Our Power BI Consulting Services for Pharmaceutical Companies
Power BI is a business intelligence and data visualization tool that allows you to connect to various sources of data, analyse them, and create interactive reports and dashboards. Power BI can help the pharmaceutical industry transform their operations and meet customer demands by providing them with actionable insights into their performance, inventory, customers, employees, and competitors
We are a Power BI Consultancy for Pharmaceutical and Healthcare companies who want to take control of their data.
We provide the following:
End-to-end Power BI projects from start to finish
Managed service - choose the best SLA for your goals
Training for your BI and finance teams
Features of Power BI that are useful for Pharmaceutical Companies
Data connectors:
Power BI can connect to hundreds of data sources, such as SQL Server, Azure, Salesforce, Google Analytics, Excel and more. This allows pharmaceutical sellers, manufacturers and distributors to access and combine data from various platforms and systems, such as ERP systems, production or planning systems to get a holistic view of their business and supply chain.
Dashboards:
Power BI can create stunning and interactive dashboards that display key metrics and indicators for sales, plans and labour utilisation. This allows pharmaceutical companies to customize and share their dashboards with their teams and stakeholders, and access them from any device.
Reports:
Power BI can generate detailed and insightful reports that drill down into the data and reveal the underlying patterns and trends. Pharmaceutical companies can use reports to answer specific questions, explore scenarios, and compare outcomes. They can also apply filters, slicers, and bookmarks to their reports to focus on the relevant data.
Semantic models:
Power BI can build semantic models (datasets) that define the relationships and calculations among the data elements. Semantic models enable retailers to create consistent and accurate measures and calculations across their data sources, and use them in their dashboards and reports.
Q&A:
Power BI can answer natural language queries from the users, and provide visual and textual responses. Q&A allows pharmaceutical companies to ask questions about their data in their own words, and get instant answers without writing any code or formula
Benefits of Power BI for the Pharmaceutical Companies
Faster and better decision making:
Power BI can help pharmaceutical companies make data-driven decisions in real time, based on the latest and most accurate information. Power BI can also provide predictive analytics and what-if scenarios, to help pharmaceutical companies anticipate future outcomes and plan accordingly.
Increased efficiency:
Power BI can help pharmaceutical companies to optimize their operations and resources, by identifying and eliminating bottlenecks, improving quality, and inefficiencies. Power BI can also help pharmaceutical companies increase their performance, by finding new ways to analyse the current status quo. This allows companies to enhancing their performance performance.
Analyse the Supply Chain:
Power BI can help pharmaceutical companies understand the supply chain. Power BI is a great tool to understand the latest position of products and materials in relation to the overall supply chain. This more than critical as pharmaceutical companies review materials, and products across there a complex supply chain.
Reduced costs:
Power BI can help pharmaceutical companies reduce their costs, by allowing companies to understand the many costs associated with production. Analysis of production costs as well as supply chains waste.
Our experience in the Pharmaceutical Industry
David Laws has 5 years experience in Pharmaceutical Industry
David studied Engineering, Science and Technology at Loughborough University and then continued to study and gain vocational consultancy experience at the University of Cambridge on the Advanced Course of Design Manufacture and Management. David’s early career was mainly in Leadership roles in FMCG manufacturing company’s. These roles focussed on days and shift management of teams in the production of food, drink and pharmaceuticals.
These roles involved responsibility for the short term and long term targets and strategy, as well as managing the day to day operation of teams of 30 to 120 staff. This involved interaction across the businesses in order to meet the and develop the departments KPI’s. Whilst at Boots and Catalent pharmaceuticals he was in regular contact with QP’s (Qualified Person) to ensure materials were available and products released.
During this time David was involved in numerous projects. David used his technical and project management skills to drive process improvements in large organisations including Boots, Kerry Foods and Catalent. These projects included day to day implementation of continuous improvements methodology’s, as well as major engineering capital projects, labour saving and quality improvements.
David transitioned into data analysis and MI reporting roles. His initial role was supporting the retail and dental departments in 3M with their Excel point of sale (POS) reporting. To improve performance data availability and department performance saw him learn and develop ETL and database software skills. Data was presented in Excel 2013 (the prequel to Power BI), allowing details analysis of POS as well as manufactured gate sales related to dental products.
David has since worked ingesting data, turning this into actional insights and improving business performance. These contract roles have seen him supporting in cross section of industries, including Energy, FinTech and casual dining.
Since moving to Select Distinct in 2022 David has worked with a number of clients across a range of industries.
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Power BI for Pharmaceutical Companies: Frequently Asked Questions
Why should a pharmaceutical company hire a Power BI expert?
The pharmaceutical industry operates under strict regulatory frameworks where data accuracy is non-negotiable. A Power BI expert ensures that complex data from R&D, clinical trials, and supply chains is unified into a single, validated source of truth, reducing the risk of manual reporting errors and speeding up time-to-insight.
What does your Power BI consultancy offer the life sciences sector?
Our consultancy provides specialized data strategies that prioritize compliance and security. We build automated reporting suites that track drug development milestones, monitor batch quality, and provide executive-level overviews of global commercial performance while maintaining the highest levels of data governance.
Can Power BI assist with clinical trial monitoring and patient data?
Yes. We build secure Power BI dashboards that allow for real-time monitoring of clinical trial recruitment, patient retention, and adverse event reporting. By visualizing this data, a Power BI expert helps study managers identify bottlenecks or safety signals much earlier than traditional spreadsheet-based methods.
How do you ensure data integrity and GxP compliance in Power BI?
As a specialist consultancy, we understand the importance of ALCOA+ principles. We implement robust version control, automated data refresh audits, and Row-Level Security (RLS) to ensure that your Power BI environment supports regulatory compliance and remains "audit-ready" at all times.
Does Power BI integrate with lab management and ERP systems?
Absolutely. We have extensive experience connecting Power BI to LIMS (Laboratory Information Management Systems), ERPs, and specialized clinical data warehouses. Our goal is to eliminate data silos, ensuring that your scientists and stakeholders have seamless access to the insights they need to drive innovation.