Data analytics & BI consulting · Des Moines, Iowa

Where your data streams meet.

Prairie Metrics designs the pipelines, warehouses and Power BI dashboards that bring your numbers into one current — so sales, finance and operations stop arguing about whose report is right.

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ETL pipelines
Data warehouse design
Power BI dashboards

Confluence Sheet 01

Data sources
Business processes
Confluence

01 · The two streams

Two streams. One current.

Your numbers arrive from more than one direction — core systems, spreadsheets, exports and the people who run them. The work is making them meet in one place, under one definition.

Data sources

Sales, finance, operations, field systems — plus the spreadsheets holding it all together. We read your sources as they are today before proposing any change to them.

Business processes

Orders, quotes, fulfilment, cost and margin — how the work actually happens. That is what decides which questions your team needs answered on a Monday morning.

Where the two meet, a dashboard finally has something true to say.

Aerial view of two rivers converging — The confluence — two currents, one channel

Most teams we meet already have the data. What is missing is the meeting point: a warehouse with a settled shape, pipelines that keep it current, and a report where the same question gets the same answer twice.

02 · What we build

Each bend does one job well.

A river does not hurry, it routes. Four pieces of work carry your data from raw source to something a business can steer by.

01

ETL pipelines

Extract, transform, load — scheduled, monitored and re-runnable. When a source changes shape or a file arrives late, the pipe bends instead of breaking, and you can see where it went.

Scheduled & monitored

02

Data warehouse design

A stable place for your numbers to land, modelled around the questions you actually ask, with history kept so last quarter's figure still reads the same way next year.

Modelled for history

03

Data governance

Definitions written down, owners named, changes traceable. It is the quiet work that stops two reports from disagreeing in the same meeting.

Definitions & owners

04

Sales forecasting models

History, seasonality and pipeline turned into a range you can plan a quarter around — with the assumptions written beside it, not buried in a spreadsheet tab.

A range, not a guess

A person checking inventory levels on a handheld device on a warehouse floor — Where the numbers start — on the floor

Every stage is tested.

We flow-test as we build: does the pipeline finish on time, does the warehouse answer the question, does the forecast hold up against what actually shipped. If something leaks, you hear it from us first — not from a board pack.

03 · The reservoir

One reservoir everybody reads the same way.

The dashboard is where all of it settles: Power BI development on top of your own data, with KPI reporting written down so the numbers can be checked, questioned and trusted.

01Power BI dashboard development. Views built for the people who open them — a floor manager, a finance lead and an owner should not be squinting at the same screen.
02KPI reporting. The handful of measures that actually move the business, defined once and refreshed on a rhythm you can rely on.
03Measures you can audit. Every figure traceable back to the stream it came from, so a number can be defended, not just displayed.

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Analyst working at a desk with charts on two monitors — At work in the current — building and checking the view

04 · The free dashboard audit

Start where the streams meet.

Tell us which report you have stopped trusting. We will come back with a free dashboard audit: where the flow is clean, where it leaks, and what we would fix first.

01

We look at the source.

A short conversation about where your numbers come from, who touches them, and which report people actually open.

02

We follow the flow.

Where data is copied by hand, where it waits, where it gets re-keyed, and where two teams quietly keep two versions of the truth.

03

We take soundings.

We trace a handful of the figures you rely on most back to their source and check they mean what everyone assumes they mean.

04

You get a written read.

Findings, what we would fix first, and what it would take — yours to use, whether or not you work with us.

A small team reviewing charts on a wall screen, seen from behind — Reading the current together — a working session

A review of the sources and reports you already run.
A written summary of the flow, with the gaps named plainly.
A suggested order of work — smallest first, no rebuild required.