Replaced our monthly Excel reports with Power BI — a few lessons from the first quarter

Mark Rikhter 1 w

Our finance team was spending two full days every month copy-pasting numbers into Excel templates just to get a management report out. We switched to Power BI about four months ago and the monthly close now takes half a day. But getting there wasn't simple — we burned three weeks trying to build it in-house before realizing we needed outside help. Found a decent breakdown of how the hiring process usually works here https://cobit-solutions.com/en/services/power-bi-developers-for-data-driven-solutions/ and it matched what we ended up doing. If you're weighing the same move, budget for at least one dedicated developer for the first eight weeks.