Turn messy Power BI files into trusted, performant dashboards. Fix broken YTD, eliminate manual reporting, and build data models that scale.
Power BI is deceptively simple. Connect a data source, drag some fields, and you've got a dashboard. But building something that works well at scale—something your team trusts and can maintain—is a different challenge.
I work with businesses who've hit that wall. The finance team has three different versions of the truth. Sales dashboards take forever to load. YTD calculations are wrong for your fiscal year. And you're dependent on one person who understands the DAX.
Digital Adaption fixes these problems. I bring proper data modelling, robust DAX, and governance to Power BI—so you get dashboards that perform, measures you can trust, and a solution your team can extend without calling me every month.
These issues show up in almost every Power BI engagement I take on.
Finance reports one profit margin, operations reports another. Sales figures don't match the ERP. No one knows which dashboard to trust, and meetings get derailed arguing about numbers.
Weeks spent copying and pasting data into Excel. Month-end close means pulling figures from multiple systems and reconciling by hand. By the time the report is ready, the insights are stale.
YTD shows calendar year instead of fiscal year. Month names sort alphabetically instead of chronologically. Comparing this April to last April returns the wrong period.
Reports take 30+ seconds to load. Visuals refresh every time you click a slicer. Large datasets bring the browser to a crawl. Users give up and go back to Excel.
A complete Power BI solution designed for your business—not a generic template.
Star-schema models with proper relationships, calculated columns for business logic, and dimensions that support your reporting needs—including fiscal calendars and custom hierarchies.
Clean, intuitive reports designed around your decisions—not what's easy to build. Drill-through capabilities, slicers that work together, and mobile-optimized layouts.
Robust calculations that handle edge cases. Time intelligence that respects your fiscal year. Measures that are documented, tested, and reusable across your report suite.
Documentation so your team understands what they're looking at. Naming conventions for measures and tables. Training so you can maintain and extend what we build together.
I review your existing Power BI files, data sources, and reporting requirements. We identify quick wins and structural issues.
We build a proper data model—star schema, relationships, fiscal calendar, and calculated tables for business logic.
I write robust DAX measures for your KPIs, including YTD, YoY, and variance calculations that work with your fiscal year.
We build dashboards that prioritise clarity—right visuals, right filters, right drill-through actions for your workflows.
We reconcile against source systems, test edge cases, and get stakeholder sign-off before deployment.
Specific Power BI problems I solve for UK businesses every week.
These issues are so common that I've written detailed guides on how to fix them:
Most Power BI problems stem from the same structural issues. I can audit your current setup and give you a clear roadmap to fix it—or we can build it right from scratch.