Consolidated Data and Holistic View in Interactive Dashboards

Power BI allows to combine data from multiple sources and make it into a single dataset. You can clean raw data by using Power Query that allows you to remove duplicates, change data and fill missing values, and combine them by using techniques like ‘merging’ tables or ‘combining’ data.

Organisations can greatly benefit from having a consolidated data. Imaging being in a dynamic field like the construction industry where multiple data comes in every day, having a convenient holistic view helps the project managers and employees analyse trends across multiple datasets effectively and efficiently, and create dashboards coming from different sources. Example use-case scenarios that integrate Power BI data consolidation are financial reporting from multiple subsidiaries, sales analysis across regions and products, project performance monitoring, and many more. This key feature helps organisations and companies stay on top of the schedule and budget.

Real-time Tracking and Data Updates

Power BI updates the dashboards without even needing to refresh it manually. Project managers, supervisors, and executives can track and monitor updates in real time, which aids in making immediate decisions and insights into the project, and respond quickly to changes in the operations and market trends. Operations can be optimised with live tracking of KPIs for improved operational efficiency, and problems or potential issues can be proactively identified in the early stages.

Easily Accessible, Enhanced Collaboration, Team Collaboration Tools

With Power BI’s cloud-based platform, project managers, engineers, supervisors, and the management can access their dashboards, reports, and analytics whenever, wherever. Power BI supports cross-device compatibility and users can work on their smart phones, tablets, and desktops. Power BI also allows to customise dashboards meaning organisations can design dashboards for specific departments that cater to their needs. They can only see data relevant for their department. Multiple users can even work simultaneously on a dashboard in Power BI. Teams can share dashboards and reports with other teams or groups. Team members can also add comments directly unto reports that allow discussions and conversation. All of these accessible features in Power BI foster enhanced and real-time collaboration.

Custom Visualisations and Reporting

The visualisation features of Power BI include diverse chart types like car charts, line charts, column charts, pie charts, matrix charts, and more used for interpreting and highlighting different types of data. Power BI’s customisable feature allows users to create custom visuals for specific data presentation and design dashboards using tiles and other formatting options. Aside from customisable interactive dashboards for dynamic collaboration, Power BI has a drill-down function that allows users to view more data layers.

For project progress monitoring, organisations can track the progress of different projects. They can design dashboards and analytics in a way that shows milestones, finished operations, percentages, comparison between Gantt charts versus the actual progress, and many more.

For financial tracking, organisations can make use of the charts and display financial data in order to develop informed decisions and adjustments to make sure projects continue to stay within the budget.

For supplier tracking and procurement performance, organisations can visually see if there are any delays in the supplies and deliveries, and if the suppliers are reliable in general. They can utilise the charts to track procurement data.

With flexible visualisation, organisations can integrate other different types of construction data into Power BI Dashboards.