BI · Dashboards · Data Analytics
Out of Excel.
Into clarity.
We build BI dashboards your leadership actually opens every Monday — because they finally see the numbers they need to decide with. In 3 weeks. Fixed price, clearly defined. NDA-first.
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Mittelstand · BI Reality
The Excel hell has a name: “Controlling”.
Not meant maliciously. This is reality in every third German mid-market company. And it costs you decision velocity every month.
47 Excel files in circulation
Nobody knows which one is current. Friday evening Müller produces the month-end. Then again. Version 7_FINAL_final_v3.
Numbers are 3 weeks old
In the monthly review you discuss what happened in November. It's mid-December. The market has turned twice.
SAP does it all — nobody looks inside
Four clicks per report. Every time. Nobody does this voluntarily. So they ask Mr. Schmidt. Mr. Schmidt is on holiday.
CRM, ERP, time tracking: 3 worlds
Revenue per employee? Three systems, three exports, two hours of puzzle. And nobody is sure the number is right.
Power BI was bought, nobody uses it
The license runs. The dashboards haven’t been touched in 14 months. “We really should…”
40 hours/week of Excel care
Your controller is a database. Every month. That's money burned and talent wasted at the same time.
What you have after the sprint
Three weeks. One dashboard. Opened every Monday.
Time to next decision — the number is there before the meeting starts.
First live KPIs on staging. You see your business in real time, not in the rearview mirror.
Production. Leadership uses the dashboard without asking you.
Code + docs belong to you. No lock-in, no "we-have-to-touch-it" retainer trap.
How we work
Plain language, not BI jargon.
We write dashboards for people who don’t have time for BI training. Every KPI has one sentence behind it explaining what it means in 5 seconds. Colors mean something (green = good, red = action needed). No pivot tables for executives.
Read-only on your ERP
No changes to SAP/proAlpha/abas. We read, you stay operational.
Incremental, not big-bang
Visible progress week by week. No 9-month black boxes.
Right tool for your context
Metabase for fast + affordable. Power BI if you’re MS-ecosystem. Custom Next.js if needed.
Handover without lock-in
Docs, runbooks, training. Your team can keep going — or our retainer takes over.
The BI Sprint · 3 weeks · fixed price
From kickoff to live in 21 days.
Discovery & Data-Check
- Kickoff workshop (2h) with stakeholders
- Data audit: Where is what? Who has access?
- KPI definition — max 6 numbers for the first dashboard
- Staging environment + data warehouse setup
- Connector to 1st data source (SAP/Excel/DB)
Build & Iterate
- All KPIs live on staging — you can click through
- Weekly review on Friday, feedback incorporated
- Connector to 2nd data source (CRM/time tracking)
- Transformations in dbt — reproducible, testable
- Roles & permissions
Launch & Handover
- Migration staging → production
- Training leadership (1h) + admin (2h)
- Runbooks + monitoring + alerting
- Documentation handover — everything belongs to you
- 14-day support guarantee after launch
Toolkit
We're tool-agnostic. The problem dictates the stack.
No one-size-fits-all. What you have, we use. What's missing, we pick by fit — not by commission.
BI Frontend
Data Layer
Storage
Sources
Hosting
What we’ve already built
Use cases that work concretely in Central Germany.
Logistics & Freight
- Real-time on-time delivery (SLA)
- Revenue & margin per tour / driver
- Diesel & toll tracking
- Fleet utilization
Manufacturing
- OEE (Overall Equipment Effectiveness)
- Target vs actual per shift
- Complaint rate by product line
- Order cycle time
Retail & E-commerce
- Stock turnover per SKU
- Margin heatmap by category
- Out-of-stock early warning
- Regional revenue drift
Services & Consulting
- Live project margins
- Billable vs non-billable
- Team utilization
- Customer lifetime value
Up to 50 % grant. You just don’t know about it yet.
Germany’s Federal Ministry (BMWK) and Hesse generously fund digitalization projects for mid-market companies. "Digital Jetzt" and "go-digital" both cover up to 50 % of project costs. Both apply explicitly to BI projects.
We’re not authorized funding consultants. But we know people who are. If helpful, we refer — free of charge, no obligation.
Packages · Fixed price · No fine print
Three paths. You choose.
Data-Check
30 min · no commitment
You don’t know where you stand? Neither do we — until we look in.
- 30-min call with senior engineer
- We look at your systems (read-only)
- Honest assessment: do you need BI? Or something else?
- Rough scope + price range if it makes sense
- NDA upfront — always
BI Sprint Starter
3 weeks · clear scope
One dashboard. Live. Your leadership opens it every Monday.
- 1 central executive dashboard
- Connection to 1–2 data sources (SAP/ERP/CRM/Excel)
- Metabase, Power BI or Looker — your choice
- 4–6 KPIs · with drill-down · with filters
- Training (leadership + admin) + 14-day support
- Documentation + code — all yours
BI Platform Build
8–12 weeks · custom scope
You want BI done right. Data warehouse, multiple dashboards, deep integration.
- Data warehouse (BigQuery / Snowflake / Postgres)
- dbt pipelines with testing + scheduling
- Multiple dashboards for different roles
- Deep SAP/ERP integration (RFC/OData/iDoc)
- Roles, auditing, monitoring, alerting
- Training + migration + retainer option
Optional after go-live: Data Retainer for maintenance, new dashboards on demand, monthly KPI reviews. Terms defined in the Discovery call.
Frequently asked
What Mittelstand leaders usually ask us.
Yes. We build connectors that automatically ingest and version your Excel files. Later we migrate step-by-step to a proper database — you stay operational the whole time.
No. We only read. No changes to your ERP, no risk to operational processes. We use standard extractors (RFC, OData) or existing export jobs.
Significantly less. Big-4 consultancies work with three-tier team pyramids where junior consultants bill at senior rates. We don't. We share a concrete fixed price after the Discovery call — transparent, no fine print.
You do. We hand over documentation, runbooks and training. If your team has no capacity, our Data Retainer covers maintenance and minor changes — terms defined in the Discovery call.
Day 10. By week 2 you see the first live KPIs on staging. By week 3 the dashboard is in production and your leadership uses it.
Both work. On-premise (your server, your firewall), cloud (Hetzner or AWS in Germany), or hybrid. Always GDPR-compliant, no US transfer unless you want it.
With "Digital Jetzt" (German federal program) often up to 50 % grants. With "go-digital" the same. We're not funding advisors, but we refer to authorized consultants who handle the applications for you.
Very common. Our free 30-min Data-Check answers exactly this. We look into your systems together and tell you what you have, what's missing, and what the best next step is — no sales pressure.
Know what you actually have — in 30 minutes.
The Data-Check is free, NDA-first, and you get an honest assessment. No sales show.