Dataracity
Construction · USA · Microsoft Fabric

Replacing manual Excel reporting with a unified Fabric and Power BI platform

A single source of truth in place of team-by-team spreadsheets — real-time insight, standardized definitions, and decisions the whole organization can make from the same numbers.

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IndustryConstruction
Company201–500 employees
CountryUnited States
FrameworkSTEAM
Results
4Systems unifiedOne Fabric-based model
40+Trusted KPIs in the modelDefined once, reused everywhere
8Interactive Power BI reportsProjects, operations, financials
DailyReporting cadenceUp from monthly cycles
Software used
Microsoft FabricAnalytics platformPython & SQLTransformation logicPower BIReporting and self-service
Related services
End-to-End BI Implementation — Microsoft FabricData Migration into Cloud — Microsoft FabricExecutive Dashboards · Power BI
The engagement, end to end

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The whole build on one board — why the spreadsheets stopped working, the four moves that replaced them, and where the platform landed. Start anywhere.

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Context
Approach · four moves
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The challenge · Spreadsheets as infrastructure

Every team maintained its own spreadsheets.

Manual Excel reporting ran the business. Business rules were duplicated across files, and pulling data out of four different systems took extensive manual work.

Reconciliations were time-consuming, and the handling itself was error-prone.

Each team on its own spreadsheetsBusiness rules duplicated file to fileFour systems, extracted by hand
Before · spreadsheets as infrastructureDuplicated
Finance team
Projects team
Operations team
Commercial team
Same business rule, restated in every file

Four systems, extracted by hand into files each team maintained alone.

Stage 1 of 7 · Challenge
How the STEAM framework shapes a buildOur delivery framework, end to end
The people who built it

Team responsible.

A small delivery team, named and accountable from kickoff to go-live.

  • Luke Matthews, Co-Founder, Head of Project Delivery & Data Architecture at Dataracity

    Luke Matthews

    Co-Founder, Head of Project Delivery & Data Architecture

Still reporting out of spreadsheets?

Monthly spreadsheets can become daily insight.

Bring us the files your business actually runs on. We'll map the systems behind them, the model that replaces them, and the reports that retire them.

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