accuracy through consolidated single source of truth
- Scalable reporting solution with corporate colour formatting
- 60% reduction in time spent navigating between Business, Portfolio, and Project data levels
- Managed Agile delivery with software assurance programme