BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE

From 3-day reports to real-time Power BI

ROLE

Data & Business Analyst, Huawei Technologies

TOOLS

Power BI · SQL · Excel

TIMEFRAME

Oct 2024 to present

IMPACT

3-day manual process → near real-time

Stylised dashboard with KPI tiles and an upward line chart in navy on mint

The challenge

Lead KPI reporting on conversion, campaign performance and revenue movement took three days of manual work per cycle. By the time numbers reached decision-makers, the moment to act on them had often passed. Deep dives were expensive, so they rarely happened.

The approach

I rebuilt the reporting pipeline around automated Power BI dashboards fed directly from campaign and subscriber data. The design principle: every metric a marketing lead or executive asks about weekly should be self-serve, current and drillable. I modelled the data for fast slicing by segment, channel and campaign, and designed dashboard views for two distinct audiences: executives who need the headline in five seconds, and analysts who need to interrogate the “why” underneath it.

The outcome

Reporting went from a 3-day manual process to near real-time. Marketing and executive teams now run monthly and ad-hoc deep dives on performance gaps and emerging trends themselves, and analyst time moved from assembling numbers to explaining them.

BY THE NUMBERS

3 days → live

reporting cycle time

2

audiences served: executive & analyst views

100%

of lead KPIs self-serve and drillable

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