Bahler Management + Reporting Hub
How a three-person data team unified reporting across three construction subsidiaries — one governed portal, live in three weeks with no prior Azure experience.
Three subsidiaries, three reporting worlds
SSRS, manually shared Excel files, and Power BI Report Server — users navigated 12+ separate URLs to find the reports they needed.
Every grant was manual, report by report — and the three-person data team (one lead, one engineer, one contractor) carried all of it.
FBI Buildings, BG Supply, and Aspen Group shared leadership but ran siloed reporting — leaders couldn’t see performance across the portfolio.
Inconsistent SSRS reports were slow and pushed cloud costs up. CIO Brian Laird’s mandate: become data-driven — without requiring deep Azure expertise.
One portal, three weeks
One customizable portal where each team sees only its own reports — row-level security tailored to each subsidiary’s ERP data.
The guided Azure setup had Bahler deployed in three weeks — versus the 8+ months a traditional Power BI Embedded build would have taken.
Azure Active Directory integration manages access by group. Developers publish once, configure access, and reports are immediately available — no manual distribution, no messy URLs.
Optimizing the semantic model cut cloud compute costs and sped up report load times — an unexpected win that reinforced the choice.
Senior leaders now check KPIs whenever they want — no data-team ticket required — and Bahler rates Reporting Hub’s support as top-tier.
“The Reporting Hub has made BI fun and approachable. It’s exactly what we needed to help our teams adopt a data-first mindset without the usual headaches.”
