Power BI Consultant
Power BI consulting services for Australian businesses: dashboards built on clean data from your job, stock, payroll and accounting systems
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What we do for clients
The Dashboard Is the Easy Part
It's the board meeting next week and the operations manager is in a spreadsheet called Monthly_KPIs_FINAL_v4.xlsx, copying job costs from one system, revenue from another and payroll hours from a third. Half the morning goes into making the numbers agree. By the time the report lands in the boardroom, it's two weeks old and someone still questions a figure on page three.
Power BI can put those numbers on screen in real time. But the dashboard is not the hard part. The hard part is getting clean, consistent data out of the job system, the accounting software, the payroll, the inventory and the three spreadsheets that fill the gaps, and joining it all into one model where the numbers actually match. That plumbing underneath the dashboard is what Kenomont builds.
As a Power BI consulting services provider for established Australian businesses, we work across the full stack: extracting data from each source, cleaning codes and categories so they line up, building the relationships between tables that make cross-system reporting possible, and then creating the dashboards people will actually open on Monday morning.
Kenomont has been connecting business systems for more than 20 years. Power BI is one reporting tool we use; the experience that matters is knowing how job systems, ERPs, inventory software and accounting packages actually store their data, and where the joins break.
Power BI Dashboards We Build
Each one pulls from several systems so the figures are in one place and always current.
Job profitability
Estimated vs actual costs, broken down by labour, materials, subcontractors and overheads. The figures come from your job system and your accounts, joined by job number, so they always agree.
Cash flow and aged debtors
Unpaid invoices, upcoming bills and committed purchase orders in one view. Useful when the numbers sit in separate entities or when the bookkeeper tracks some of it in a spreadsheet.
Stock and margin
Stock on hand, landed cost, sell price and margin by product line, pulling from your inventory or ERP system and your accounts. Wholesalers and manufacturers use this one most.
Workforce and payroll
Hours, overtime, leave balances and labour cost by team, site or job. The data usually lives in a mix of the roster, the timesheet system and payroll.
Operations and KPIs
Whatever numbers your operations manager tracks each week: output, utilisation, delivery on time, rework. The dashboard replaces the Monday morning spreadsheet.
Multi-entity consolidation
Combined financials and KPIs across two or more entities in Xero, MYOB or an ERP, with intercompany balances eliminated and consistent categories.
How a First Dashboard Project Runs
One dashboard first, proven, then the next.
Free initial chat
You tell us what questions the business needs answered and which systems hold the data. We tell you whether Power BI is the right tool.
Data review
We look at the source systems, work out how to extract the data and identify anything that needs cleaning or mapping before it will join up properly.
Build the model
A data layer pulls from each system, cleans and joins the figures and loads them into a Power BI dataset on a schedule. This is the foundation; get it wrong and the dashboards tell lies.
Dashboard and testing
We build the reports your team asked for, then sit down with the people who will use them and check the numbers against what they know.
Training and handover
Your team learns how to read the dashboards, apply filters and spot when something looks off. We document the data model so it can be maintained.
Why the Data Layer Matters More Than the Dashboard
A Power BI dashboard is only as good as what feeds it. If the data underneath is wrong, the report looks polished but the figures mislead. The data layer is where most Power BI projects go wrong, and it is where we spend most of our time.
What the data layer does:
- Pulls data from each source system on a schedule, so the numbers are always current.
- Cleans inconsistencies: a customer called "Smith Builders" in the job system and "Smith Building Pty Ltd" in the accounts still shows as one row.
- Maps codes and categories across systems, so a cost centre in payroll lines up with a job in the estimating software and an account in Xero or MYOB.
- Handles the joins that make cross-system questions possible: "What is the real margin on this job, including labour from the timesheet system?"
- Logs errors so someone knows when a feed breaks, instead of the dashboard quietly going stale.
If your current dashboard only shows data from one system, or someone is still copying figures into it by hand, the data layer is usually what is missing.
When Power BI Is Not the Answer
Not everything needs a BI tool. We'll tell you if a simpler option does the job.
- All the data is in one system. If your reporting only needs figures from Xero, MYOB or your ERP, the built-in reports or a simple export may be enough. Power BI earns its keep when you need to join data from several systems.
- The team just needs a weekly email. A scheduled spreadsheet extract or a PDF report is cheaper to build and easier to maintain than a dashboard nobody logs into.
- The data is a mess. If duplicate customers, inconsistent codes and missing records are the real problem, building a dashboard on top just visualises the mess. Data cleansing comes first.
- A spreadsheet genuinely works. If five people look at a two-tab spreadsheet once a month and it takes ten minutes to update, leave it alone.
When the reporting is straightforward but the systems need connecting, see business intelligence and analytics for a broader view, or Xero and MYOB reporting dashboards for accounting-specific reports.
Related Reporting and Data Services
Construction KPI dashboards
Job margins, WIP, cash flow and subcontractor spend for builders and contractors.
Construction dashboards →All your data in one dashboard
How we combine data from several business systems into a single reporting layer.
One dashboard →Power BI with Xero or MYOB
Connecting Power BI to your accounting software when a simple connector falls short.
Power BI and Xero or MYOB →One set of numbers everyone trusts
Getting disconnected systems to agree, so reporting starts from clean data.
Single source of truth →Power BI Consulting Questions
Which Numbers Take the Longest to Pull Together?
Tell us which report eats the most time and where the data sits. We'll tell you whether Power BI is the right tool and what the first step looks like.
Free initial chat. No sales pressure - if we're not the right fit, we'll say so.
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