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Power BI consulting in the UAE, priced before the work starts

Oakwood Group builds Power BI dashboards, data models and Excel reporting automation for organisations across Dubai and the UAE, delivered remotely in partnership with Roar Data, an Australian Power BI consultancy. Engagements start with a fixed-fee reporting diagnostic, credited back in full against the build if you proceed within 30 days. Everything after it is quoted as a fixed price in writing before any work starts.

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What Oakwood Group does as a Power BI consultancy

Oakwood Group is a Power BI and data analytics consultancy serving organisations across Dubai and the UAE. Delivery runs in partnership with Roar Data, an Australian Power BI consultancy.

Oakwood Group builds Power BI dashboards and the data models underneath them, connecting the finance system, the spreadsheets and the other tools a business already runs so reporting refreshes on its own instead of being assembled by hand.

Oakwood Group rebuilds Power BI that has become slow, fragile or no longer trusted, and reconciles KPI definitions that disagree between finance, operations and leadership.

Oakwood Group automates Excel reporting, so month-end packs and board packs stop depending on one analyst and one undocumented process.

Oakwood Group trains internal teams on their own reports - Power BI Desktop, DAX, data modelling and workspace governance - so the reporting can be maintained after handover.

Oakwood Group builds in Power BI, and in Microsoft Fabric where data volume or refresh frequency calls for it, inside your own Microsoft tenant and on licences you already hold. It is a reporting practice rather than a software vendor.

Serving Dubai, Abu Dhabi and the wider Emirates remotely — in partnership with Roar Data (Australia).

What Oakwood Group builds

Executive, financial and operational Power BI dashboards

Data models that join ERP, CRM, payroll and spreadsheet data into one reporting layer

Rebuilds of Power BI reports that have become slow, fragile or hard to maintain

KPI definitions agreed once and held across finance, operations and leadership

Excel reporting automation, replacing manual month-end and board pack assembly

Power BI training on your own reports: Desktop, DAX, data modelling and governance

Ongoing managed support, refresh monitoring and performance tuning

Row-level security and workspace governance inside your own Microsoft tenant

Working remotely

Working with a remote delivery team from Dubai or anywhere in the UAE

The question is rarely whether reporting can be built remotely - it is what, if anything, has to happen in a room. Almost none of this work does. Power BI reporting is built against your source systems and delivered into your own Microsoft tenant, so where the consultant sits matters far less than whether they can get a supported, scheduled extract out of the systems you run. The part that genuinely benefits from a room is the definitions conversation, and that runs perfectly well on Teams with the right four people in it.

Discovery, definition workshops and reviews run over Teams, on your calendar

Reporting delivered into your own Microsoft tenant and workspaces

The UAE runs on Gulf Standard Time (UTC+4) all year and the delivery team, based in Australia, works to it: a UAE morning is an Australian afternoon, so sessions land inside both working days, with no daylight saving on either side

Available 7am to 7pm Gulf Standard Time, seven days

What a Power BI consultant costs in the UAE

Four things make up the total. One is a fixed diagnostic fee, one is quoted in writing before work starts, one is Microsoft's, and one is yours.

Few firms in this market put their pricing structure in writing, which makes the first conversation an estimate of an estimate. Oakwood Group publishes the structure of the cost: a fixed-fee diagnostic, then a build quoted as a fixed price before any work starts. Where your build lands depends on things nobody can see from outside your organisation - how many systems have to be joined, how clean the data is when it comes out of them, and how much history you want loaded. That is what the diagnostic establishes, before you have committed to a build.

Reporting diagnostic: A fixed fee, the same starting point for every engagement. A written action plan for your reporting. Credited back in full against the build if you proceed within 30 days.
The build: Quoted as a fixed price in writing before any work starts, with the scope it covers written next to it. Any change to the agreed scope is quoted as a fixed price of its own before it is done.
Power BI licensing: Paid to Microsoft directly, at their published rates. Most organisations already hold what they need inside Microsoft 365.
Your time: The definitions conversation, and access to the systems the reporting pulls from. This is the part nobody can do for you.

How to choose a Power BI consultant

Four questions that predict how an engagement goes, whoever you end up hiring.

Ask about the data model, not the dashboard

A dashboard is a week of work on a good data model and a permanent argument on a bad one. What predicts the engagement is what happens underneath: how the sources are joined, where the business logic lives, and what happens when someone adds a new site or a new product line. Ask how a model was structured, not how a report looked.

Ask who owns the tenant, the workspace and the model

Reporting that lives in a consultant's tenant, or behind a layer you cannot open, is a dependency you did not agree to buy. Ask where the reports will sit, who administers the workspace, and whether you could hand the model to someone else tomorrow.

Ask for the number before the work, not after

Time and materials moves the risk of a bad estimate onto you. A fixed price quoted before work starts moves it back. Ask what happens if the data turns out messier than it looked, and whether that changes the number you were quoted.

Ask what happens after handover

Reporting decays when nobody internal is left able to change it. Ask what the handover includes, whether the team is trained on their own reports, and what a small change costs six months later.

Where Oakwood Group works

Oakwood Group serves Dubai and the UAE. Delivery to the Emirates is remote, in partnership with Roar Data, an Australian Power BI consultancy — which is how most Power BI work is done regardless of where the consultant sits.

There are dedicated pages for each market: Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, UAE.

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Common questions

Is Oakwood Group a Power BI consultancy that works across the UAE?

Yes. Oakwood Group builds Power BI dashboards, data models and Excel reporting automation for organisations across Dubai and the UAE, delivered remotely in partnership with Roar Data, an Australian Power BI consultancy. Dubai is the focus market; Abu Dhabi, Sharjah and the other Emirates are served the same way - remotely, which is how most Power BI work is done in any case.

What does a Power BI consultant cost in the UAE?

Oakwood Group publishes the structure of the cost rather than an hourly rate: every engagement starts with a fixed-fee reporting diagnostic, credited back in full against the build if you proceed within 30 days, and the build itself is quoted as a fixed price in writing before any work starts. Where a build lands depends on how many systems have to be joined and how clean the data is when it comes out of them - which is what the diagnostic establishes. Power BI licensing is paid to Microsoft separately, at their published rates.

Do you work with organisations in Abu Dhabi and the other Emirates?

Yes. Dubai is the focus market, and business intelligence consulting for Abu Dhabi, Sharjah and the rest of the Emirates runs exactly the same way. Power BI reporting is built against your source systems and delivered into your own Microsoft tenant, so the work runs remotely without much changing. Definition workshops run on Teams, which is where they run for most clients regardless of location.

We already have Power BI and it is not working. Is that the same conversation?

Often, and the diagnostic is where that call gets made. Power BI that has grown messy - slow refreshes, measures nobody can explain, numbers that disagree between two reports - is common, and the fix is usually in the data model rather than the dashboards on top of it. The diagnostic establishes whether the existing build is worth repairing or worth replacing, before you have committed to either.

Who owns the reports once the work is finished?

You do. Reporting is built inside your own Microsoft tenant and your own workspaces, not held in ours. You can hand the model to another consultant, or to your own team, without asking us for anything. Training on your own reports is available if you want the team to maintain it themselves.

How does an engagement start?

With the fixed-fee reporting diagnostic. We look at the systems the reporting has to pull from, what is reportable now, and what needs work first, and you get a written action plan. The fee is credited back in full against the build if you proceed within 30 days. If you would rather talk first, the 15-minute call is free.

Ask about Power BI consulting

Tell us where your reporting is slow, manual or hard to trust, and which systems it has to pull from. We reply within one business day - a practical conversation about your numbers, not a sales pitch.

See what to fix first, before you commit to a build

Book the reporting diagnostic and get a written action plan for your data - a fixed fee, credited back in full if you proceed with the build within 30 days.

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