Power BI Development Services in Dayton, Ohio | Sunflower Lab
Power BI & Fabric Consulting — Dayton, OH

Empower Your Dayton Business by Tapping into Smart Data through Power BI

Turn scattered ERP, SharePoint, and spreadsheet data into real-time dashboards built for Dayton's manufacturing and defense-supplier base. Centralize inventory, work orders, and compliance metrics into one source of truth — ready for immediate business analysis.

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Overview
Data Analysis

Data Analysis in Dayton with Real-Time Business Intelligence

Our experts at Sunflower Lab build interactive dashboards and reports that turn raw, complex operational metrics into actionable insight for Dayton-area manufacturers, suppliers, and healthcare providers through the power of Power BI.

  • Track inventory, backlogs, revenues, pipelines, and orders on a single dashboard.
  • Real-time dynamic updates ensure you act on today's figures, not yesterday's.
  • Audit-ready reporting and row-level security for suppliers working under defense and aerospace compliance requirements.
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TOTAL REVENUE $2.4M INVENTORY VALUE $480K ACTIVE ORDERS 1,582
Power BI Meets Microsoft Fabric
Unified Data Ecosystem

Power BI Meets Microsoft Fabric

Microsoft Fabric is Microsoft's unified data platform, seamlessly combining data lake capabilities (OneLake), data engineering pipelines, data warehousing, and Power BI into one SaaS environment. For Dayton businesses already using Power BI, Fabric eliminates fragmented data repositories, simplifying storage, sharing, and governance.

Fabric Consultation
SharePoint Integration

Power BI Dashboards + SharePoint

A Power BI dashboard is only as reliable as what's behind it. Most teams patch it together from exports, manual refreshes, and a spreadsheet someone updates "when they get a chance" — so two people pull up the same report and get two different numbers. Sunflower Lab builds Power BI dashboards that connect directly to your Dayton team's existing SharePoint lists and libraries, so the data stays live, permissioned, and traceable back to a single source.

SharePoint Consultation
Power BI Dashboards + SharePoint
Our Offerings

Power BI App Development Services

Empower your Dayton business with smart data modeling, analytics integration, custom reporting tools, and seamless data visualization.

Power BI Dashboard Development

We create beautiful, unified control panels showing dynamic and real-time operational indicators rather than delayed static figures.

Dashboards

DAX in Power BI

Our team enhances standard dashboards using advanced DAX modeling queries to enable time-intelligence and complex analytical math formulas.

DAX Analytics

Power BI Integration

Integrate interactive reports into SharePoint, Dynamics 365, Teams, and custom client-facing applications via secure APIs.

APIs & Embedded

Power BI Reporting

Design optimized, paginated documents and mobile reports so teams can share, filter, and review insights securely while on the go.

Mobile Reports

Data Modeling

Establish high-quality, normalized schemas, relations, and stars to maintain computational performance even when handling billions of records.

Schemas & Modeling

Power BI Migration

Ensure seamless consolidation onto Power BI and Fabric from older reporting systems like Tableau, Cognos, or scattered Excel sheets.

Migration
Platform Highlights

Why Businesses Choose Power BI

A deep dive into the technical features that drive analytical capabilities.

Interactive Visualizations

Raw numbers are difficult to digest. Visualization transforms tabular records into responsive maps, column charts, scatter plots, tree maps, and pie charts. Customize visual templates to match company branding while giving end users absolute filtering options.

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Cloud-Based Access & Pipelines

Access analytics from anywhere. The cloud-based Power BI Service supports automated gateway synchronization, scheduled data flow refreshes, row-level security, and seamless embedding within external portal structures.

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Workspace & Team Collaboration

Eliminate duplicate Excel copies and version confusion. Build reports in dedicated team workspaces, configure granular view/edit permissions, write comments, tag peers, and share live interactive charts directly inside Microsoft Teams channels.

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Advanced Data Modeling

Perform lightning-fast analysis on millions of records. Power BI employs advanced data compression, normalization techniques, time-intelligence variables, and DAX query optimization, maintaining swift loading speeds across large datasets.

Consult Data Architect

Secure Mobile Access

Check key metrics on the road. The responsive Power BI Mobile application offers offline views, alerts on threshold deviations, and secure active directory authorization checks matching web-portal security levels.

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Comparison

Power BI Only vs Power BI + Fabric

How standard reporting compares to a unified, end-to-end data platform.

Capability
Power BI Only
RecommendedPower BI + Fabric
Data storage
✕Separate warehouse / lake needed
✓Unified OneLake
Data preparation
✕External ETL tools
✓Native Data Factory
AI readiness
✕Manual data preparation for AI
✓AI-ready by default
Licensing
✕Per-user Power BI licensing
✓Capacity-based, scales with usage
Scalability
✕Limited to reporting workloads
✓End-to-end data platform
Best for
★Single-source reporting
★Multi-source, AI-driven analytics organizations
Our Success

Transformations We've Delivered

See how manufacturers like Dayton's have used Power BI to optimize operations.

Case Study: AMOT

Optimizing Manufacturing Operations Through Power BI

AMOT, a manufacturer of thermostatic control valves, replaced fragmented spreadsheet reporting with live Power BI dashboards — giving leadership the same real-time visibility into revenue, inventory, and bookings that Dayton's manufacturing and supply-chain operations need to compete on delivery and compliance.

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AMOT Power BI sales overview dashboard
MAI shift management automation case study
Case Study: MAI

1,200 Hours Saved Automating Shift Management

Modular Assembly Innovations (MAI), an automotive sub-assembly manufacturer, paired Power BI with Power Apps, Power Automate, and Azure Data Lake to automate shift management — saving 1,200 hours of manual work. The same stack applies directly to Dayton's automotive and advanced-manufacturing suppliers running shift-based production.

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Gene Boucher Profile

"Zinniax has dramatically improved the efficiency of our operations. Repetitive and time-consuming tasks that used to take up a significant portion of the team's workday are now handled seamlessly by the RPA system. This allows to redirect of resources and manpower toward more strategic and high-value tasks. Your team's support throughout the development and implementation process has been exceptional."

Gene Boucher

Chief Executive Officer, Zinniax

Experience the Power of Power BI in Dayton

Ready to see how real-time dashboards and Microsoft Fabric can optimize your Dayton operation's overhead and streamline reporting? Talk to one of our certified data architects today.

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Coverage

Other Cities We Serve

Power BI and Microsoft Fabric consulting across our other service areas.

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FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Have questions about Power BI or Microsoft Fabric consulting for your Dayton business? We have answers.

Yes. We build dashboards for Dayton-area manufacturers and defense/aerospace suppliers that need audit-ready reporting — work-order tracking, inventory visibility, and supplier compliance metrics that hold up under defense-industry scrutiny. Row-level security and full audit trails come standard on these builds, not as an add-on.
Microsoft Fabric is Microsoft's unified data platform — it combines data storage (OneLake), data pipelines, and Power BI into one governed environment. Power BI alone works well if a Dayton business reports from a single clean data source. Fabric becomes worth the added capacity-based licensing once you're pulling from multiple systems — ERP, SharePoint, a data warehouse — and need one platform instead of several stitched together.
Yes — this is usually the first thing we check. Power BI and Fabric connect directly to SharePoint lists and libraries, plus most ERP systems, through native connectors or Data Factory pipelines. Instead of exporting to spreadsheets and re-uploading, your Dayton team's dashboard reads live from the source system, so the numbers match what's actually there.
Most Dayton engagements run a few weeks to a few months, depending on the number of data sources, the complexity of the dashboards, and whether Microsoft Fabric integration is part of the scope. A single-source dashboard moves fastest; multi-system builds pulling from ERP, SharePoint, and a data warehouse take longer to model correctly.
Delivery is remote, run from our US-based team out of Columbus and Somerset, New Jersey — no offshore handoff. Remote delivery keeps Dayton engagements moving faster and lower-cost than requiring on-site presence for every milestone; kickoff and review sessions can be scheduled as video calls or in-person by request.
Manufacturing and aerospace/defense supply chain operations see the fastest payoff, since they're already tracking work orders, inventory, and compliance data across disconnected systems. Healthcare is a strong second fit — claims processing and patient-history analytics, the same pattern behind our ZinniaX case study. If a Dayton business sits outside these two, we'll say so directly rather than force-fitting a generic dashboard.
Cost depends on the number of data sources, integration complexity, and whether Microsoft Fabric capacity licensing (F2 through F2048 SKUs) is needed on top of standard Power BI. Sunflower Lab offers a free assessment to scope a Dayton engagement and recommend the right architecture before quoting.
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