Making strategic decisions with scattered, unreliable, or manually processed data leads to inefficiencies and missed opportunities. At Altesia, we use BI tools to centralize your data, automate reporting, and provide real-time insights, enabling faster, smarter, and more confident decision-making.
Business Intelligence
Turn data into insights
Using BI for reporting… and much more!
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What is Business Intelligence?
Business Intelligence (BI) refers to the technologies, processes, and tools that help businesses collect, analyze, and visualize data to support decision-making. By transforming raw data into actionable insights, BI enables organizations to optimize performance, identify trends, and make informed strategic decisions. Instead of relying on intuition, companies equipped with BI solutions can base their strategies on real-time, data-driven evidence.
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What is Power Query?
Power Query is a data transformation tool within Microsoft Excel and Power BI that allows users to connect, clean, and reshape data from multiple sources. It automates repetitive data preparation tasks, ensuring that data is always accurate, structured, and ready for analysis. By eliminating manual errors and inefficiencies, Power Query significantly speeds up the data processing workflow.
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What is Power BI?
Power BI is Microsoft’s industry-leading data visualization and business intelligence platform. It allows businesses to create interactive dashboards and reports that offer a real-time, 360-degree view of their operations. Power BI uses multiple data sources, enabling organizations to track KPIs, analyze trends, and generate insightful reports for finance, procurement, operations, and beyond.
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Why use Business Intelligence in Finance, Procurement, and other support functions?
✔ Business Intelligence in Finance
Finance teams handle massive volumes of data, from budgeting and forecasting to cash flow management. BI tools like Power BI and Power Query allow CFOs and finance professionals to automate financial reporting, detect anomalies, forecast trends, and gain deep visibility into company performance, ensuring accurate and timely decision-making.
✔ Business Intelligence in Procurement
Procurement professionals need clear insights into supplier performance, cost management, and contract compliance. BI solutions help procurement teams centralize supplier data, analyse spending patterns, and optimize sourcing strategies to improve cost efficiency and risk management.
✔ Business Intelligence in other business functions
Beyond finance and procurement, BI enhances decision-making in HR, sales, marketing, operations, and supply chain management. From tracking employee performance to optimizing marketing campaigns or monitoring inventory levels, BI tools ensure every department has data-driven insights to improve efficiency and strategy.
Common data management issues
Most organizations manage data across multiple spreadsheets, tools, and systems. Without Business Intelligence to centralize and automate, this leads to inconsistencies, delays, and decisions based on partial or outdated information. Here are some of the most common challenges:
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How we help you using Business Intelligence
How we help you using Business Intelligence
Our Business Intelligence consultants use Power BI and Power Query to:
- Centralize your data into a single, real-time dashboard.
- Provide a single data source to your teams, without having to give accesses to several tools to all team members.
- Automate reporting, eliminating manual tasks and freeing time for strategic analysis.
- Ensure data reliability through automated cleaning and validation processes.
- Set up automated alerts for budget deviations, cash flow risks, or supplier performance issues.
Once reportings and processes are in place, our consultants train your teams so you can continue using and generating reports on a regular basis in all autonomy.
Key deliverables from our Business intelligence support
The final output will depend on your exact request, but can include:
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- A consolidated, real-time dashboard displaying your key financial and operational metrics.
- Automated reports, reducing manual work and ensuring data accuracy.
- Proactive alerts that allow fast, informed decision-making.
- A team trained using the tools created in all autonomy
What we don’t do
What we don’t do
Through our no-nonsense approach, we will focus on your needs to deliver a right-sized mission and outputs – no less, no more:
❌ No generic dashboards that don’t fit your specific business situation.
❌ No complex solutions without ensuring your teams can use them.
❌ No new BI tools without a clear data governance strategy.
❌ We will not ignore the human factor—your team’s adoption of BI is key to success.