What is Microsoft Fabric?

Microsoft Fabric is a unified analytics platform that brings Lake house, Database, Data Warehouse, ELT/ETL pipelines, AI & Machine Learning and Power BI into one integrated cloud platform. This single integrated data platform provides for a simpler and more cost effective licensing model and a single administrative environment providing for easier security models and maintenance. Microsoft Fabric provides a modern foundation to support better governance, stronger control, and improved AI readiness.

What parts of the data journey can PTR help with?

PTR supports the full data lifecycle: collecting, storing, preparing, and serving data for analytics and reporting.

Does PTR offer mentoring as part of its consultancy?

Yes. PTR uses a mentoring and collaborative style, helping upskill internal teams while guiding them through design and implementation.

What tools are commonly used in data analytics?

Among the most common tools and data platforms are: - Power BI - Excel - Python - SQL databases - Azure Databricks - Fabric Lakehouse - R - Tableau - Azure - Fabric - AWS

What skills are needed for data analytics?

The most important data analytics skills include: - Data modelling - Data cleansing - SQL - Python or R - Visualisation tools like Power BI - Knowledge about your business processes and language

How can I encourage user adoption of BI?

Engage users early through workshops, training, feedback sessions, and consistent communication. Involvement builds advocacy and adoption.

What is Business Intelligence (BI)?

Business Intelligence refers to solutions that transform raw business data into meaningful reports and dashboards to support better decision‑making.

Data Analytics & Business Intelligence Consultancy Services

Data Analytics & Business Intelligence

Start unlocking insight from your data by working with our business intelligence team to communicate your data with meaning and purpose.

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What is Data Analytics?

Data analytics takes many different forms but is ultimately the art of presenting and unlocking insight from data. Whether that is straight forward operational reporting, insightful analysis with interactive dashboards, or impactful info-graphic style visualisations, there is an art and a science to communicating data in a way that really engages and informs its audience.

How can PTR help?

Data Modelling

Data Modelling is the process of applying meaning and context to your data.

Business Intelligence

See not just what is happening, but why, and inform actionable insight with engaging, interactive visualisations.

Operational Reporting

Seeing the detail is vital to support the day to day operations of any business.

Data Science

Combine advanced statistics and machine learning capabilities to explore the undiscovered patterns in your data.

Embedded Analytics

Put data at your customer's fingertips by embedding dashboards and reports directly into your SaaS application.

Technologies

We specialise in building data solutions in the Microsoft ecosystem. We have been a Microsoft partner since 2005, currently holding Solution Partner designation for Data & AI in Azure, with certifications held across the team in Microsoft Fabric, Azure, and Power BI so you can be confident that our knowledge and skills have been tried and tested.

Microsoft Power BI

With its rich, engaging, and extensible interactive visualisation platform, Power BI empowers you to turn data into insight, enabling users to answer their own questions and drive data decision making.

Microsoft Fabric

Microsoft Fabric is a unified analytics platform, an evolution of several existing Microsoft analytics products consolidated into a single administrative environment and licensing model which makes licensing, development, and administration much simpler.

Microsoft Azure

Azure is a public cloud offering from Microsoft. With an ever expanding marketplace of components and services available, you can build tailor made data platform solutions precisely to your specification.

Why choose PTR?

We have been helping our clients for over 35 years, bringing meaning and context to data for organisations of all shapes and sizes. We take the time to listen and learn everything we can about you, your business, your people, your data estate, and your aspirations to design and build practical and scalable solutions that deliver real return on investment.

Some of the people who have trusted us to unlock insight from their data:

How do we work with you?

Whether it's purely strategic advice, implementation and development work to spec, fractional business intelligence support, or a fully outsourced data function, we offer a range of flexible engagement patterns to suit every business, budget, and need.

Pay As You Go

FROM

£1,250/day

Flexible delivery as and when you need it

No Commitment
Time and Materials
Use us when you need us

Fixed Project Fee

PRICE

£On Request

Everything locked in up front

Fixed Deliverables
Fixed Fee
Clear timescales

Retained Service

FROM

£1,095/day

Cost effective and flexible resource augmentation

12 Month Agreement
Minimum 1 day/month
Discounted day rate
Predictable monthly billing
Flexible delivery
Easy top-up
Discounted training

What does this look like for you?

Everyone is different so we tailor our approach to reflect that by listening to you, understanding where you're starting, where you're aiming for, and what your priorities are. This is just an example of what a typical journey often looks like with us, yours may be different but the starting point is the same - a chat!

1 Hour - An introductory call with one of our solution architects to learn about your requirements and help us identify the best next steps for you.

Typically 3-5 days - A deep dive investigation of your business systems and data estate, your people and their skills, and your business needs and aspirations. We use this to put together a solid technical strategy and implementation plan for you.

Typically 5 Days - Particularly with larger projects, it is useful to demonstrate the technical feasibility and business value of a project before committing to long term spend. Not always necessary, but can help to firm up some variables and to measure consumption demands which can be difficult to predict in cloud environments.

Typically 10-20 Days - This really will be different for everyone and can vary widely, but we aim to work in short cycles that deliver quick results with scope for iterative onward development and flexibility to change requirements.

Typically 3-5 Days/Month - Once people get an appetite for data, it tends to keep growing and with it, requirements keep evolving. Our retainer service enables you to keep a highly skilled data team on hand to respond to those changing requirements under a predictable billing model to suit your budget.

Free Discovery Workshop

Data Discovery Project

Proof of Concept/Value (PoC/PoV)

Minimum Viable Product (MVP)

Retained Consultancy Service