Our business intelligence services connect the numbers you already have (Excel, your accounting system, your CRM) into clear dashboards your whole team can read on any device. So Monday meetings start with answers, not with "hang on, let me check the spreadsheet".
NETCONFIG builds Microsoft Power BI dashboards that pull your sales, finance, stock and operations data into one secure, up-to-date view. We connect your data sources, design dashboards around the questions you actually ask, train your team and keep everything running inside your Microsoft 365 environment, for businesses across South Africa.
Someone spends half a morning copying numbers into a report that's out of date by lunchtime.
Sales has one number, finance has another, and the meeting turns into a maths debate.
You only find out a month went sideways once the month is over.
Big decisions get made on instinct because the facts are too hard to find.
Business intelligence (BI) simply means turning the data you already collect into clear pictures you can act on. Here's what that looks like with us:
"Who owes us money?" "Which products are slowing down?" We start with your questions, not with fancy charts.
Excel, SharePoint, databases and business systems all in one place.
Scheduled refreshes mean no more copy-and-paste. Open the dashboard and it's already up to date.
Sales sees sales, managers see their branch, and payroll stays private. Access is set up inside your Microsoft 365.
Short, friendly sessions so your team can filter, drill down and ask better questions. See our user adoption training.
New report needed? Something stopped refreshing? You call the same team.
Think of it as the one screen you open to see how things are going, without asking anyone to "pull a report".
Tell us what you wish you knew each week. Bring the spreadsheet you're tired of rebuilding.
We check where your numbers live, how tidy they are, and which Power BI licences you already have.
We build one useful dashboard first, then improve it with your feedback.
We train your team, keep refreshes healthy and add new reports as your questions grow.
Specialist data firms are great at data-engineering projects. If you'd rather have one team that already knows your systems, that's us. Power BI doesn't have to be a huge project either: start with one dashboard and grow from there.
Power BI lives alongside your Teams, SharePoint and Excel, the same environment we support every day through our managed IT services and cloud solutions.
Dashboards are only useful if the data behind them is safe. Our cyber security and data protection teams have your back.
No finger-pointing between your IT company and your report builder.
We explain things the way you'd explain them to a friend, and we're happy to answer the "silly" questions. They're rarely silly.
Business intelligence (BI) means pulling the numbers you already have, from accounting, sales, stock or support systems, into one place and showing them as simple, up-to-date dashboards. Instead of building a spreadsheet every Monday, you open one screen and see what's happening and what needs attention.
Power BI is Microsoft's tool for building interactive reports and dashboards. It connects to sources like Excel, business systems and databases, refreshes the numbers automatically, and works in a browser, in Microsoft Teams and on your phone.
Building reports in Power BI Desktop is free. To share dashboards, each person viewing them usually needs a Power BI Pro licence. Microsoft's Power BI pricing update set Pro at USD 14 per user per month from 1 April 2025 (up from USD 10). Some Microsoft 365 plans already include it, so we check what you have before you buy anything.
Your dashboards live inside your own Microsoft 365 environment instead of spreadsheets emailed around. We set up who can see what, so personal information is only visible to the people who need it. We'll help you think through POPIA when personal information is involved, and your information officer stays responsible for compliance.
It depends mostly on how tidy your data is. After the free data chat, we give you a clear plan and timeline before any work starts.
It can, with the right setup. Copilot in Power BI helps create report pages and summarise what the numbers are saying. Microsoft's Copilot for Power BI overview says it needs a paid Fabric capacity (F2 or higher) or Power BI Premium (P1 or higher), and a Pro licence on its own isn't enough. We'll tell you honestly whether it's worth it for your business.
Not at all. Excel is often where we start. Power BI can read your existing spreadsheets, so nothing is wasted. You just stop rebuilding the same report every week.
No. Our head office is at 28 Essex Terrace, Westville, Durban, and our dedicated technicians support businesses throughout South Africa. Most dashboard work happens online over Microsoft Teams anyway.
Day-to-day IT, looked after properly.
Tidy data in, better dashboards out.
Backups for the data your dashboards rely on.
Microsoft 365 and Azure, set up right.
Industry dashboards: finance and insurance, logistics and warehousing, manufacturing and hospitality.
Bring a spreadsheet you're tired of rebuilding. We'll chat about what it could look like as a dashboard, with no pressure and no jargon.
