Microsoft Azure Consultant | Reporting and Analytics

Key Points

  • Microsoft Azure services integrate with Microsoft Office 365 and Power BI
  • You can provision Enterprise grade servers, databases, and BI services, for a small hourly cost
  • CMBI provides design and development expertise in all areas of Microsoft Azure BI, reporting, and analytics

Cloud based business intelligence, reporting and analytics at your fingertips with low startup and ongoing maintenance costs

CMBI can help you unlock the full potential of Microsoft Azure's myriad of services and capabilities for business intelligence, reporting, analytics, and data integration.

Low start up costs and no infrastructure management

If you want to build reporting and analytics for your on-premises or SaaS applications but do not want to manage infrastructure or pay large upfront licence costs, then Azure is the answer.

CMBI's Azure services

CMBI specialise in the Azure services that support reporting and analytics. We can guide you through the entire Azure journey from initial setup, choosing between services, data integration, through to delivering end user reporting and insights


Using Azure, CMBI can now deliver end-to-end BI platforms at a fraction of the upfront investment required for similar on-premises deployments.


CMBI's Azure expertise

The key to managing Azure services effectively is that you only pay for uptime. We carefully configure scheduling and use of Azure resources. This allows us to build solutions using technology that would have previously required large upfront investment.


SQL Virtual Machines

End-to-end Microsoft business intelligence on a single machine

SQL Database Service

Cost effective database storage and querying for integrating reporting data

Analysis Services

We use Analysis Services for instant query response on large datasets, financial modelling and data integration

Data Integration

Using Data Factory and Integration Services we can integrate data from our on-premise and SaaS systems

Extend on premises DW

Extend or migrate existing on-premises data warehouse solutions into the cloud

Azure Cost Management

We will show you how to estimate and manage Azure subscription costs

Power BI integration

Integrate Power BI with Azure services and databases for improved performance, automation and scalability

Microsoft 365 and Excel

Ad hoc analysis and integrated report authoring of Azure datasets in Excel

Azure engagement structure

CMBI typically start new client engagements with a short Discovery Phase. We work collaboratively with your stakeholders to understand your requirements, discuss options and outcomes, and develop a lightweight prototype so that you can see and touch the benefits.


Typically, the Discovery Phase is a 2 to 5 day engagement over a couple of weeks duration. We can come on site or work remotely to demonstrate capabilities and to complete all aspects of configuration and development.