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Meet FRATCH Experts who have recently used Business Intelligence
Alwin G.
Last position:
IT Interim Manager & AI Strategist
- Founder of CheironX: AI-supported GRC management (ISO 27001, BSI IT-Grundschutz, TISAX, DORA)
- Strategic focus on Agentic AI and GenAI for modern IT Governance, Risk & Compliance Management
- IT interim management and strategic consulting
Amit S.
Last position:
IT Project Manager – SAP S/4 HANA Delivery Consultant at CHG Meridian UK Limited
- Managed the integrated SAP S/4HANA delivery plan for 12 BTS workstreams, including milestone, dependency, and governance management.
- Coordinated end-to-end delivery across Business, IT, and Operations, focusing on execution, readiness, and issue resolution.
- Responsible for RAID, test, cutover, and deployment management to ensure a successful go-live.
- Implemented KPI tracking, status reporting, and PMO governance to provide transparent management of performance, risks, and escalations.
William N.
Last position:
Power BI Solutions Architect/Engineer & AI Consultant at AVERDUNG GmbH
- Redesign of the company's BI infrastructure: replacement of a fragmented landscape of manually maintained Excel solutions and CSV imports with a centralized Power BI environment featuring a unified data model as the company-wide single source of truth
- Consolidation of previously isolated reporting logic into a central semantic model – eliminating redundant files, manual data transfers, and inconsistent metrics between departments
- Forecasting & planning: Design and implementation of company-wide liquidity planning in Power BI – from business logic to a fully automated, data-source-driven planning model replacing the previous manual Excel process; enables rolling forecasts and continuously up-to-date cash flow transparency for management
- Optimization of existing Power BI dashboards in terms of performance, structure, and analytical value using an AI-native approach
- Analysis and improvement of the data model, including data quality analyses, data cleansing, and consistent modeling using star schema, DAX, and Power Query
- Incident & anomaly analysis: Identification, investigation, and explanation of data anomalies, including root-cause analysis and concrete recommendations for action
- AI solution architecture: Connecting Business Central and Power BI to LangDock via MCP (Model Context Protocol) for AI-supported data usage
- Creation of a historical data layer as a basis for trend and time-series analyses
- AI-supported automation: Design and development of AI skills, agents, loops, and processes for the automated analysis and interpretation of reports
- Automated reporting workflow: Setup of scheduled, automated email distribution of AI-generated analyses and recommendations to stakeholders
- Gathering and documentation of business requirements and coordination with business departments and IT as part of requirements engineering / product owner activities
- Breaking down overall requirements into clearly defined work packages and tasks
- Definition, prioritization, and management of milestones throughout the entire project lifecycle
Tools: POWER BI, M365, Copilot Studio, MIRO, Microsoft Business Central, Microsoft Fabric, Claude AI, ChatGPT, LangDock, MS VS Code
Kossi A.
Last position:
Project Manager at Deutsche Bank
Migration of an existing application to a new IT infrastructure.
- Managed all project activities (infrastructure, applications, data, security, architecture)
- Planned complex network architectures with security requirements
- Designed and coordinated firewall configurations
- Planned and managed interfaces between ERP, cloud, and third-party systems
- Coordinated middleware solutions (e.g. SAP Integration Suite, MuleSoft, Boomi)
- Defined data flows, mapping rules, and integration architectures
- Managed data migrations and master data harmonization
- Coordinated with business departments, IT teams, service providers, and external partners
- Team size: International team of 35 employees – Germany | Poland | India | USA
- Languages: English
Tools: Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project), Brainloop, Jira, Confluence, MS SharePoint
Hannah K.
Last position:
Lecturer in AI Fundamentals for the Digital Workplace at grandedu
- Lecturer in AZAV-certified, one-month training programs on AI fundamentals and practical application, with several sessions since February 2026
- Designed and delivered all modules for participants from a range of professional backgrounds
- Teaching how generative AI works, its areas of application and limitations, as well as practical prompting and evaluation
- Created all teaching materials and exercises independently
- Supported participants throughout the entire course period
Onur K.
Last position:
Project Manager & Outsourcing Manager at SENEC GmbH (EnBW Group)
- Built a scalable nearshore IT developer hub (Croatia, Czech Republic, Poland) as an independent company through a BOT model (Build – Operate – Transfer)
- Identified, selected, and managed full-service agencies; introduced management and control mechanisms, including KPIs, SLAs, and regular service reviews
- Prepared and reviewed data processing agreements and framework contracts in coordination with Legal & Compliance; integrated regulatory requirements (including KRITIS) into process design
- Advised on cloud vs. on-premise strategies, data storage, and authorization concepts; supported Procurement with tendering and service provider evaluations
- Managed change and process harmonization between internal teams and nearshore partners; reported to executive management, CFO, and CIO
Result: Scalable IT developer hub with an audit-ready governance model, reduced operating costs, and accelerated product development.
Tobias M.
Last position:
Power BI Expert at MID-SIZED TRADING COMPANY FOR CLEANING TECHNOLOGY AND HYGIENE PRODUCTS
Reporting and controlling using Power BI for a production ERP system
- Analysis of ERP data and interfaces for use in Power BI dashboards
- Evaluation and migration of existing reports (e.g. Excel) to Power BI
- Development of an authorization concept for selective data access
- Documentation and training on the use and customization of Power BI dashboards
Label: Power BI, Excel, SelectLine ERP, Microsoft SQL, SQL Server Management Studio
Jörg K.
Last position:
Exec. Coach / Consultant / Agilist at HASOMED GmbH
Repaired a broken “ScrumBan” process, then established a pure Kanban system; increased output in the Kanban flow by 22% within four weeks
Increased team autonomy and decision-making ability by implementing new decision strategies; resulting in up to 25% better outcomes
Redesigned retrospectives (including one-to-one coaching and workshops), which led to consistent implementation of the resulting action items
Intensive coaching of Product Owners (POs) to develop and support “Empowered Teams”, alongside leadership development to place agile frameworks and methods in a realistic context (“de-illusioning”)
Supported change management processes to promote an agile company culture among management and teams, improving internal communication to increase transparency and effectiveness in agile processes
Wolfgang O.
Last position:
Project Manager at EnBW - Netze Südwest
- New development and further development of the existing MS Dynamics CRM
IT systems: Microsoft Dynamics Customer Service, SharePoint, DevOps, SAP IS-U
- CRM implementation / further development
- Taking over from the previous service provider
- Business process analysis
- Agile project organization
- Business analysis / requirements engineering with AI support
- Use of AI in development
- Analysis of master data processes
- CRM customer data management
- Requirements documentation
- Stakeholder management
- Workshop moderation
Stefan O.
Last position:
Founder at ProtocolEngine.io
Evidence-led health intelligence platform turning published research into personal health protocols. It scores 430 habits, foods, and supplements against the studies behind them, and moves the score when the evidence moves. Built solo.
- Built the daily ingestion pipeline across PubMed, bioRxiv, and medRxiv: 43,000+ papers from 3,400+ journals processed into 230,000+ typed evidence claims, each one traceable back to the study it came from.
- Designed the six-factor evidence scoring model and the public changelog behind it, so no recommendation ever appears without the papers underneath it. 23,000+ grade changes recorded and explained to date.
- Shipped an entity information model connecting every intervention to its mechanisms, biomarkers, and outcomes: 118 biomarkers with region-specific reference ranges, 77 mechanisms, 32 graded outcomes.
- Built the personalisation layer: blood panel ingestion that reads lab PDFs with a vision model and corrects results for draw time against the user's wake anchor, plus Oura, WHOOP, and Withings integration for daily readiness context.
- Operate eleven specialised review agents over the corpus and codebase, covering paper curation, retrieval quality, health-claim compliance across EU and US regimes, and security.
- Shipped the Evidence Assistant, a RAG assistant that answers from the claim database and cites the underlying papers, plus a B2B practitioner tier, an Expo React Native app, and localisation across 3 languages and 7 markets.
Stack: Next.js 16, TypeScript, Supabase, pgvector, Anthropic Claude, Vercel, DeepInfra.
Tobias W.
Last position:
CEO & Fouder at Wittbix
Christian F.
Last position:
Architecture Management at Agency
Expert in the company's architecture management area
Support for standardizing the company's IT landscape
Further development of architecture management
Shaping the company's business architecture
Restructuring, administration and maintenance of all IT assets
Support in creating a unified software asset management and CMDB
Creation of unified document management (e-file)
Transition of documents into a central DMS structure
Link between architecture management and the department's internal business process management
Support in developing strategic and tactical development plans
Organizing communication with key stakeholders
Support in the conception, organization and coordination of the architecture office to be built up
Accompanying and advising the entire architecture management process
Advising the company's business units on architectural topics and their framework conditions
MS Office, Windows 10, VBA
ITIL, TOGAF, PowerBi, Kanban, Scrum
Internal agency tools
Open Touch Conversation, Webex, wire, bdbos
MS Sharepoint, JIRA, Confluence
ARIS, Archimate, BPMN
Fred S.
Last position:
Owner / Senior Consultant at Schröder Consultants UG
- Conclusion of partner agreements with OnePlan (portfolio management) and ForProject/EVMS (project controlling); ongoing qualification and implementation of both tools.
- Project management for the relaunch of [link] with a new focus on integrated PM/PPM toolchains.
- Development and implementation of approx. 60 PM standard methods (PMSP, CMSP, QMSP) according to ICB4 & PMBoK8 as a database application on MS Power Automate / M365 / MS Project, with a planned cloud launch in 2025.
- Deployment and cut-over standard process defined as Quality Gate QG07: go-live plan, cut-over plan, communication package, production launch, smoke test in production, hypercare team, incident and SLA management, confirmation of production stability and operational handover.
- Development of a classification and retrieval system (TOC) for ChatGPT projects to enable immediate cross-application object activation.
Tools: LinkedIn, Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Infinity, MS Copilot, OnePlan, EVMS/ForProject, Power Automate, SQL DB, O365, MS Project, MS Cloud, ICB4, PMBoK7, M365, Teams
Florian R.
Last position:
Global Programme Lead, Ecosystem Separation at Merck Group
Electronics – Surface Solutions | Carve-out of IT, data and system landscape*
Separation of a full business division's IT, data and system landscape following divestment; centrally governed investment envelope in the three-digit m€ range
Laboratory notebook and laboratory analytics platform stream: Palantir Foundry, Snowflake, Signals Notebook, Power BI and connected laboratory instrumentation; site transition completed without interruption to laboratory operations
Decision authority and escalation point for business, IT infrastructure, IT security and vendors; separation executed across globally distributed users and systems, handed over on schedule
Isabella S.
Last position:
Founder & Consultant at ISA ADVISE
- Independent consulting at the intersection of HR, Finance and IT
- Focus on People Analytics, HR Controlling, Pay Transparency, Compensation & Benefits and HR Transformation
- Analysis of complex HR and business data and development of reliable decision-making foundations for management and HR
- Design of KPI, reporting and BI solutions as well as data-based management models
- Consulting from analysis and concept development through implementation of transformation and optimization projects
- Focus on SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP BW and Power BI
- ISA = Insight · Structure · Alignment
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Statistics of experts using Business Intelligence
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
19 years

Position duration
3 years

Positions per freelancer
11

Top business areas
Information Technology, Business Intelligence, Project Management

Top industries
Information Technology, Professional Services, Manufacturing

Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Business Intelligence
Bachelor's degree or higher
93%
Master's degree or higher
67%
Doctorate
8%

Certifications per freelancer
3

Most common languages
German, English, French

Speak two or more languages
98%
Based on our profile pool as of 26 Sep 2026.
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Average rates of experts using Business Intelligence
Rates are based on recent contracts and do not include FRATCH margin.
The average daily rate is the mean of all daily rates from recent contracts of comparable freelancers on our platform.
The median daily rate is the middle value of all daily rates — half of comparable freelancers charge less, half charge more. Unlike the average, it is barely affected by outliers.
Calculated based on our freelancers’ daily rates as of 26 Sep 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
Business Intelligence experts industry focus
See which industries our matched freelancers work in most often — every figure is calculated live from the freelancers on FRATCH.
- Information Technology (74%)
- Professional Services (57%)
- Manufacturing (44%)
- Banking and Finance (39%)
- Automotive (38%)
- Retail (34%)
- Education (27%)
- Energy (26%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
What Business Intelligence covers
Business Intelligence, often shortened to BI, turns operational data into information that teams can use. It combines data integration, modeling, analysis, reporting and visualization to show what is happening across a business. BI solutions support decisions in finance, sales, marketing, supply chain, operations and customer service.
What it helps build
A strong BI setup can bring together data from enterprise software, databases, spreadsheets, APIs and cloud services. Typical deliverables include:
- Executive dashboards with clear performance indicators
- Sales, finance and marketing reporting
- Analytical data models and semantic layers
- Self-service reporting for business teams
- Forecasting and operational monitoring views
Tools and technical skills
BI specialists work across an ecosystem that may include Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Looker, Qlik and Amazon QuickSight. They often use SQL, Python, dbt, Azure or AWS data services, and warehouses such as Snowflake, BigQuery and Microsoft Fabric. Their work also involves data quality rules, access controls, documentation and performance tuning.
When companies need specialists
Companies often bring in freelance BI expertise when reports are inconsistent, teams rely on manual spreadsheets or leaders cannot trust the numbers they see. Specialists can assess existing sources, define shared metrics and replace fragile reporting processes. They are also useful during ERP or CRM changes, warehouse migrations, mergers and new analytics initiatives.
What strong professionals deliver
Effective BI professionals connect business questions to a practical data design. They clarify metric definitions, trace data back to its source and build dashboards that support real decisions rather than display unnecessary charts. They also explain trade-offs clearly, test results with stakeholders and leave behind maintainable models and documentation.
How to choose the right fit
Look for evidence of work with data sources, warehouse architecture and the reporting tools used in your environment. Ask how the specialist handles data validation, row-level security, refresh failures and changing requirements. A good fit understands both technical dependencies and the daily workflow of the people who will use the reports, whether collaboration is remote or on site.
Frequently asked questions
Everything clients usually want to know about Business Intelligence, in one place.
Business Intelligence is used to turn data from business systems into reports, dashboards and analysis. It helps teams monitor performance, find trends, investigate issues and make decisions from consistent information rather than disconnected spreadsheets.
BI usually focuses on trusted reporting, historical analysis and operational decision support. Data analytics can include broader investigation, while data science often addresses prediction, experimentation and machine learning; the boundaries depend on the company and project.
A strong Business Intelligence specialist usually combines SQL, data modeling and dashboard design with knowledge of warehouses, ETL or ELT workflows and data governance. Familiarity with finance, sales or operations processes can be just as important as tool expertise.
The right level depends on the scope, data quality and number of systems involved. A focused dashboard may need a specialist who can model a small set of sources, while an enterprise BI program calls for experience with warehouse design, security, governance and stakeholder alignment.
Business Intelligence work is often suitable for remote collaboration because specialists can access cloud data environments and review dashboards online. On-site workshops may still help when requirements are unclear, sensitive data access is restricted or many teams must agree on shared metrics.
Review examples that show clear metric definitions, reliable data models and dashboards designed for specific decisions. Ask how the specialist tests data, manages refresh problems, documents the solution and measures whether users can act on the resulting reports.
Power BI is a Microsoft toolset used to create reports, dashboards and data models; it is not the whole BI discipline. Business Intelligence also includes source integration, warehouse strategy, governance, metric design and the processes that make reporting trustworthy.
A BI assignment may involve more than building visuals. Clarify the source systems, refresh needs, security rules, ownership of metrics, target users and expected handover, then confirm whether the work includes data preparation, modeling, documentation or training.
The average hourly rate of freelancers who have used Business Intelligence in their recent projects is 107 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 853 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers who have used Business Intelligence in their recent projects, 93% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 67% hold at least a Master's degree, and 8% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers who have used Business Intelligence in their recent projects have 19 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 3 years.
The most common languages among freelancers who have used Business Intelligence in their recent projects are German (99%), English (97%), and French (21%).
The most common industries among freelancers who have used Business Intelligence in their recent projects are Information Technology (74%), Professional Services (57%), and Manufacturing (44%).
The most common business areas among freelancers who have used Business Intelligence in their recent projects are Information Technology (82%), Business Intelligence (78%), and Project Management (72%).
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