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Meet FRATCH Experts who have recently used Microsoft Power BI
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 using a unified data model as the company-wide single source of truth
- Consolidation of previously isolated reporting logic in a central semantic model – elimination of redundant files, manual data transfers and inconsistent metrics across 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; enabling 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 specific recommendations for action
- AI Solution Architecture: Connecting Business Central and Power BI to LangDock via MCP (Model Context Protocol) for AI-supported data usage
- Development 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 delivery 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
André G.
Last position:
Financial Reporting Consultant at Client anonymized (services sector)
Financial reporting as an MVP. Follow-up assignment.
- Reports on profit and loss, balance sheet and cash flow
- Budget and personnel metrics (FTE)
- Implementation as an MVP with a fixed scope
Jörg K.
Last position:
Exec. Coach / Consultant / Agilist at HASOMED GmbH
Fixed a broken “ScrumBan” process, then established a pure Kanban system; increased output in the Kanban flow by 22 % in four weeks
Increased team autonomy and decision-making ability by implementing new decision-making strategies, resulting in up to 25 % better outcomes
Redesigned retrospectives (including through one-on-one coaching and workshops), leading to consistent implementation of the resulting action items
Intensive coaching of Product Owners (POs) to develop and promote “Empowered Teams,” alongside leadership development to provide a realistic perspective (“disillusionment”) on agile frameworks and methods
Supported change management processes to promote an agile company culture among management and teams, while improving internal communication to increase transparency and effectiveness in agile processes
Tobias S W.
Last position:
CEO & Fouder at Wittbix
Sven L.
Last position:
Project Controller at Iqony
- Acting as project controller for the STEAM sub-project within Iqony's long-term modernisation programme for an industrial water demineralisation plant at the BP refinery site in Gelsenkirchen-Scholven alongside the parallel WATER sub-project
- Managing cost control, SAP PS data integrity and project tracking in a challenging data environment
Dany-Armand D.
Last position:
Senior Data Scientist at ibg NDT GmbH
- Investigate the relationship between Eddy Current Testing (ECT) signals and microstructural properties
- Detect latent patterns in ECT data that reflect intrinsic material characteristics
- Develop and validate predictive models for microstructural classification and quantification, using hardness and case depth as benchmarks
- Apply Bayesian Structural Equation Modeling for advanced data analysis
Hannah K.
Last position:
Instructor, AI Fundamentals for the Digital Workplace at grandedu
- Instructor for an AZAV-certified AI training program for working professionals; designed in February 2026, with five cohorts each running for one month from March 2026
- Designed and created all modules and learning materials
- Topics: AI fundamentals, prompting, use cases in communication, analysis, and processes, agents and workflows, the EU AI Act, and GDPR
- Taught small groups of 3 to 9 participants from different professional fields and levels of seniority
- Provided individual learning support throughout each course
- Result: completed five cohorts with around 500 hours of live instruction
Carl-Friedrich L.
Last position:
Rollout Project Manager / Multi-project Management / Project Lead / Program Manager at GlasfaserPlus
Project content / Description of services:
Management and coordination of all new-build areas in the assigned region to ensure completion on time
Responsibility for network planning, budget calculation, and budget approval for optimal resource planning in the construction process
Cross-project management of service providers for the efficient implementation of joint construction or connection of new-build areas
Preparation, tendering, and awarding of contracts within budget limits
Ensuring material supply for smooth joint construction
Management of fiber-optic expansion and provision of data lines; densification
Stakeholder management
Introduction and setup of Kanban board, including maintenance
End-to-end rollout management
Escalation management
Service provider management
Construction monitoring and management of construction schedules
Preparation and tracking of project plans and Gantt charts
Risk management
Claim management and project recalculations
Problem and incident management
Change management
Capex and Opex control and monitoring
Contract management and change order management
Conclusion of lease, purchase, or rental agreements for the development of required properties or lines
Technical collaboration with construction managers and service providers within the construction projects to ensure the timely completion of new-build areas
Definition of requirements, categorization, and prioritization, including monitoring and follow-up in accordance with the project plan
Preparation and delivery of presentations for various management levels
Preparation and creation of decision papers
Forecast
Establishment of project “back to green” post-installation and densification
Environment: MS Office, MS Teams, SAP; SharePoint, Jira, Confluence, Bizagi. GBGS, PowerBI, TKI, Flash Kanban
Jörg T.
Last position:
Consultant, Requirements Engineer and Database Expert
Project – Evaluation and development of databases for a new product line for a measuring equipment manufacturer
- Current-state analysis
- Requirements analysis of the data storage layer
- Writing benchmark tests
- Design of the new database schema
- Database migrations
- Development of audit logging and Part11
- Creation of backup and recovery concepts
- Design of the persistence layer API
- Writing unit tests
- Creating requirements in Azure
Tools: C#, Visual Studio 2022, Azure DevOps, SonarQube, Git, RestSharp, WebServer, PostgreSQL, MS SQL, SQLite, MinIO, Podman, Docker, DataGrip, SQL Management Studio, HeidiDB, pgAdmin
Martin M.
Last position:
Requirements Engineer at MCM Modern Engineering UG HB
- Analyze the current process
- Develop the target processes
- Support implementation of improvements in an SAP-enabled program
- Simplify customer contact
- Streamline internal processes through automated, real-time checks for relevance to complaints
- Create use cases
Florian R.
Last position:
Global Program Lead, Post-Acquisition Integration at [Client confidential]
Medical technology – Digital Technology | Medical imaging
- Integrated the acquired platform into clinical medical imaging processes, with an investment volume in the low double-digit m€ range
- Ensured interoperability of systems and processes across hospitals and outpatient facilities while customer operations continued; HL7, DICOM, Amazon S3 & Redshift, SharePoint, JIRA
- Led the programme across functions with product, technology and service teams, including cost control, synergy tracking and identification of further AI use cases in medical imaging
Fadi S.
Last position:
Data Scientist at E-Commerce
- Designed and developed a production-ready data platform based on Microsoft Fabric for an e-commerce company
- Built a scalable Medallion Architecture (Bronze, Silver, Gold) with Lakehouse and Delta Lake as the foundation for analytics and AI applications
- Developed a metadata-driven ETL platform with PySpark and a generic Incremental Loading Framework (SQL Server → Bronze → Silver → Gold)
- Developed reusable components for Microsoft Fabric Notebooks to standardize data integration, transformation, and validation
- Implemented automated data pipelines including monitoring, logging, error handling, and Delta MERGE strategies for stable production operations
- Built a business layer architecture for reporting, data warehousing, and reusable data products
- Integrated heterogeneous data sources via SQL Server, REST APIs, Amazon SP API, and Google Analytics 4
- Worked closely with business departments to analyze business requirements and translate them into scalable data architectures
Technologies: Microsoft Fabric, PySpark, Python, SQL Server, Delta Lake, Lakehouse, OneLake, Data Factory, Data Warehouse, REST APIs, Amazon SP-API, Google Analytics 4
Loic N.
Last position:
Senior System Engineer at AG Solution
- Create and lead roadmap forecasting of support opportunities, including colleague training, process design and improvement, and new hire onboarding.
- Collaborate seamlessly with cross-functional teams including Professional Services, Support, Product, Sales, and Solution Engineering.
- Manage business and financial KPIs in alignment with overall business objectives.
- Industrial IT & Data Integration: Implement, configure, and integrate OT/IT systems and data flows, connecting control-layer sources (DCS, PLC, SCADA) to historians, data platforms, and enterprise systems through APIs and standard interfaces.
- AVEVA PI & Historian: Configure, maintain, and extend AVEVA PI (PI Data Archive, Asset Framework, interfaces/connectors) to capture, contextualize, and serve real-time and historical operational data.
- Alarm Management: Support and optimize alarm management systems – e.g. Honeywell Alarm Management – including alarm rationalization, classification, and the analysis of alarm performance, critical alarms, and alarm floods.
- Connectivity & Protocols: Set up and troubleshoot industrial connectivity using OPC UA and OPC A&E, including the configuration of tunnelers / wrappers to bridge OT data sources securely and reliably.
- Production Data Flow: Ensure seamless, secure, and well-structured data flow across the industrial IT landscape, transforming raw operational data into meaningful information for operations and decision-making.
- System Support & Troubleshooting: Provide ongoing support for OT/IT applications, troubleshooting issues across networks, software, and data integrations to keep systems running efficiently.
- Knowledge Management & Best Practices: Contribute to internal documentation, best practices, and troubleshooting guides, and help continuously improve how we deliver industrial IT and data solutions.
Tools & Software: Aveva PI, Salesforce, Active Directory, Microsoft Dynamics 365, Jira, Microsoft, Scrum, DevOps, Docker, CI/CD, Jenkins, GitHub.
Michael S.
Last position:
Data Analyst, Data Scientist at CompuGroup Medical Deutschland AG, docmetric GmbH
Development of AI and traditional models to analyze medical and patient data, including medication analyses, diagnosis analyses, forecasts, procedure analyses, dosage analyses, comorbidity analyses, prescription analyses, patient potential analyses, referral profile analyses, and prescription analyses. Analyses in the field of Real World Evidence.
Healthcare IT, pharmaceutical industry
Tasks, responsibilities:
- Gathering customer requirements
- Planning the subproject
- Designing and defining KPIs
- Designing and developing models and visualizations of results using customer dashboards
- Developing and implementing data warehouse adaptations
- Deriving recommendations for action
Methods, technologies:
- Simulation
- Artificial intelligence
- Python
- R
- SQL
- Microsoft Power BI
- Amazon Web Services
- Elasticsearch
- PostgreSQL
- Databricks
- Multivariate statistics
Christian F.
Last position:
Project Lead & Cyber Security Consultant at Deutsche Börse Gruppe
- Established a cyber resilience framework for AI-accelerated threats in the Frontier AI Threat Endurance (FATE) program: capability assessments, maturity assessments and gap analyses covering cyber security, operational resilience, incident response, recovery and governance, followed by target concepts and improvement measures
- Supported action owners from specification through implementation: implementation roadmaps, decision papers, management presentations and governance reporting, as well as audit- and supervision-ready documentation; managed stakeholders from IT, Information Security, Risk Management, Operational Resilience, Business Continuity and the business units
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Statistics of experts using Microsoft Power BI
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
17 years
Position duration
2.8 years
Positions per freelancer
10
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
95%
Master's degree or higher
71%
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 5 Nov 2026.
Daily rate distribution
The chart shows how the daily rates of experts in this technology are distributed, based on recent contracts on our platform. Each bar covers a rate range — its height shows the share of experts charging within that range.
Average rates of experts using Microsoft Power BI
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 5 Nov 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
Microsoft Power BI 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 (71%)
- Professional Services (56%)
- Manufacturing (45%)
- Banking and Finance (39%)
- Automotive (38%)
- Retail (32%)
- Education (29%)
- Healthcare (27%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
Business intelligence with Power BI
Microsoft Power BI is a business intelligence suite for connecting data, preparing it for analysis and presenting it through interactive reports. Companies use Power BI Desktop, the Power BI service and mobile apps to turn operational data into dashboards that support finance, sales, marketing, supply chain and management decisions.
Reports and data models
Power BI specialists build dashboards that combine data from SQL Server, Excel, SharePoint, cloud applications and APIs. They design semantic models, relationships and measures so users can explore consistent metrics instead of relying on disconnected spreadsheets. Strong work covers both visual clarity and trustworthy data logic.
Core ecosystem and skills
The work often includes DAX for calculations, Power Query and M for data transformation, and SQL for source queries. Specialists may also connect Power BI with Microsoft Fabric, Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Data Lake Storage, Analysis Services and Excel. Knowledge of row-level security, gateways, workspaces and deployment pipelines supports controlled delivery.
Typical project needs
- Create executive dashboards from multiple business systems
- Replace manual Excel reporting with governed Power BI content
- Build reusable data models and certified datasets
- Improve slow reports, complex DAX or refresh failures
- Set up workspace structures, permissions and release processes
Companies usually bring in freelance Power BI expertise when reporting must be delivered quickly, internal data skills are limited or an existing implementation has become difficult to maintain. A specialist can also support a migration from legacy reporting tools or establish standards for a growing analytics environment.
Delivery and collaboration
Power BI projects can be delivered remotely when data access, requirements and review routines are well defined. On-site collaboration can help when reporting depends on workshops with finance, operations or regional teams. Clear documentation, shared definitions and attention to language, time zones and stakeholder terminology help reports gain adoption across the business.
What strong specialists deliver
Strong professionals clarify the business question before choosing a visual or measure. They validate source data, keep DAX readable, design models for performance and apply security deliberately rather than as an afterthought. They also explain their decisions, test refresh and filter behavior, document ownership and leave teams able to extend the solution safely.
Frequently asked questions
Before you brief your next project: the most common questions about Microsoft Power BI.
Microsoft Power BI is used to connect data sources, transform information and publish interactive reports and dashboards. Companies use it for financial analysis, sales tracking, operational monitoring, forecasting and self-service business intelligence.
Power BI is often chosen by organizations already invested in Microsoft 365, Azure, Excel or SQL Server. Tableau and Qlik Sense are also strong analytics tools, so the right choice depends on data architecture, governance, visualization needs, user skills and existing licensing decisions.
A strong Power BI specialist often works with SQL, data warehousing, Excel, Azure services and Microsoft Fabric. Useful adjacent skills include DAX, Power Query, dimensional modeling, data governance, row-level security and stakeholder workshop facilitation.
The right Power BI experience depends on the project scope, data quality and security requirements, not on a fixed number of years. A simple dashboard may need focused reporting expertise, while an enterprise rollout calls for proven skills in modeling, governance, deployment and performance tuning.
Power BI work is commonly suitable for remote collaboration when the specialist can access approved data sources and business contacts. Regular reviews, documented metric definitions and secure access procedures are important, especially when reports use sensitive financial, customer or operational data.
Ask a Power BI freelancer to explain how they approach source validation, model design, DAX testing, refresh reliability and access control. Review anonymized examples, discuss trade-offs in a sample reporting scenario and check whether they document the solution for future owners.
Power BI can support complex environments when the underlying model, refresh strategy and capacity are designed carefully. A specialist should be able to discuss star schemas, incremental refresh, aggregation strategies, query folding, gateway setup and the division of work between Power BI and the data platform.
A Power BI freelancer may deliver requirements documentation, cleaned queries, semantic models, DAX measures, report pages, dashboards and deployment guidance. Depending on the engagement, they may also provide training, governance rules, performance improvements and documentation for ongoing maintenance.
The average hourly rate of freelancers who have used Microsoft Power BI in their recent projects is 101 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 806 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers who have used Microsoft Power BI in their recent projects, 95% hold at least a Bachelor's degree, 71% hold at least a Master's degree, and 8% hold a doctorate.
On average, freelancers who have used Microsoft Power BI in their recent projects have 17 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2.8 years.
The most common languages among freelancers who have used Microsoft Power BI in their recent projects are German (98%), English (98%), and French (20%).
The most common industries among freelancers who have used Microsoft Power BI in their recent projects are Information Technology (71%), Professional Services (56%), and Manufacturing (45%).
The most common business areas among freelancers who have used Microsoft Power BI in their recent projects are Information Technology (81%), Business Intelligence (78%), and Project Management (70%).
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