Power BI consulting in Australia, priced before the work starts
Roar Data builds Power BI dashboards, data models and Excel reporting automation for organisations across Australia, from Brisbane. Engagements start with a $1,950 reporting diagnostic, including GST, 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.
What Roar Data does as a Power BI consultancy
Roar Data is a Power BI and reporting consultancy based in Brisbane, working with organisations across Australia.
Roar Data 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.
Roar Data rebuilds Power BI that has become slow, fragile or no longer trusted, and reconciles KPI definitions that disagree between finance, operations and leadership.
Roar Data automates Excel reporting, so month-end packs and board packs stop depending on one analyst and one undocumented process.
Roar Data trains internal teams on their own reports - Power BI Desktop, DAX, data modelling and workspace governance - so the reporting can be maintained after handover.
It is a reporting practice rather than a software vendor: the work is delivered inside your own Microsoft tenant, on licences you already hold.
What Roar Data builds
What that looked like in one engagement
A Queensland manufacturer of around 250 staff. Month-end reporting took five days; it now takes one. The reports that were assembled by hand for two hours before each morning meeting are live and refresh on their own, so the meeting opens on what to do about the numbers rather than on producing them.
Working with a Brisbane consultancy from anywhere in Australia
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.
What a Power BI consultant costs in Australia
Four things make up the total. One is a published fixed price, one is quoted in writing before work starts, one is Microsoft's, and one is yours.
Few firms in this market publish a number, which makes the first conversation an estimate of an estimate. Roar Data publishes the structure of the cost and the floors that do not move: focused builds start at $3,250 and full transformations from $10,000, always fixed-price and always including GST. Where your build lands between those 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
- $1,950 including GST, 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. Focused builds from $3,250, full transformations from $10,000, including GST.
- 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
Ask who owns the tenant, the workspace and the model
Ask for the number before the work, not after
Ask what happens after handover
Where Roar Data works
Roar Data is based in Brisbane and works with organisations across Australia. Brisbane is the home market and the one where we are most often in the room. Everything else is delivered remotely, which is how most Power BI work is done regardless of where the consultant sits.
There are dedicated pages for the markets we are asked about most often: Adelaide , Ballarat, Bendigo, Brisbane, Cairns, Canberra, Darwin, Geelong, Gold Coast, Hobart, Launceston, Melbourne, Newcastle, Perth, Sunshine Coast, Sydney, Toowoomba, Townsville, Wollongong, Queensland.
Common questions
Is Roar Data a Power BI consultancy that works across Australia?
What does a Power BI consultant cost in Australia?
Do you work with organisations outside Queensland?
We already have Power BI and it is not working. Is that the same conversation?
Who owns the reports once the work is finished?
How does an engagement start?
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 - $1,950 including GST, credited back in full if you proceed with the build within 30 days.