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Business Intelligence Consulting

Business Intelligence Consulting

Australia’s Premier Business Intelligence Consulting Firm for Data-Driven Growth.

Transform Your Data Into Actionable Insights

Report Simple transforms raw data into a strategic asset, empowering Australian organisations to make confident, evidence-based decisions. Our expert Business Intelligence consulting team bridges the gap between complex data sets and actionable insights, ensuring you stay ahead in a competitive market.

Automate Reporting

Stop losing hours to manual data entry. We configure automated pipelines that eliminate redundancy, ensuring your team focuses on analysis rather than assembly.

Dynamic Visualisation

Move beyond static spreadsheets. We build interactive, real-time dashboards that allow stakeholders to drill down into data and answer questions instantly.

Actionable Intelligence

Turn raw data into a strategic asset. Uncover hidden trends, predict future outcomes, and seize growth opportunities that were previously invisible.

Maximise ROI

Make profitable decisions based on facts, not hunches. Use precise analytics to pinpoint operational inefficiencies and significantly reduce waste.

Seamless Integration

Unify your data landscape. We create robust connections between your favourite sources - creating a single, truthful view of your entire business.

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SERVICES

BI Strategy & Roadmap

We align your data architecture with business goals to create a clear, actionable path to maturity. Our consultants identify high-impact opportunities that deliver immediate value while laying the foundation for scalable growth.

Interactive Dashboards & Visualisation

Turn static reports into dynamic, intuitive dashboards using Power BI and Tableau. We design user-centric visualisations that democratise data, allowing stakeholders at every level to spot trends and anomalies instantly.

Data Warehousing & Integration

Centralise your fragmented data sources into a single source of truth using robust ETL pipelines. We build secure, high-performance data warehouses on Azure and BigQuery to ensure data integrity and accessibility.

Advanced Analytics & Forecasting

Move beyond describing what happened to predicting what will happen next. We leverage statistical modelling and machine learning to uncover deep patterns that drive proactive business adjustments.

Data Governance & Enablement

Empower your team to generate their own insights within a secure, governed framework. We implement rigorous standards and training to ensure data quality, security, and compliance across the organisation.

190+ Australian Enterprises Choose Report Simple. 

570+ Successful Projects

We bring deep experience to every engagement, having delivered hundreds of scalable analytics solutions across government and private sectors.

100% Australian Owned

We don't farm your data out to offshore teams. Our team is Australian-based, ensuring clear communication, local timezone alignment, and strict data sovereignty.

Your Tenant, Your IP

We build inside your environment so the solution is entirely yours - code, models, and IP. You stay in control, with the freedom to continue independently.

Matt Lazarus Report Simple

We believe data should empower, not overwhelm. Simplicity is in our DNA.

Matt Lazarus

Founder of Report Simple

Collaborating with Report Simple lifted our marketing data strategy to a whole new level... The results speak for themselves with a 62% increase in ROI.

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CMO, Beeline

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Our Proven Business Intelligence Consulting Process

We utilise a structured, agile methodology to deliver rapid wins while building a sustainable data ecosystem. From discovery to deployment, every step is designed to maximise ROI and user adoption.

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Discovery & Architecture Design

We start by auditing your current data landscape and defining clear KPIs to ensure technical solutions meet specific business needs. Our architects map out a scalable infrastructure that integrates seamlessly with your existing tech stack, setting the stage for reliable reporting.

Agile Development & Implementation
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Using iterative sprints, we build and refine your data models and dashboards to ensure constant alignment with stakeholder feedback. This rigorous development phase prioritises data accuracy, performance optimisation, and intuitive user interface design for immediate usability.

Training & Ongoing Optimisation
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A tool is only as good as its users, so we provide comprehensive training and documentation to ensure widespread adoption across your teams. Post-launch, we offer continuous monitoring and refinement to adapt your BI environment as your business objectives evolve.

FAQ

What does Business Intelligence consulting actually involve, and why do organisations rely on it to improve clarity, trust, and decision making?

Business Intelligence consulting helps organisations move from inconsistent reporting to a structured analytical environment where information is accurate, traceable, and simple to understand. Many teams rely on spreadsheets, siloed databases, and undocumented logic that cause conflicting results and constant reconciliation. BI consultants redesign this landscape by modelling clean datasets, establishing metric definitions, standardising transformations, and creating governance that eliminates ambiguity. This foundation turns scattered information into a single source of truth that supports operational reporting, forecasting, performance tracking, and strategic decision making. A manufacturing company might experience this when a fragmented set of spreadsheets is replaced with a governed BI model that shows production delays instantly and prevents days of back and forth analysis.

The value increases as organisations scale. BI consulting introduces processes for lineage, quality checks, scenario modelling, and automated refresh behaviour, ensuring data remains consistent even as systems grow in complexity. With stronger structure, teams regain confidence in their numbers and no longer waste time debating whose report is correct. Insights become easier to share, dashboards become predictable, and decisions are grounded in verified information rather than guesswork. This creates a long term shift from reactive reporting to proactive decision intelligence.

How does Report Simple support organisations that need Business Intelligence consulting and help them build clarity focused, scalable analytical environments?

Report Simple supports organisations by transforming BI complexity into systems that feel clear, intuitive, and designed around how people actually make decisions. Many organisations come to us with duplicate dashboards, conflicting KPIs, slow pipelines, and legacy structures that make reporting fragile. We assess how data moves through the organisation, identify root causes of confusion, and redesign BI architecture so models are clean, definitions are unified, and dashboards behave consistently. Clients often describe our communication as calm and precise, which makes BI principles easier for teams to engage with. Our consultants integrate Power BI, Tableau, Azure, Fabric, Snowflake, BigQuery, and other platforms in ways that support long term maintainability rather than technical debt.

We also help organisations build BI systems that remain steady as requirements change. This includes strong governance, naming standards, certified datasets, automation pathways, refresh optimisation, and documentation that clarifies how the system works. As organisations adopt predictive analytics or AI assisted insight, these foundations protect accuracy and ensure the technology enhances rather than disrupts decision making. Report Simple’s approach blends engineering discipline with human centred design, giving organisations an analytical environment that feels structured, dependable, and aligned with real operational behaviour.

How can Business Intelligence consulting support automation, forecasting, and operational intelligence across industries such as construction, healthcare, retail, logistics, and professional services?

BI consulting supports automation by connecting insight with action in ways that reflect real operational workflows. Construction teams track live project performance and receive alerts when costs drift. Healthcare providers monitor patient flow, workforce availability, and clinical outcomes in real time. Retailers use predictive models to allocate stock before demand surges occur. Logistics companies analyse delivery patterns, SLA health, and routing efficiency using live operational data. Professional services teams forecast utilisation and project margins without relying on manual spreadsheets. These improvements come from structured BI environments where data quality, modelling consistency, and refresh reliability support deeper analytical capability.

When BI connects with automation tools such as Power Automate, Fabric pipelines, or cloud orchestration platforms, insights trigger tasks instantly, reducing manual oversight and improving response times. Forecasting becomes more accurate when BI models include scenario logic and predictive signals built on governed data. Decision intelligence emerges as organisations combine operational metrics, financial indicators, and sustainability performance in one environment, allowing leaders to see how actions in one part of the organisation affect outcomes elsewhere. BI consulting shifts organisations from delayed reporting to continuous operational insight, strengthening collaboration and long term planning.

What role does Business Intelligence consulting play in preparing organisations for AI assisted analytics, and why are analysts still essential in this new environment?

Business Intelligence consulting prepares organisations for AI assisted analytics by ensuring that the underlying data models, semantic layers, and governance structures are stable enough for AI to rely upon. AI systems cannot resolve inconsistent KPIs, broken lineage, or missing definitions. They require clean, validated, documented structures with predictable behaviour. BI consultants create this environment by establishing unified models, clarifying metric logic, standardising transformations, and protecting data quality across the entire lifecycle. These steps provide AI with the clarity it needs to run forecasting models, natural language exploration, anomaly detection, and scenario simulations safely.

Analysts remain essential because AI cannot interpret organisational nuance, contextual judgement, or the intent behind metrics. Analysts guide which data should matter, validate AI outputs, refine definitions, and ensure recommendations align with real business goals. They turn AI enhanced analytics into trustworthy decision making rather than automated noise. When Business Intelligence consulting merges human understanding with AI capability, organisations gain a future ready environment where automation accelerates insight but does not replace the critical thinking required for strategic clarity.

How does Report Simple help organisations simplify complex BI ecosystems and reduce cost, duplication, and long term maintenance effort?

Report Simple helps organisations simplify their BI landscape by consolidating scattered dataflows, reducing duplicated reports, and creating governance structures that protect accuracy over time. Many organisations maintain multiple BI tools, manually stitched pipelines, or conflicting dashboards that create unnecessary spending and operational risk. We streamline this environment by mapping ownership, restructuring models, aligning definitions, and reducing redundant processes. This lowers maintenance effort, clarifies workflows, and prevents performance issues that emerge when systems grow without structure.

We also optimise cost by assessing cloud workloads, storage patterns, refresh schedules, and inefficient modelling approaches. By unifying BI architecture and ensuring each component serves a clear purpose, organisations avoid over licensing, excessive compute spend, and maintenance burdens that drain resources. Once simplified, the BI ecosystem becomes a stable foundation for forecasting, ESG reporting, automation, and integrated analytics. Report Simple’s approach ensures that organisations not only reduce cost but also gain clarity, reliability, and long term sustainability in their decision making environment.

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Related services & resources

True Business Intelligence relies on a robust ecosystem where storage, processing, and automation work in harmony. By integrating BI with cloud platforms and workflow automation, we unlock deeper scalability and operational efficiency.

Enhance Your Analytics With These Services

Take your reporting further with complementary cloud and visualisation technologies.

  • BigQuery - scale your analytics effortlessly with Google’s serverless data warehouse

  • Tableau - empower your workforce with intuitive, self-service visual analytics

  • Azure - build a unified, secure cloud infrastructure for your enterprise data

Enable Growth With Leading Technologies

Explore the technical building blocks that turn data strategy into measurable results.

  • Power BI - deploy enterprise-grade reporting that connects teams to data instantly

  • Microsoft Fabric - unify your data estate with an all-in-one analytics solution

  • Power Automate - automate repetitive data tasks to accelerate decision workflows

Choose the Support Model You Need

Tap into our ecosystem to cover projects of any size, complexity, or duration.

Examples from Data to Decisions

See how Australian businesses apply these solutions in practice.

  • Cupid Media- discover how we unified global analytics for a high-traffic international platform

  • Business Central- integrate ERP data directly into your reporting ecosystem for real-time financial clarity

  • Pharmaceuticals- drive compliance and innovation with rigorous, data-backed reporting frameworks

  • BI Analyst Services- transform raw metrics into strategic roadmaps with expert analysis


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