Dataracity
Retail · Canada · Microsoft Power BI

From Manual Reporting to Retail Intelligence

Thirty-plus manual reports replaced by one centralized data source — sales, inventory, and customer behaviour visible on the same day the business happens.

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IndustryRetail
Company11–50 employees
CountryCanada
FrameworkSTEAM
Results
30+Reports consolidatedInto one centralized source
1Central data modelSales, products, and inventory
Real timeTrend visibilityProduct and customer behaviour
Company-wideDashboard adoptionUsed to run meetings
Software used
Azure Data LakeData LandingTableauKPI and measure logicMicrosoft FabricData preparation
Related services
End-to-End BI Implementation — Microsoft FabricCloud Migration · Microsoft AzureEnd-to-End BI Implementation · Databricks
The engagement, end to end

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The whole engagement on one board — why thirty-plus reports stopped working, the five moves that replaced them, and how the business runs now. Start anywhere.

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Challenge
Context
Approach · five moves
Results
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The challenge · Fragmented reporting

The business could not see what was happening day to day.

Sales and inventory data lived in fragmented reports, most of them maintained by hand.

There was no consolidated view of sales performance across locations and product lines, and no automated way to track customer behaviour or product performance.

30+ reports, largely maintained manuallyNo consolidated view across locations or product linesNo automated tracking of customer or product performance
Before · thirty-plus reportsFragmented
Sales by store
Stock counts
Product lists
Customer sheets
Incoming orders
…and 25 more
No consolidated view across locations or product lines

Each report maintained by hand, none of them agreeing with the next.

Stage 1 of 8 · Challenge
How we build executive dashboardsReporting leadership actually opens
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

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