Beyond SharePoint
SharePoint and Power BI reporting on the data you already hold
TechRam builds Power BI dashboards and scheduled reports on the data you already hold in SharePoint and Microsoft 365. Decisions stop waiting on somebody updating a spreadsheet, and the weekly pack that used to be assembled by hand assembles itself from the records as they're written.
- 4–10 weeks
What we do
- Power BI semantic model over your operational data
- Live dashboards by role, not one dashboard for everyone
- Scheduled reports that email themselves, with commentary fields
- Data quality checks that flag the gap before the exec sees it
The problem it answers
Decisions get made on a spreadsheet that was last updated some time last week, by someone who has since gone on leave. Every meeting starts with an argument about whose number is right.
We connect Power BI to the systems the numbers actually live in, and then automate the report that used to take a day to assemble.
Proof: LGP
Local Government Procurement tracked objectives in a spreadsheet one person owned, and assembled the weekly executive pack by hand. TechRam built an OKR tracker on SharePoint lists where owners update their own progress, and the executive report now builds itself from live data every week.
Weekly
report writes itself
Built under this service
Report Distribution
The reporting pack goes out on schedule, built from live data.
Read the entry → — Report Distribution
What this does for your AI
An agent asked “how are we tracking” needs a measure, not a mailbox. This builds the measures.
Common questions
01. How is Power BI reporting different from what our MSP already does?
Most MSPs don't do BI, and the ones that do tend to hand over a dashboard rather than a model. The work here is the semantic model underneath, which is what stops two reports disagreeing.
02. Our numbers live in a spreadsheet somebody maintains. Is that a problem?
It's the first problem. A dashboard over a spreadsheet one person updates is the same single point of failure with a nicer front end, so we connect to the system the data actually comes from.
03. Can we start reporting with one department rather than the whole organisation?
Usually yes, and it's often the better way in. One department that works is a more persuasive business case internally than a plan covering all of them, and it gives us a real cost to scope the rest against.
04. What does Power BI reporting cost?
Fixed scope, quoted in writing before work starts, and the number doesn't move because the work turned out harder than we expected. We don't publish a range, because the scope is what sets it and a range without a scope is a guess you would have to unlearn.
05. Do we need to buy anything new for Power BI reporting?
Almost never. We start with what is already in your Microsoft 365 licensing, and we don't resell licences or earn a margin on them. Where something genuinely isn't covered we'll say so before you commit, not after.
06. What happens when the reports are built?
You own it: the systems, the documentation, and the ability to maintain them without us. Run & Improve exists if you would rather we kept it current, and it's monthly with no lock-in.