Power BI as a service here means a reporting layer somebody builds, maintains and improves for you, priced against the work that actually gets done. Quiet months cost less than busy ones, because the invoice follows the changes shipped.
Most Irish companies asking for this already own Power BI through Microsoft 365. What they want is someone to keep the reporting honest while the business changes underneath it.
What Power BI as a Service Includes
The build. A semantic model with explicit DAX measures, a proper date table, and a refresh that loads the day rather than the decade.
Power bi dashboard design. Built around the decision waiting on it, tested on the phone a director will actually open it on, and documented at handover.
The maintenance. Sales adds a region, finance changes how a margin is calculated, a source system gets replaced. Each is a defined piece of work with a price against it.
The handover. Documented, so your team can make small changes without us. That reduces what you spend here, which is the intended effect.
How It Is Billed
Work is quoted per change, or in a block of days you draw down against. Unused days stay yours rather than expiring at the end of the month.
If nothing needs doing in March, March costs nothing. Nobody here has a reason to invent a dashboard refresh to justify an invoice, which is what keeps the advice straight.
Nothing recurring starts until something has been built and handed over, so you are always paying against work you can see.
Data Residency, Settled at Setup
Power BI tenants can be provisioned in the EU, and for most Irish companies that is the right default rather than an interesting option.
Where you process personal data under GDPR and want the reporting layer in the same jurisdiction as the source systems, that is a configuration decision made once, at setup. We raise it whether or not you ask, and we work alongside your compliance advisers with the architecture detail they need.
What the Reporting Layer Delivers
A microsoft power bi dashboard that agrees with the finance system, refreshes before people arrive, and names an owner for every measure on it.
Power bi analytics work here covers the model, the measures and the row-level security, tested against real accounts before anyone outside the project sees a number.
Our bi services extend to the pipeline feeding it, so a late source is a fixable problem rather than an excuse.
How Engagements Start
A paid scoping day comes first. You get a written assessment of what exists, what it costs to run, and what the options are with figures attached. Take that document elsewhere if you want to, because it is yours.
Book a scoping day and name the report people argue about. Power bi as a service works best when it starts from one real disagreement.
Related Services
Where two systems disagree about what a customer is, the work is data analysis and reconciliation rather than dashboard design. Where the data arrives late or by email, it is infrastructure and pipelines, and where a board pack has to leave as a branded document, that is document automation.