As someone with the “data gene”, who specializes in Power BI, Azure and SQL Server, I enjoy empowering my clients through partnership consulting to help them with their reporting and analytic needs. I don’t want my clients to depend on me, but I want them to know they can depend on me. The right combination of training and consulting teamed with people who know your business is an unbeatable combination.Over the past several years, I’ve had the opportunity to work with businesses of all shapes and sizes in this fashion including CBRE, McLeod Software, Bell Partners, RAM Tool, Centre State Bank, United States Army, Alabama Outdoors, High Five Endo and Luma Dentistry just to name a few. Each of these were at a different level when it comes to analytics and had different data and processes. The one thing they all had in common was a desire to turn their data into opportunity and improve their business.If you struggle with things like the following, reach out to me, I can help:• Lot’s of Excel spreadsheets that must be touched by someone on a daily or weekly basis• The boss asks a question such as, “How often do our most valuable customers make a purchase” and it takes you several hours to get the answer. You give him the answer and then he says, “I want to market to them within one week of when they are supposed to purchase again and haven't”.• Your staff in the field needs real time dashboards and analytics to do their job effectively, but the best you can do is send them a pdf on a daily basis.• Your operations and sales teams need near real-time data, but you can only give them updates every 2 hours.• You want to move to the cloud and avoid servers, software and all the cost required to support that, but you just don’t know where to start.• You have spent a lot of money on expensive BI software but aren’t getting the value out of it that you should.• You have a legacy system that is bad at reporting but don’t have the resources to upgrade right now.If you want to take analytics to the next level, reach out and lets start a conversation.Brad.Marshall@SapientCompany.com