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See the Whole Picture. Lead With Confidence.

We design and build BI dashboards and data frameworks that give every team — from the C-suite to the frontline — the clarity to act fast and correctly.

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Power BI · Tableau · Looker
Single Source of Truth
Self-serve for Business Teams
Real-time & Scheduled

60+

BI Dashboards Delivered

35%

Avg Reporting Time Saved

6+

BI Platforms Mastered

18+

Industries Covered

Spreadsheets are costing you decisions

CFO's Monday routine — without BI

Measured across 40+ finance leaders before their BI implementation.

Export from Shopify, Salesforce, QuickBooks45 min
Reconcile conflicting margin numbers across sheets90 min
Copy-paste into executive summary deck60 min
Realize numbers are already outdated5 min
With Ethersofts BI: open live dashboard< 1 min

3 versions

Of "the truth"

Average number of conflicting revenue figures in a Monday leadership meeting — Finance, Sales, and Operations each pulling from their own tool.

-35%

Reporting time saved

Average weekly reporting time reduction after replacing manual spreadsheet reports with live BI dashboards.

The right BI tool for your stack

Power BI

The Microsoft ecosystem choice — deep Office 365 integration

Best for: Orgs already on Microsoft 365, Azure, or Dynamics

Strengths

Row-level security & data governance
Native Azure / Fabric integration
DAX for complex business logic
Cost-effective at enterprise scale
Embedded analytics in Teams

Choose this when:

Your team lives in Microsoft 365 and you want governed self-serve at low per-seat cost.

Power BI Dashboard

Revenue MTD

$2.41M

+18% MoM

Quota %

94%

+6pts MoM

Active Users

14,820

+12% MoM

Gross Margin

67.3%

-1.2pts MoM

Revenue trend (6mo)

From messy data to
clear decisions

Every BI engagement follows a four-stage methodology designed around one outcome: teams making confident decisions without raising a ticket.

KPI discovery and design sprint1–2 weeks
Data modeling and dashboard build4–8 weeks
Training, docs, and rollout1 week
01

KPI Discovery

Stakeholder interviews to understand which decisions matter most and what data currently exists to support them. We map business goals to metrics before designing anything.

02

Data Modeling

We design a clean, documented data model with a semantic layer that ensures consistent metrics across all reports — no more conflicting spreadsheet numbers.

03

Dashboard Build

We build in your chosen BI tool, applying UX principles to make every chart immediately useful for its intended audience — executive, operational, or analyst.

04

Training & Rollout

Team training, documentation, and change management support to ensure adoption — not just delivery. Self-serve means teams actually use it independently.

BI Dashboards vs Spreadsheets

Every row in this table is a decision you're making slower, or incorrectly, right now.

CriterionBI DashboardSpreadsheet
Data freshness
Live or scheduled refresh
24+ hours (manual export)
Version of truth
One metric, one definition
3+ conflicting spreadsheets
Time to insight
< 30 seconds (self-serve)
8 hrs of weekly prep
Drill-down depth
Unlimited with filters
Manual re-pivot every time
Role-based access
Row-level security built in
Manual file sharing
Anomaly detection
Automated alerts on KPI drift
Found in next week's review
Mobile access
Native app, responsive
Excel mobile is unusable

8 hours → 20 minutes

Challenge

Mid-market distributor's CFO spending 8 hours every week pulling Excel reports from 3 systems and manually reconciling before leadership meetings.

What We Built

Power BI connected to ERP, CRM, and Shopify with a centralized semantic layer. Row-level security so each manager sees only their region's data.

Results

20 min

Weekly reporting (was 8 hours)

0

Manual reconciliation processes

100%

Leadership self-serve adoption

Ready to replace your spreadsheet reports?

Talk to an engineer this week — not a sales rep. We'll propose a BI architecture that fits your team and budget.

"We went from weekly Excel reports to live Power BI dashboards in 6 weeks. The operations team now self-serves — I haven't been asked for a spreadsheet in 3 months."
LT

L. Thomas

CFO, Distribution Company · Manchester

Questions we get all the time

If yours is not here, reach out. We respond within 24 hours with a real answer from an engineer — not a sales pitch.

Frequently asked questions

Absolutely. We do Power BI optimization — fixing slow reports, rebuilding messy data models, creating proper row-level security, and redesigning dashboards for clarity. You don't need to start from scratch.

We build a semantic layer (often using dbt or Power BI datasets) that defines metrics centrally. Revenue means the same thing whether Finance or Sales pulls it. We also document every metric definition in a shared data catalog.

Yes — that's the whole point. We design for the end user, which is usually a business manager, not a data analyst. Self-serve filters, plain-language labels, guided walkthroughs, and mobile-responsive layouts are standard.

We work alongside your team. We can lead the architecture and build, train your team, then hand over, or embed as an extension of your existing data team on a retainer basis.

We've seen it all. We can ingest spreadsheets via automated sync (using tools like Fivetran or custom connectors), restructure the data in a warehouse, and build reliable dashboards on top — while helping you wean off manual spreadsheets over time.

It depends on your stack. Power BI is the best fit if you live in Microsoft 365 and want low per-seat cost; Tableau wins for analyst-heavy teams that need maximum visualization flexibility; Looker is best for a governed semantic layer on Google Cloud where 'revenue' must mean the same thing everywhere. We're platform-agnostic and recommend based on your tools, team, and budget — not a vendor preference.

Both. For small setups we can connect BI tools directly to source apps, but for reliable, fast, single-source-of-truth reporting we build a Snowflake, BigQuery, or Redshift warehouse with a dbt or dataset-based semantic layer underneath. That keeps dashboards fast, metrics consistent, and avoids hammering your production databases.

A focused executive or operational dashboard on clean data typically starts at $5k–$12k. A full BI rollout with a warehouse, semantic layer, row-level security, and team training generally runs $20k–$60k depending on the number of data sources. We provide a fixed quote after a free BI consultation.

Business Intelligence

Turn your data into
decisions

Tell us what you need to measure. We will design dashboards and a self-serve BI setup your whole team can actually use.

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