Sharperlight makes Power BI easier to use…
We recommend using Sharperlight to surface the data that makes up your
Power BI Charts, Metrics and Gauges.
High-end Visualisation
Power BI provides users with ‘slick looking’ and high end graphical metrics and KPI’s, easing the consumption of your business intelligence and helping your teams get access to the data they need when they need it. Although an excellent tool, for the average user, Power BI’s data access methodology can be very time consuming and requires a high level of technical proficiency.
The Advantage
The ability to define the required dataset through our powerful query builder and data access layer, presents a significant advantage when using Sharperlight to aquire your data. Your team can then consume the data using Power BI, this approach minimises the complexity of data aquistion because your users are interfacing with the datamodel connectors in Sharperlight
Humanised Access
Power BI relies on the assumption that your data has been purposely built and neatly arranged into a format such as a ‘star schema’ for it’s use.
Sharperlight Datamodels however, provide a humanised access layer to the underlying data. Enabling Power BI over complex application databases without the need for a warehouse or datastore.
Self-Service Reporting
Sharperlight is squarely focussed on Self-Service reporting, enabling users across the organisation to gain access to the data that is needed, but at all levels. This all done without the need for the substantial investment required to adopt and fully integrate Power BI accross the enterprise.
Operational Reporting
With Sharperlight, in addition to the ability to acquire the data you need for these tools, users are able to focus on operational reporting too, i.e. an aged debtors report, these report types are not great for dashboards, but are essential for the running of any business.
Excellent Adoption
Sharperlight training can be covered in one day, minimising the cost and impact on the business and increasing take up of the software. We meet clients who have invested in high-end visualisation tools but have been unable to use them and are looking for something more intuitive.
Get the full power
Using Sharperlight accross your various datasources will not only enhance Power BI but you will benefit from the wider toolset providing an operational ‘multitool’ for data access across the wider enterprise, covering: access, input, manipulation, transformation, dissemination and visualisation…
