Our Power BI dashboards look great until I ask a question. Then I find out three of the four numbers don't reconcile to Xero.
Reporting platform
Power BI automation, built for Australian finance teams.
Every mid-market finance team has Power BI. Very few trust the numbers. The automation opportunity lives underneath the dashboards, in the data model and the pipeline.
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named automations shipped on Power BI
10
Context
Why Power BI matters for mid-market finance.
Power BI is the dominant reporting platform for Australian mid-market finance teams, especially those on a Microsoft stack. Almost every mid-market business we work with already has it. Almost none are getting the value the licence implies. The gap between 'we have Power BI' and 'our finance reporting runs automatically on Power BI and I trust the numbers' is typically six to twelve months of structured data work: pipelines, data models, reconciliation governance. Ordron's Power BI automation is mostly about that structural layer. The visuals on top become easy once the layer underneath is sound.
Power BI is the ledger. The hours live in the gaps between Power BI and everything else in your stack. The job is to close those gaps, not to replace Power BI.
Where the hours go
The four signals that Power BI is costing you more than it should.
We're paying a consultant $180 an hour to maintain Power BI data pipelines that break every month.
Every new report in Power BI takes six weeks to deliver because the data model underneath wasn't built properly in the first place.
Power BI is on, the data is feeding, and nobody on the finance team can explain why the number changed last week.
What we’ve shipped
10 automations we’ve built on Power BI.
Grouped by where they sit in your finance month. Each one is a named build Ordron has shipped, not a capability slide. Tap a card to see what it actually does.
Accounts Receivable
1 automationMonth-end close
2 automationsReporting
7 automationsCost of inaction
What Power BI is costing your team in manual work.
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The Power BI hours, in dollars.
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5people
1FTEs in finance and accounting30
300per week
0Bills in plus AR invoices out1,500
10days
1From period end to signed-off reports20
Current platformChanges the named automations shown
All dollar figures in AUD. Assumes a blended finance rate of $55/hour and 50 working weeks per year.
Your annual cost of manual finance
$106,400
Ordron-style automation typically captures $79,500 of that per year. On a typical $10,000 project, payback lands at roughly 7 weeks.
The approach
How Ordron automates on Power BI.
Power BI work starts underneath the visualisation layer. Ordron's first step is almost always to audit or rebuild the data model and data pipelines, because Power BI dashboards built on a bad data model compound errors faster than they surface them. The controlled Azure database becomes the single source of truth, Power BI pulls from there with lineage and validation enforced, and every report reconciles back to source systems at every refresh. The consultant bill for pipeline maintenance drops, and the CFO trusts the number.
Database-first
Every transaction, contact and tracking category writes to a structured Azure-hosted database you own. The platform stays the ledger; your data is never vendor-locked.
Automation layer
OCR, coding models, matching rules and approval workflows run next to the platform, tuned to your chart of accounts and approval thresholds.
Control Panel
Your team logs into one interface to review exceptions, see throughput, and audit every automated action, with a named owner for every exception path.
Proof
Power BIwork we’ve shipped.
- Financial Services
Custom data integration platform
70% less manual data prep
External market APIs, internal Excel and third-party sources unified into a single validated cloud database with real-time advisor dashboards.
- Distribution
On-demand finance reporting
Reporting: overnight lag to on-demand
Daily management packs compiled automatically from Xero, a TMS and spreadsheet exports, delivered before 8 a.m.
- Manufacturing
Automated invoice and reporting hub
75% of invoices processed automatically
Email intake, OCR extraction, PO matching, auto-approval under preset rules, and a live spend dashboard.
Go deeper
Related automation guides.
The pillar guides unpack each function across every platform, not just Power BI. Useful when you are benchmarking or briefing the rest of the leadership team.
Next step
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