From Lagging to Leading: How Smarter Data Can Help Close NZ’s Productivity Gap
New Zealand's productivity gap is a long-standing problem. Here's the role business intelligence can play in closing it, one business at a time.
Business intelligence consultancy · Wellington, NZ
Your data's future is here.
We help businesses across New Zealand and Australia make better decisions with their data, designing, building, improving and auditing Power BI and Microsoft Fabric solutions.
From a raw spreadsheet to a live dashboard.
Common challenges
Where reporting usually breaks down
These are the problems we hear most often from small and medium-sized businesses, and from larger organisations with environments that have grown without a plan.
Manual reporting
Hours lost copying data between spreadsheets to build the same reports.
Numbers that don’t match
Different reports give different answers for the same measure.
Slow reports
Reports and refreshes so slow that people stop trusting or using them.
Unclear access
Little visibility of who can see sensitive data.
Silent failures
Refresh or pipeline failures that go unnoticed until someone spots the wrong figures.
AI uncertainty
Wanting to use AI, but unsure whether your data is ready.
Services
How we help
Every engagement starts by matching your need to one or more of our services, from a single report to a full environment review.
Reporting and KPIs
Define the measures that matter, then build reporting and models people trust.
Migration and integration
Bring disconnected systems and legacy reports together on the Microsoft data platform.
Audit, optimisation and monitoring
Keep an existing Power BI or Fabric environment healthy, secure and cost-effective.
Capability and AI
Prepare your data for AI tools and build the skills to look after what you have.
Why Precision BI
Practical solutions, delivered by the person who designs them.
Commercially focused
Solutions are shaped by your business outcomes and budget, not by technology for its own sake. Every recommendation traces back to a business benefit.
Founder-led
You deal directly with the person designing your solution, from the first conversation through to delivery.
AI-enabled practice
We use AI throughout our own practice. For you, that means faster delivery and consistent quality.
Scoped before we start
Every engagement is scoped, sized and signed off before any work begins, so you know what you are getting.
Visibility through Precision OS
Every engagement is managed in Precision OS, our project system, and its client portal gives you clear visibility of your project.
One point of accountability
When a project needs specialist data engineers, we bring them in and manage them. You still deal with one team.
I highly recommend Dasha and Precision BI to any business looking to optimise operations, gain a competitive edge, and turn raw data into a strategic advantage. Their expertise, innovation, and customer-first approach make them an invaluable asset in today’s fast-paced business world.
Core platforms
Built on the Microsoft data platform
We work mainly within the Microsoft ecosystem, so your reporting builds on tools you may already own and pay for.
Power BI
Our primary platform for reporting, data modelling and analytics.
Microsoft Fabric
A unified analytics platform covering lakehouses, warehouses, dataflows and pipelines.
Excel
Analysis and modelling, and often the starting point for a move to Power BI.
Power Automate
Workflow automation, alerts, report distribution and monitoring.
About Precision BI
A founder-led specialist practice.
Precision BI was established in Wellington in 2024 and is led by founder Dasha Fothergill. We work mainly with small and medium-sized enterprises, and occasionally with larger organisations that need a specialist for a defined piece of work.
Our aim is simple: help businesses get more value from the data and BI tools they already have, and make that data more accessible, reliable, efficient and useful.
Insights
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Let's talk about your data.
Book a one-hour consultation. We'll look at how you report today and match your needs to the right service.