Data is the driving force of the most progressive and successful companies and is more available than ever before, but it is not useful until consolidated into meaningful reports directly tied to business objectives.
Blue Margin’s consultative approach paired with Power BI is helping commercial services companies implement data transformation quickly and successfully. Data transformation drives ownership mentality through your company and keeps your team aligned on the highest-value priorities. Executives and individual contributors alike need visibility and easy access to on-time performance metrics to support their work.
Why Power BI?
Released in 2014, Microsoft Power BI leads the industry in business analytics software. The platform is seamlessly integrated into the Microsoft ecosystem, delivering the most capable toolset (according to both Gartner and Forrester) while remaining the lowest-cost solution in its class. The Blue Margin team uses Power BI to create streamlined dashboards that allow companies to get a clear pulse on individual, departmental, and company-wide performance.
Power BI visualizations allow users to see historical, current, and anticipated performance. The platform identifies and renders patterns that surface risks and opportunities quickly. Dashboards keep the most important metrics at the forefront, helping companies stay ahead of their competitors.
How Power BI Works for Commercial Services
Using Power BI, commercial service organizations can create a reporting command center that empowers leaders and staff to proactively manage value-creation initiatives across operations, finance, and customer performance.
Keeping data accessible and actionable allows employees to monitor progress against measurable goals and understand how their work supports the company’s growth and vision. Employees with visibility into individual and team performance are more satisfied, motivated, and inclined to take ownership of their roles. Increased compensation alone does not drive productivity as effectively as once believed—employee satisfaction is a stronger predictor, and transparency is the path to satisfaction.
Power BI’s analytics tools help commercial services teams think more like business owners and less like isolated individual contributors. By clearly defining what “winning” looks like for each role, organizations can align effort and accelerate progress toward success.
Companies such as CoolSys (see the article on the power of BI in Commercial Services with Adam Coffey ) and Smart Care have used Power BI to rise to the top of their industries by gaining tactical and strategic insight into performance areas including:
- Work order efficiency (first-time fix percentage and trends)
- Labor performance (utilization, overtime, and travel)
- Cash flow forecasting
- Accounts receivable
Blue Margin’s Commercial Services HQ is a collection of best-practice dashboards designed to quickly put organizations on the path to better visibility, faster action, and smarter decision-making across the business.
