Product
Power BI
About
Business intelligence and data visualization platform for creating interactive dashboards and reports from construction project data. Used by AEC firms for portfolio analytics and KPI tracking.
How teams use it
By audience
- Construction Management
- Builds project-control dashboards tracking schedule progress, earned value, and milestone variance against baseline
- Visualizes cost-to-complete, committed vs. forecast costs, and change-order impacts pulled from the PM/ERP system
- Surfaces field productivity, RFI/submittal aging, and open-issue trends from tools like Procore and Fieldwire
- Rolls up multi-project portfolio KPIs so PMs can compare jobs on margin, schedule, and risk in one view
- General Contracting
- Consolidates data across Procore, Smartsheet, and ERP into self-serve project and portfolio reporting
- Tracks subcontractor performance, buyout status, and committed-cost positions across active jobs
- Builds cash-flow and billing dashboards (AIA pay apps, retainage, WIP) for operations review
- Monitors safety, quality, and labor-hour metrics from field-management feeds for jobsite oversight
- Owner/Developer
- Aggregates capital-program data across projects for portfolio-level budget and schedule oversight
- Tracks owner cost exposure, funding draws, and contingency burn against development pro formas
- Provides transparency into contractor-reported progress without granting direct PM-tool access
- Supports go/no-go and milestone-gate reporting for boards and investment committees
- Executive Leadership
- Delivers executive dashboards summarizing backlog, revenue, margin, and win-rate across the business
- Combines ERP financials with PM and CRM data for company-wide KPI and OKR tracking
- Enables drill-down from company totals to division, region, and individual project performance
- Provides scheduled/automatically-refreshed reports and mobile views for leadership and board meetings
- Accounting & Finance
- Connects directly to ERP systems (Deltek Vantagepoint, Unanet) via ODBC/JDBC for financial reporting
- Builds WIP, over/under-billing, and revenue-recognition schedules from job-cost data
- Tracks AR/AP aging, cash flow, and DSO across projects and entities
- Produces budget-vs-actual and margin-analysis reports replacing manual spreadsheet roll-ups
By phase
- Concept & Planning
- Models capital-budget scenarios and feasibility pro formas with interactive what-if parameters
- Aggregates historical cost benchmarks to inform early estimates and program targets
- Tracks pipeline and pursuit data from CRM to support project-selection decisions
- Visualizes high-level schedule and funding assumptions for stakeholder alignment
- Design
- Reports design-progress and deliverable status across disciplines and milestones
- Tracks design-phase budget burn and consultant fee/utilization from the ERP
- Aggregates BIM/model-derived quantity and metadata exports for design-decision dashboards
- Monitors RFI and review-cycle turnaround during design development
- Pre-Construction
- Dashboards estimate accuracy, bid coverage, and buyout savings against budget
- Tracks subcontractor bid status, scope-gap risks, and trade-package readiness
- Visualizes value-engineering options and their cost/schedule impacts
- Reports procurement and long-lead-item timelines feeding the construction schedule
- Construction
- Provides live project-control dashboards for cost, schedule, and earned value during execution
- Tracks change orders, committed costs, and forecast-to-complete from Procore/ERP feeds
- Surfaces field productivity, labor hours, safety, and quality metrics from field tools
- Monitors RFI, submittal, and issue aging to flag risks across active jobs
- Closeout & Operations
- Tracks punchlist, closeout-document, and warranty completion status at project handover
- Reports final cost reconciliation, retainage release, and final margin vs. budget
- Aggregates lessons-learned and historical performance data to benchmark future projects
- Supports owner operations reporting on assets, maintenance, and ongoing portfolio KPIs