End-to-end dashboards, data models & ERP integration · Automate your manual Excel spreadsheets
Power BI consulting · Reporting automation
CMN Consulting helps organisations across South Africa build better reporting and automate the work behind it — using Power BI, Excel and Power Query. We design and build Power BI solutions, improve environments that aren't working as they should, and automate the manual reporting that eats your team's time.
We provide cost-effective, practical solutions, often using the tools you already have. And because we combine technology expertise with real-world finance and operational experience, we understand both the reporting requirement and the process behind it.
You work directly with the consultant who does the work — no layers or unnecessary hand-offs. That means faster answers and more responsive delivery.
| Manual / spreadsheet reporting | Power BI reporting | |
|---|---|---|
| Getting the report ready | Days of assembling and reconciling by hand | Automated refresh — minutes, not days |
| Where the data lives | Copies scattered across files and versions | One reconciled model — a single source |
| Accuracy | Broken formulas, version mix-ups, missed exceptions | Full-population checks, reconciled to source |
| Access | Static files emailed around | Live, interactive dashboards with drill-through |
| Where your team's time goes | Building the numbers | Analysing them and deciding |
| Trust in the figures | “Which version is right?” | Numbers tie back to your existing reports |
Power BI consulting
Reporting data rarely lives in one place. We design and build Power BI solutions around your requirements — connecting your sources into one clean, reconciled model that feeds every dashboard, so each team sees its own view and the executive and group figures are always the sum of the parts.
What we offer
Wherever you are with Power BI — starting out, moving across, or getting more from what you already have — there's a service to match.
Built end to end — data model, DAX and dashboards — reconciled to your reports before go-live.
Move off spreadsheets or another BI tool without losing the logic you rely on.
An expert on call for fixes, refresh failures and day-to-day questions. More →
Review, fix and restructure what you already have so it reconciles and gets used.
Running highly manual Excel reports? See Automate manual Excel reporting & consolidation →
How we work
A straightforward process focused on the reporting requirement, the solution and the results.
We map your existing reports, data sources, manual steps and requirements.
Every source is connected and the clean-up recorded once in Power Query, feeding a single model.
Automated outputs run in parallel with your current reports and are reconciled before go-live.
Refresh, access and security are set up, and your team is trained to use and maintain it.
Prefer to keep an expert on call after go-live? Our Power BI Support service has you covered. For the full method, see our Roadmap & Checklist for Finance Process Automation.
Depending on complexity, your reports can be up and running within one to two weeks. Multiple projects or complex environments add two to three weeks. See our Power BI implementation timeline.
It depends on scope — the number and complexity of your data sources, the state of the data, and how many reports and users are involved. See our Power BI consultant cost guide for the pricing models.
Both: on-site in the major cities where it adds value, and remote everywhere else.
Yes. Many engagements start there.
Yes. Training and handover are part of every engagement.
Implementation Guide
The ten steps that make a Power BI implementation succeed — from reconciliation to ownership.
More →Pricing & Cost
How Power BI consultants price their work, and what drives the total cost of an engagement.
More →Project Planning
How long a Power BI implementation really takes, the phases involved, and what speeds it up.
More →We provide Power BI consulting in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Pretoria, Durban and East London, and across the rest of South Africa — on-site where it adds value and remotely everywhere else.
Show us what you're doing today. We'll look at the process and help identify what can be automated, simplified or improved.
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