Power BI integration services

Your ERP, CRM, and ecommerce data, live in Power BI. Finally.

Power BI is already in your Microsoft stack. Your data is not. We connect Dynamics 365, Shopify, your warehouse, and every other source to live Power BI dashboards. No more manual exports. No more Monday morning spreadsheet assembly.

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Power BI projects delivered
14 days
To your first live dashboard
Zero
Manual exports after go-live

Send your brief -> call in 48 hours -> scoped proposal in 3 days -> first dashboard live 14 days after sign-off

Analytics team reviewing live Power BI dashboard screens in an operations center
The manual reporting problem

Your team makes decisions on data that is already days old.

Every department has a report. No report is current. Someone is always exporting, combining, and formatting data before leadership can decide.

Stale data
Sales
3 weeks old, manual export
Finance
5 days old, spreadsheet
Inventory
Daily email, 24h lag
Operations
Weekly report, manual
Marketing
2 weeks old, exported CSV
Customer data
Customer relationship management export, 3 day lag
Fulfillment
Manual 3PL report, daily
eCommerce
Shopify export, 24h lag
What this means for leadership
Every decision your leadership team makes today uses data that was accurate 3 to 21 days ago. By the time a report is built, formatted, and shared, the business has already moved.
What Power BI integration changes
Switch to "After" above and see the difference. All 8 departments update automatically from their source systems. Every dashboard is current the moment it opens.
Data analyst at desk surrounded by printed reports and open spreadsheet tabs showing manual reporting burden
Calculate your return on investment

How much does manual reporting cost your team per year?

Set the sliders to match your reporting team. See how much time and money you recover each year by replacing manual exports with live Power BI dashboards.

8
1 report30 reports
3h
1 hour16 hours
$60
$25/h$150/h
Your current manual reporting load
24h
per week across your reporting team, on work Power BI integration automates
Hours eliminated per week
20h
returned to strategic work every week
Annual value of Power BI integration
$62,400
based on your inputs above
Full weeks of team time per year
13
weeks returned from manual reporting to actual analysis
Get My Full ROI Breakdown

No commitment. No pitch. Call within 48 hours.

How it works

From your source systems to live Power BI dashboards in five steps.

01
Data audit

Map every source to every metric

We audit each system -- ERP, CRM, ecommerce, WMS -- and map which fields drive which metrics. You sign off on the architecture before the build starts.

02
Connector build

Live API connectors for each system

Built for your specific ERP version and field structure, so data flows correctly from day one. Incremental refresh by default. No full-dataset pulls that slow your production system.

03
Data model

One semantic model, all sources

A single Power BI dataset combines your ERP, CRM, and ecommerce data. Metrics defined once. Consistent across every report and dashboard.

04
Dashboard build

Dashboards for your actual decisions

Finance view, ops view, executive summary. Built for the decisions each team makes, not generic templates. Row-level security configured per role.

05
Go-live

Day 14, live in production

Production deployment, refresh schedules, row-level security, and team training. Full PBIX and documentation delivered. Your engineers can extend it independently.

Connected systems

Every data source your Power BI dashboards need.

ERP systems
Dynamics 365 Finance
Dynamics 365 Business Central
Dynamics NAV
Custom ERP via API
eCommerce
Shopify + Shopify Plus
Adobe Commerce
BigCommerce
Headless stores via API
CRM
Dynamics 365 Sales
Salesforce
HubSpot
Custom CRM via API
Warehousing
3PL warehouse APIs
Warehouse management system platforms
Inventory systems
EDI fulfillment feeds
Databases
SQL Server
Azure SQL
PostgreSQL
Flat file and CSV sources
Marketing
Klaviyo
Google Analytics
Meta Ads API
Email platform APIs
Finance
Xero / QuickBooks
Stripe / Braintree
Avalara
Custom general ledger exports
Custom sources
REST API endpoints
Webhook streams
Azure Data Lake
On-premise databases
Client proof

From disconnected Shopify and ERP data to one Power BI source of truth. $70M in annual revenue.

Revenue achieved
$0M
Annual revenue through unified reporting and integrated data operations
What integration unified
Shopify eCommerceLive
Dynamics 365 ERPLive
Power BI reportingLive
Payment systemsLive
Large monitor displaying live Power BI dashboard with ecommerce revenue and inventory metrics
Home furnishingseCommerce
A multi-channel window treatment and home decor retailer. Ecommerce, wholesale, and custom installation channels. High SKU volume and a complex product catalog.
Challenge
Sales data in Shopify. Financial data in Dynamics 365 ERP. Marketing data in separate platforms. None connected. Leadership made decisions from spreadsheets that were 24 to 48 hours stale. No single view of revenue, margin, or inventory.
Power BI integration approach
Custom integration connecting Shopify to Dynamics 365 ERP with Power BI dashboards. Payment gateway data, custom API integrations, and unified product catalog data all feeding one reporting layer.
Power BIDynamics 365 ERPShopifyCustom APIs
Result
$70M annual revenue, every channel visible in one dashboard
Live dashboards replaced all manual reporting. Leadership now opens Power BI instead of waiting for exported spreadsheets. Every revenue, inventory, and margin metric current when the dashboard loads.
Why choose Redefine

Why your Power BI integration needs more than a connector template.

We design the data model before the dashboard build, not after

Generic Power BI connector tools skip the data model step. They import raw tables and leave your team to figure out relationships. We design the semantic model first. Every metric defined, every relationship mapped, every dimension correct before a single visual is built. Dashboards that load correctly and stay correct as your data scales.

Architecture-first

Incremental refresh built so your ERP stays fast

Other integrations do full-dataset imports on every refresh. That means millions of ERP rows pulled at once, slowing your production system and hitting API rate limits. We design refresh strategies for your specific system: incremental refresh, change-data-capture for high-volume tables, and scheduled windows that respect your ERP peak hours. Performance is a requirement, not an afterthought.

Performance-aware

Row-level security that maps to your actual organizational chart

Most Power BI connector guides leave row-level security as a manual post-launch task. We configure it as part of the build. Sales managers see their territory. Regional leads see their region. Executives see everything. Security defined before go-live. Configured against your Entra ID or Active Directory structure, not a placeholder example.

Security-built-in

You receive the PBIX file, dataset definition, and full refresh documentation

At go-live you receive the complete deliverables package: PBIX source files, Power Query M scripts, DAX measure library, dataset schema documentation, refresh configuration guide, and a runbook for extending any dashboard. Your internal team or any future partner can maintain, extend, and troubleshoot without coming back to us. No lock-in. Everything yours on day one.

Full code ownership
Common questions

What buyers ask before starting a Power BI integration project.

Yes. You need Power BI Pro (for sharing dashboards) or Power BI Premium (for larger datasets and more frequent refresh). We do not resell Microsoft licenses, but we advise on the right tier for your use case before the proposal stage.

Power BI's built-in connectors connect to generic endpoints. They do not understand your ERP's custom fields, your CRM's territory structure, or how your Shopify stores map to your ERP product hierarchy. A custom integration creates the translation between your data structure and what Power BI needs to calculate your metrics correctly. The result is dashboards that show your actual business numbers, not raw imported tables.

Refresh frequency depends on your license tier and data volume. Power BI Pro supports up to 8 refreshes per day; Power BI Premium supports up to 48. We configure the right schedule for each dataset based on how time-sensitive that data is, financial data refreshing every 3 hours, sales pipeline refreshing every 30 minutes if supported. We also design incremental refresh for large tables so only new records are pulled, not the full dataset, which keeps refresh times fast.

We build Power BI integrations against your ERP's API layer, not against internal database tables. This means an ERP version upgrade typically only requires updating the connector's API endpoint version, not rebuilding the data model or dashboards. We document the API versions our connectors target in the delivery documentation so your team can plan ahead for any required updates when you upgrade.

A single-source integration -- say, Power BI connected to Dynamics 365 ERP with a standard dashboard set -- typically goes live in 14 days. Multi-source projects connecting ERP, CRM, and ecommerce with a full executive dashboard suite typically run 3 to 5 weeks. We commit to a specific go-live date per milestone in the proposal.

Start your Power BI project

Get a scoped Power BI proposal in 3 days.

No commitment. No pitch. Tell us which systems need to connect to Power BI. We will send a line-by-line proposal with data model, connector, and dashboard scope.

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Your data, live in Power BI. Done in 14 days.

Tell us your data sources. We will send a scoped proposal with your connector architecture, data model design, and dashboard scope. No commitment. No pitch.

No commitment. No pitch. Call within 48 hours.

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Your Power BI layer, day 14 post go-live
Dynamics 365 ERP → Power BILive, 8x daily refresh
Shopify → Power BILive, 30min refresh
Customer relationship management pipeline → Power BILive, 1h refresh
Row-level securityConfigured
All sources live. Zero manual exports.
Day 14 of 14
Two integration architects mapping Power BI data source connections on a whiteboard

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