Power BI Consultant Southampton

Intouch Tech provides Power BI consultancy in Southampton from Cumberland Place, facing Watts Park in the city centre. We build operational dashboards, untangle slow reports and run Power BI as a managed service for businesses across the Solent. Microsoft Solutions Partner since 2012.

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Why Southampton

Reporting for Southampton maritime and logistics operators

Southampton's port moves a huge share of the UK's containers and cruise passengers, and the freight forwarders, shipping agents and marine businesses around it run on operational data: vessel schedules, container dwell times, margin per movement. That data usually sits in a TMS or job-costing system and surfaces once a month, after the margin is already lost. By the time a job shows up as unprofitable the work is done, invoiced and gone. We build job-level margin dashboards that surface weekly, or daily where the data supports it, so a job going wrong is a conversation this week rather than a line in a month-end review. Alongside that: delivery and dwell-time reporting an operations manager can take to the port and defend, and finance packs that end the month-end spreadsheet marathon. Solent manufacturers and professional firms use the same service for finance and utilisation reporting. The work usually starts by connecting the TMS or job-costing system and settling one definition of margin per job, because operations and finance often calculate it differently and both are convinced. Once that is agreed the reporting stops being argued about and starts being used. Cumberland Place is five minutes from Southampton Central, and Winchester, Eastleigh, Romsey and Fareham are all inside half an hour. Portsmouth has its own Intouch Tech base and the two share consultants across the Solent, so cover does not depend on one person's diary.

Power BI dashboard on a laptop with Southampton in the background

Maritime and freight

Who we work with in Southampton

Freight & shipping

Forwarders and agents tracking margin per movement.

Marine businesses

Port-adjacent operators reporting operational KPIs.

Solent manufacturers

Firms automating finance and utilisation reporting.

Power BI Services

Power BI is Microsoft's analytics platform for turning raw data into live, interactive dashboards. We connect your data sources, model the numbers and build the reports each team opens daily: sales, finance, operations and the board. One data model, connected to Excel, SQL Server, Dynamics 365, SharePoint and your CRM. It refreshes on its own, every morning.

Build

Dashboards & reporting

Reports people open every morning, fed automatically.

Foundation

Data modelling

One governed model so every department reads the same numbers.

Control

Governance & security

Workspaces, row-level security, certified datasets.

Run

Managed service

We keep it fast, accurate and current after go-live.

Enable

Training

From report readers to DAX, on your own data.

Spend

Licensing reviews

Pro, Premium and capacity matched to real usage.

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what is power bi?

What We Build

Power BI is Microsoft’s analytics platform for turning raw data into live, interactive dashboards.
We connect your data sources, model the numbers and
build the Power BI reports each team opens daily: sales, finance, operations and the board.

One Power BI data model, connected to Excel, SQL Server, Dynamics 365, SharePoint and your CRM. It refreshes on its own, every morning.

How it works

Three steps from scattered spreadsheets to dashboards the whole company trusts.

Connect

We plug into your systems: finance, CRM, operations, Excel.

Model

One governed data model. Every metric defined once.

Visualise

Dashboards per team, refreshed automatically each morning.

Our Southampton office

Regus · Cumberland Place

15-17 Cumberland Place, Southampton SO15 2BG

0333 370 7000

[email protected]

faq

POWER BI
QUESTIONS

Answers to the questions UK businesses ask us most about Power BI.

Yes. We connect your TMS or job-costing system and surface margin per job weekly, or daily where the underlying data updates that often, so a job going wrong becomes a conversation while you can still act on it. Job-level margin dashboards are a standard build for logistics clients here. The part that needs agreeing first is what counts in the margin, because operations and finance usually calculate it differently.

Usually, yes. Power BI connects to most transport management and job-costing platforms directly, and where a system is older or closed we read from its database or take a scheduled export instead. Reaching the data is rarely the blocker. The slower step is agreeing which figure is authoritative when the TMS and the finance system disagree, and we settle that with you before building reporting on top of it.

A first dashboard on one question, margin per job or dwell time, is usually live within a few weeks, and daily use follows once the operations team has had a cycle to trust the numbers. Access to the TMS sets the pace more than the build does. We deliver in phases so one view is working early rather than waiting on a full rollout. Winchester, Eastleigh, Romsey and Fareham are covered from Cumberland Place.

Power BI is Microsoft's analytics tool for turning raw data into reports and dashboards your team can actually read. You pull figures from spreadsheets, databases and online systems into one place, then spot trends and answer business questions without waiting on a manual report.

Reading a Power BI dashboard takes no training at all. Building one takes a little, and most people create useful reports after a short session. We handle the harder data work behind the scenes, so your team only deals with the parts they need.

Yes. Power BI pulls data from hundreds of sources, including Excel, SQL databases, cloud services and most CRM and finance platforms. We bring those feeds together so one dashboard shows the whole picture instead of figures scattered across systems.

It depends on the scope. A focused first dashboard can go live in a few weeks, while bigger rollouts run in phases. We agree the timeline up front so you know what to expect at each stage.

Yes. You control who sees what with role-based access, your data is encrypted, and Power BI ties into your existing Microsoft security and meets recognised compliance standards. If you would rather keep data on your own servers, Power BI Report Server gives you an on-premises option.

Yes. We provide ongoing support, train your users and keep refining your dashboards as the business changes, so your reports stay accurate and useful rather than going stale after launch.

Yes. We build Power BI dashboards on SharePoint, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Azure DevOps, Dynamics 365, Google Analytics, Snowflake and SQL, and we can embed live dashboards straight into SharePoint and Microsoft Teams.

Yes. You can export any Power BI report to PowerPoint for board meetings, and embed the live version in SharePoint and Teams so everyone works from the same current numbers.

Yes. Intouch Tech is a UK Power BI consultancy and Microsoft Solutions Partner. We support organisations in London, Fleet and across the UK with consultancy, implementation and managed Power BI services.

Yes. Power BI swaps manual Excel reports for live dashboards that update on their own, so everyone reads the same current figures instead of passing conflicting spreadsheets back and forth.

Power BI Consultant
in Southampton

Reporting for Southampton maritime and logistics operators

Who we work with in Southampton