Turn business data into confident decisions with reporting, dashboards and analytics your teams will actually use
Overview
In today's fiercely competitive business landscape, relying on gut feelings alone is no longer sufficient. To stay ahead, businesses need actionable insights powered by data. As a trusted Business Intelligence company in the UK, NCS empowers organisations with tailored solutions designed to drive smarter decision-making.
With over a decade of expertise, NCS partners with enterprises and agile SMBs alike to unlock the true potential of their data. Our comprehensive Business Intelligence services provide the clarity, insights and foresight needed to achieve your strategic goals effectively.
What we offer
Recognising the individual needs of every business, we offer a bespoke BI approach. Whether you seek a comprehensive BI strategy or targeted solutions like data warehousing or automated reporting, count on us to deliver.
Reporting and dashboards on the platforms your teams already use, built for adoption and clarity.
What's included
Executive, operational and automated reporting that keeps every stakeholder working from the same numbers.
What's included
Well-modelled analysis services and pixel-perfect reporting on the Microsoft BI stack.
What's included
Strategy, integration and warehousing on Microsoft Fabric, with Power BI reporting on top.
What's included
Our approach
A structured path from first assessment to dashboards your teams trust, use and build on.
We review your data sources, reporting pain points and the decisions each team needs to make.
We agree KPI definitions and design the data model and warehouse that sit behind them.
We build pipelines, semantic models and dashboards integrated with your existing systems.
We roll out dashboards with training, then monitor, iterate and extend your BI estate as your business and reporting needs evolve.
Tech stack
Proven reporting and analytics platforms, selected to fit your existing data estate rather than replace it.
Power BI
Enterprise-grade reports and dashboards built for adoption
Tableau
Visual analytics tailored to your teams and data
Looker
Governed, modelled reporting on modern data platforms
Microsoft Fabric
OneLake, pipelines and lakehouse analytics
SSAS
Semantic models that answer business questions fast
SSRS
Pixel-perfect operational and financial reporting
SQL Server
The data platform behind your BI estate
Azure
Cloud analytics and warehousing for scale
Benefits
The difference a well-built BI estate makes, from the boardroom to day-to-day operations.
Make strategic decisions backed by data, often leading to 10-15% increases in revenue and efficiency.
Understand customers better to deliver personalised service and boost satisfaction.
Identify inefficiencies and streamline processes for cost savings.
Outpace competitors with insights driving innovation and agility.
Why choose us
Four reasons organisations choose NCS as their BI partner, from the first workshop through to long-term reporting estates.
Our collaborative approach delivers custom BI solutions aligned with your strategic objectives, with scalable options tailored to your budget and ROI goals.
Gain real-time insights from advanced analytics and intuitive dashboards that reveal hidden trends within your data.
Turn data into a strategic asset to optimise workflows, resource allocation, and customer understanding.
Foster a data-driven culture with self-service BI, enabling your team to access and analyse data independently.
Key components include data warehousing for centralised storage, ETL processes for data integration, OLAP tools for multidimensional analysis, reporting and visualisation tools, data governance frameworks, security controls, user training programmes, and ongoing support to ensure adoption and effectiveness.
BI exposes where time, stock and spend leak out of the business. With live dashboards on the metrics that matter, teams fix bottlenecks earlier, reduce manual reporting effort and reinvest that capacity into revenue-generating work.
The common blockers are fragmented data sources, inconsistent definitions of the same metric, poor data quality, unclear ownership and low user adoption. We tackle these with a data model, agreed KPI definitions and training built into delivery.
We build on cloud warehouses and modular data models, so new sources, users and business units can be added without rebuilding. Governance and access controls are designed in from day one.
Any organisation running on multiple systems and spreadsheets. SMBs gain the most rapid uplift, because a single trusted dashboard replaces days of manual consolidation each month.
We agree baseline metrics up front, such as reporting turnaround time, forecast accuracy, margin visibility and active dashboard users, then track them after go-live to quantify the return.
Yes, we empower users to access and analyse data autonomously, fostering a data-centric ethos while reducing reliance on IT for every report.
Many clients see revenue and efficiency increases of 10-15% by identifying operational inefficiencies and understanding customer behaviour better through personalised insights.
Contact us
Talk to our BI consultants about your data sources, reporting gaps and the dashboards your teams actually need.
Prefer to talk? Call us on 020 3326 7268
