Move beyond Excel in 10 days: a turnkey industrial reporting cockpit
The Industrial Data Starter Pack helps you move from scattered Excel files to a simple and reliable Power BI management cockpit, focused on your production, inventory, orders and margins. No need to hire a data team or invest in a complex IT project.
✅ Designed for industrial SMEs with 20 to 250 employees
✅ Based on your current systems: ERP, MES, Excel, etc.
✅ Delivered in 10 working days
✅ Hosted in a sovereign Swiss cloud, on a professional BI infrastructure
Your teams spend hours in Excel to manage production
If you recognize your situation in the examples below, you are not alone:
- Data is scattered across ERP systems, Excel files and business applications
- Each department has “its own” file, with its own calculations and errors
- To answer a simple question — “What is my usable stock?”, “What margin do we make on this product?” — several spreadsheets must be cross-checked
- No one fully trusts the figures, especially when decisions become strategic
The result: too much energy is wated manipulating data, and too little time is left for analysis, decisions and action.
Every hour spent fixing an Excel file is one hour less spent optimizing your production.
The Industrial Data Starter Pack was designed to solve this exact problem: deliver a first version of your BI cockpit without an endless project or a major investment.
What is included in the Industrial Data Starter Pack
In 10 working days, we set up a first BI cockpit that is simple but robust, based on your real data. The pack includes:
Free pre-audit — 1 hour
A video call, or an on-site visit in the canton of Fribourg, to understand your context, systems and priorities.
🎯Goal: quickly determine whether the Starter Pack is suited to your situation.
Audit and scoping
Mapping of your systems, data exports and key processes: sales, production, inventory.
Together, we define 3 to 5 industrial indicators to highlight, such as available stock, orders, lead times, and similar metrics.
Data modeling and centralization
Implementation of a simplified data model by our Business Intelligence experts to bring together your Excel, ERP, MES, PLM and other data sources.
This becomes the foundation of your future BI platform.
Creation of your Power BI cockpit
A ready-to-use dashboard including:
- Executive overview: inventory, orders, sales, margins
- Simple filters: period, product family, customer
- Detailed views: order list, inventory by item, and similar views
Training and handover session — 2 hours
A video session, or an on-site session in the canton of Fribourg, to show you how to read, filter and use your cockpit.
You leave with an operational demonstration for your teams and management.
Recommendations for the next steps
A short action plan to go further: additional data flows to connect, automation, hosting, scaling and future extensions.
A real BI cockpit, not a PowerPoint presentation
With our Data Starter Pack, you get an operational dashboard:
- accessible to your management team and department heads
- based on your own data
- ready to be extended to other processes: maintenance, quality, finance, and more
You can finally answer simple questions without launching another Excel-file factory:
- What is my stock level by product family?
- Which customers and products generate the highest margins?
- How have sales evolved over the last 3 to 6 months?
🚨 Datavizin takes care of everything, from connecting to your data to training your teams.
❌ Before
Manual Excel reports, multiple versions of the truth, dependency on one key person who “knows how the file works”.
✅ After
One shared cockpit, automatically updated, understood by your teams.
BI software for SMEs, without a heavy IT project
Are you looking for BI software for SMEs to monitor your sales, inventory, orders, margins or production? Datavizin’s Data Starter Pack was designed to meet this need in a simple, concrete and progressive way.
Instead of delivering an empty tool that you have to configure yourself, we implement a first complete BI solution based on your real data. You get an operational Power BI cockpit, connected to your existing sources and structured around the indicators that truly matter to your business.
The goal is not to add yet another piece of software to your company. The goal is to give you a clear, reliable and shared view of your activity, without relying on scattered Excel files or reports manually rebuilt every week.
Why does an SME need BI software?
In many industrial SMEs, the data already exists. It is stored in the ERP, Excel files, accounting exports, production tools, logistics tracking files or internal SQL databases.
The problem is rarely a lack of data. The problem is that the data is scattered.
BI software helps consolidate, structure and transform this data into readable dashboards. For an SME, this makes it possible to:
- monitor key indicators without waiting until the end of the month
- compare sales, margins, inventory or orders in a single dashboard
- reduce repetitive Excel manipulation
- limit copy-paste errors and discrepancies between different versions of the same file
- share the same view of figures between management, finance, production and logistics
- make faster decisions with more reliable data
The Data Starter Pack addresses this need with a pragmatic approach: a limited scope, a short timeline, a clear budget and a first concrete result.
A BI solution designed for industrial SMEs
The Data Starter Pack is not an oversized BI platform reserved for large corporations. It is a solution designed for SMEs that want to start quickly, without hiring a data team or launching a complex IT project.
We start from your current systems: ERP, Excel files, CSV exports, databases, business applications or existing reports. Then we build a first data model and a Power BI cockpit focused on your priorities.
Depending on your situation, this first cockpit can cover:
- revenue monitoring
- margins by customer, product or product family
- open orders
- inventory levels
- procurement lead times
- production indicators
- gaps between forecasts and actuals
- the financial or operational indicators most used by your management team
You obtain a first version of your internal BI software, tailored to your company and your data.
Power BI, SQL Server and Datavizin support
The Data Starter Pack is based on a robust and well-known architecture: Power BI for visualization, SQL Server to structure data when needed, and automated data flows to reduce manual handling.
This approach offers an important advantage for SMEs: it remains scalable. You can start with a first simple cockpit, then gradually add new data sources, new indicators or new users.
Datavizin supports you across the entire chain:
- understanding your business needs
- identifying available data sources
- preparing and structuring data
- creating the Power BI cockpit
- training your teams
- recommending the next steps
You do not simply receive a dashboard. You receive a first structured foundation to manage your company with more reliable figures.
BI software for SMEs: start small, but start properly
For an SME, the main risk is not starting too small. The main risk is starting too broadly, with a project that is too theoretical, too long and too difficult to adopt.
The Data Starter Pack follows a different logic: start with a clear scope, produce a useful result, test the value with your teams, then expand only if the need is confirmed.
It is a simple entry point into Business Intelligence:
- a known budget
- a short timeline
- a concrete use case
- understandable indicators
- a solution that can evolve with your company
If you are looking for BI software for SMEs that can gradually replace manual Excel reporting, the Data Starter Pack is a realistic first step toward more reliable, faster and more structured management reporting.
Why entrust this project to Datavizin?
Specialist in industrial SMEs
Datavizin focuses on industrial SMEs in French-speaking Switzerland: production, logistics, maintenance and quality. We can work remotely or on site, depending on your preferred way of working.
We speak your language and understand your constraints: workshops, lead times, inventory, key customers.
Microsoft stack and Swiss infrastructure
We work with the Microsoft stack — SQL Server, Power BI, SSIS, SSAS — and compatible solutions, with a strong preference for hosting data in Switzerland.
🎯Goal: a reliable, long-term solution aligned with your requirements.
Pragmatic and progressive approach
No large theoretical project: we start small, with a concrete use case, then extend the applications step by step. At your pace, block by block.
You see value quickly, before committing to larger budgets.
The Data Starter Pack: a simple 3-step process
Step 1: free pre-audit — 1 hour
We review your current situation: systems, Excel files and needs. We verify whether the Starter Pack is suitable. If it is not, we provide honest recommendations, without billing you.
Step 2: audit and implementation
We work on site and remotely for the scoping phase, then we model your data and build your first BI cockpit.
Step 3: delivery and training
We present the cockpit to your team, train you on how to use it and discuss the next options: extensions, additional modules, automation and more.
Frequently asked questions
What if our data is poorly organized or incomplete?
That is precisely where our work begins: understanding where your data is located and how it can be structured.
The Starter Pack includes an audit and a modeling phase. If the data is truly too difficult to use, we will tell you quickly and adapt the mission.
How much time will our teams need to invest?
We need a few discussions with your teams — finance, production, IT — to understand your data. In general, this represents about half a day spread over several interviews.
Do we have to take a subscription afterwards?
The Data Starter Pack is configured to work with a database in the background. Our subscriptions give you automation and always up-to-date figures.
If you prefer, you can stop after the Starter Pack and not take a subscription. The Data Starter Pack is designed to be useful on its own and to give you a solid foundation, even without a subscription.
However, in that case, your BI report will not be shared with your colleagues and employees, and it will not be updated automatically.
What technology do you use?
Mainly the Microsoft BI stack, based on SQL Server, Power BI and standard connectors. But our architecture remains flexible, and we are committed to adapting our solutions to what you already have in place, without imposing a complete redesign.
Does our data remain in Switzerland?
Yes. We prioritize hosting in Switzerland, in a sovereign cloud, and we discuss security and compliance requirements with you from the pre-audit stage. If you are based in a country other than Switzerland, we prioritize local infrastructures with partners located in your country.
What happens if we do not have a modern ERP?
That is not a problem. We can start with your current tools — Excel, CSV, and similar sources — then consider medium-term improvements. We can also support you in choosing an ERP and direct you to one of our partners.
What is BI software for SMEs?
BI software for SMEs is a solution that centralizes, structures and visualizes company data in the form of dashboards. It helps managers and business leaders monitor key indicators: sales, margins, inventory, orders, production, finance or logistics.
Is Power BI suitable for SMEs?
Yes. Power BI is suitable for SMEs when it is integrated into a simple and well-scoped architecture. The most important factor is not only the tool itself, but the quality of the data, the choice of indicators and the ability of teams to use dashboards in their daily work.
Should Excel be replaced by BI software?
Not necessarily. Excel remains useful for one-off analyses. BI software becomes relevant when the same reporting tools are produced regularly, shared with several people or used to make important decisions.
How long does it take to implement a first BI solution?
With the Data Starter Pack, Datavizin implements a first BI cockpit in 10 working days, on a targeted scope. The goal is to quickly produce a useful first version, then gradually extend the solution if the need is confirmed.
Can a small SME use Business Intelligence?
Yes. An SME does not need a complex infrastructure to get started. It can begin with a few priority indicators, existing data and a simple first Power BI cockpit. The key is to start with a concrete use case.
Order the Data Starter Pack by Datavizin
Fill in the form: we will contact you within 48 working hours to schedule a video call or an on-site visit in the canton of Fribourg, and check together whether the Starter Pack is suited to your situation.
