See how the client overcame fragmented financial reporting using a custom Power BI solution.
The client, a prominent hypermarket retail chain operating across multiple regions in UAE, faced significant challenges in their financial reporting process. Although they had an ERP system in place, key financial reports were still being generated using multiple Excel files and third-party tools. This fragmented approach led to data inconsistencies and manual errors, along with the finance team spending more time preparing reports rather than analyzing them. The lack of an integrated reporting solution made it difficult for leadership to track financial performance across locations.
The client’s financial reporting process was slow, manual, and error-prone, relying heavily on Excel and third-party tools. With a wide array of products, and data intensive operations, they needed a single, interactive platform to deliver real-time financial insights and support faster decision-making. Recognizing this, Difinity Digital stepped in to develop and deploy a custom Power BI reporting solution that centralized all the financial data and visualized the entire performance metrics in one place.
Although the client used an ERP system, their financial reporting was slow and disorganized. Important reports like the P&L and Balance Sheet were built using many Excel files and other tools, causing data errors and a lot of manual work. The finance team spent too much time making reports instead of analyzing them. What the management urgently needed—and the major challenge we had to deal with—was setting up a centralized view of critical KPIs across different stores and time periods.
We implemented a custom Power BI solution that replaced manual, Excel-based reporting, with a single interactive platform. Pulling data directly from the ERP and Excel sources, the solution provided real-time P&L and Balance Sheet views, month-wise and year-wise performance tracking, and interactive filters for deep analysis by store, region, or category. Completed in just four weeks, the implementation also included end-user training sessions to ensure smooth adoption across finance and leadership teams.
“Our goal was to bring the entire financial data across the hypermarket retail chain into a single, interactive platfrom. We helped the client combine their complex and data-intensive financial operations across regions in one place by implementing a Power BI reporting solution. Seeing the client’s positive transformation in just four weeks highlights the power of tailored BI solutions.”
Manu George Michael, Director, Difinity Digital
–from Execution Team