
Business Intelligence Experts in Germany
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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
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
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
Hannah K.
Last position:
Lecturer in AI Basic Skills for the Digital Workplace at grandedu
- Lecturer in an AZAV-certified, one-month training program on AI basics and practical application
- Design and delivery of modules for participants from different professional fields
- Teaching how generative AI works, where it can be used, and where its limits are, as well as prompting and evaluation practice
- Creating training materials and exercise formats
- Trainer qualification according to AEVO
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
Bruno P.
Last position:
Product Owner
Design and implementation of a „unified-commerce“ platform for SMEs to sell and deliver multi-product bundles
Achievements: On-time design, delivery and customer acceptance of a 100% functional, CPQ-based „buy flow“ process for configuring and selling multi-product bundles within the specified time frame of 90 days. Successfully tested integration of various interface services for: customer search, enrichment of customer data, address validation, service qualification, phone number validation, credit check, appointment selection and Quote-to-Order transition.
Responsibilities:
- Strategic goal implementation: Derivation and implementation of strategic customer goals (e.g. release content, business value).
- Backlog Management: Creation and elaboration of backlog items (Initiatives, Epics, User Stories, Defects) in close coordination with the project team and customer.
- Prioritization & Releases: Responsibility for prioritizing the Product Backlog and implementing defined release goals.
- Deliverable Tracking: Tracking work results on the supplier and customer side.
- Roadmap & Release planning: Development and implementation of roadmaps and release plans together with the customer.
- Scope responsibility: Responsibility for the contractually agreed scope of services.
- Claim Management: Active claim and change management towards the customer.
- Team coordination: Management and coordination of the development team.
- Use of synergies: Use of synergies between customer projects and product development.
- Proposal preparation: Preparation of proposals (with supervision) and presentation on site to customers and partners.
Skills: Development, communication and implementation of product visions; Product Backlog Management; Stakeholder Management; Regular reporting to management and Steering Committees; Requirements analysis & engineering; Planning and documentation of workshops; Professional leadership and coordination of (distributed) project teams and external service providers; Epic Management; User Story specifications; Creation of use cases, support with software testing and User Acceptance Testing (UAT); Release Management and Sprint Planning; Design of TO-BE processes; Process optimization; Planning, design and specification of interfaces to existing and new systems; Identification, assessment and management of project risks; Active claim and change management; Facilitation of sprint planning and reviews; Data migration; Scrum; Kanban; REST API; JSON; XML; BPMN; UML; Jira; Confluence
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Statistics of experts using Business Intelligence
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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
9%

Certifications per freelancer
3

Most common languages
German, English, French

Speak two or more languages
98%
Based on our profile pool as of 19 Sep 2026.
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Calculated based on our freelancers’ daily rates as of 19 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 (58%)
- Manufacturing (44%)
- Banking and Finance (40%)
- Automotive (38%)
- Retail (34%)
- Education (27%)
- Energy (26%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
Turning data into decisions
Business Intelligence, often called BI, combines data integration, analysis and visual reporting to support better business decisions. It brings information from systems such as ERP, CRM, finance and commerce tools into trusted dashboards, reports and planning views. Companies use it to monitor performance, identify trends and act on operational changes.
Typical deliverables
- Executive dashboards for revenue, costs, margins and operational performance
- Self-service reporting for sales, finance, marketing and supply chain teams
- Data models that connect transactional and analytical sources
- Forecasting, budgeting and scenario analysis for planning decisions
- Automated reporting with clear ownership, definitions and refresh rules
BI specialists shape raw records into useful information. Their work may cover requirements gathering, KPI design, data cleansing, semantic modelling, visualisation and user training. Strong deliverables make figures easy to interpret without hiding assumptions or data quality limits.
Tools and foundations
The ecosystem includes Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Qlik, Looker and reporting features within major cloud services. SQL remains central for querying and validating data, while Python or R can support advanced analysis. Specialists may also work with Azure Synapse, Snowflake, BigQuery, dbt, Microsoft Fabric and established data warehouses.
When companies need help
- A reporting landscape has grown across disconnected spreadsheets and tools
- Leaders need consistent KPIs across departments or regions
- A migration to cloud analytics requires a practical delivery plan
- Internal teams need support with a new dashboard or semantic model
- Data governance, access controls or documentation need strengthening
Freelance expertise is useful when a project has a defined outcome but limited internal capacity. In Germany, specialists may collaborate remotely or on site with business teams, data owners and IT; clear communication in English or German can matter for workshops and adoption.
What strong specialists bring
Experienced professionals connect business questions with technical design. They challenge vague metrics, trace figures back to source systems and document transformations so reports can be maintained. They also understand permissions, row-level security, performance, accessibility and the difference between a useful visual and a decorative one.
Choosing the right fit
Assess a specialist through relevant examples, not tool names alone. Ask how they handled source-system inconsistencies, KPI disagreements, refresh failures and stakeholder feedback. A strong professional can explain modelling choices plainly, validate results with users and leave behind a solution that teams can operate confidently.
Frequently asked questions
Everything clients usually want to know about Business Intelligence, in one place.
Business Intelligence is used to turn data from operational systems into dashboards, reports and analysis for better decisions. Companies apply it to performance management, financial planning, sales analysis, inventory control, customer insight and operational monitoring.
Business Intelligence usually focuses on trusted reporting, historical analysis and decision support, while data science often explores prediction, experimentation and advanced modelling. The two areas overlap, especially when BI teams add forecasting or machine learning outputs to business dashboards.
A strong Business Intelligence specialist typically works confidently with SQL, data modelling and at least one major visualisation tool such as Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Qlik or Looker. Depending on the project, useful adjacent skills include cloud warehouses, dbt, Python, data governance and API-based data integration.
The right level of Business Intelligence experience depends on the scope, data quality and number of stakeholders involved. A focused dashboard may need a visualisation specialist, while a company-wide reporting programme calls for someone who can design models, governance, security and adoption processes.
Business Intelligence work is often suitable for remote collaboration because data models, documentation and dashboards can be reviewed online. On-site workshops in Germany may still help when specialists need to map processes, resolve KPI definitions or work closely with business owners.
Business Intelligence benefits from adjacent skills in data engineering, finance, process analysis, UX and information security. Knowledge of master data, access management and change enablement can be just as important as visualisation when reports must become part of daily work.
Review how a Business Intelligence specialist defines metrics, validates source data and handles conflicting stakeholder needs. Ask for a clear explanation of the data model, refresh approach, security design and documentation, rather than judging quality by dashboard appearance alone.
Business Intelligence includes reporting and analytics but usually connects them with data preparation, modelling, governance and distribution. Reporting may present established results, while BI also helps users explore causes, compare performance and support planning decisions.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Germany who have used Business Intelligence in their recent projects is 107 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 856 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Germany 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 9% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers in Germany 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 in Germany who have used Business Intelligence in their recent projects are German (99%), English (97%), and French (22%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Germany who have used Business Intelligence in their recent projects are Information Technology (74%), Professional Services (58%), and Manufacturing (44%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Germany who have used Business Intelligence in their recent projects are Information Technology (82%), Business Intelligence (78%), and Project Management (72%).
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