Data-to-Dashboard Is Built for Your Technology Stack
Choose where to run your product: cloud, hybrid, or on-premises, with no restrictions. Data-to-Dashboard is a fully tech-agnostic solution: we adapt it to the systems you already run.
Data-to-Dashboard
Your manufacturing data,
converted to insights within 4 weeks.
Connect fragmented business data into a self-service dashboard built around the way your company measures performance. Add optional predictive or conversational analytics layers to answer deeper questions.
Siloed Systems Create Reporting Gaps
Your ERP tracks production. Your CRM holds customer data. Finance runs reports in spreadsheets. Operations uses another dashboard entirely.
So when someone asks a simple question: What’s slowing production? Which products are losing margin? Where is inventory getting stuck? The answer often takes hours of exports, reconciliations, and manual checks. Those costs cut into your profit margins.
85% of business leaders
lost money to decisions made on outdated data
43% of leaders
call data quality their top problem to fix
90% of businesses
risk falling behind without real-time visibility
Faster Access To Insights
Off-the-shelf BI rollout takes several months and a dedicated engineer. Data-to-Dashboard gives you access to the first dashboard in 4 weeks, subject to source access, data quality, and agreed scope.
Track Metrics That Matter
Design your view around numbers that matter to you. Every dashboard is fit with your definitions of production, margin, quality, and inventory.
Give Every Role The Right View
Enjoy a selection of role-specific views with appropriate confidentiality controls. Minimize compliance issues around privacy and security risks.
Own Your Decision Intelligence
Run the analytics in your environment with full ownership over the system. Provide people with self-service access to data they need without complex querying.
Faster Access To Insights
Off-the-shelf BI rollout takes several months and a dedicated engineer. Data-to-Dashboard gives you access to the first dashboard in 4 weeks, subject to source access, data quality, and agreed scope.
Track Metrics That Matter
Design your view around numbers that matter to you. Every dashboard is fit with your definitions of production, margin, quality, and inventory.
Give Every Role The Right View
Enjoy a selection of role-specific views with appropriate confidentiality controls. Minimize compliance issues around privacy and security risks.
Own Your Decision Intelligence
Run the analytics in your environment with full ownership over the system. Provide people with self-service access to data they need without complex querying.
Problems Solved With Data-to-Dashboard
Overreliance on spreadsheets for production planning
Sales and production data silos across internal and external systems
Limited visibility into downtime and production bottlenecks
Forecasting based on outdated sales and inventory data
Poor visibility into product, batch, or SKU profitability
Limited traceability across batches, lots, and finished goods
Difficulties with matching material availability to production requirements
Manual tracking of supplier and distributor delays
WHAT YOU OWN
WHAT IT GIVES YOU
Source code + documentation
Lower exit risk
Connectors + custom data models
Greater scalability & flexibility
Infrastructure configuration
Data sovereignty
Permissions + access controls
Stronger governance & simpler compliance
No platform subscription
Predictable long-term costs
See Our Data Engineering in Action
A look at how we build data platforms for clients. The same engineering runs Data-to-Dashboard.
How It Works
Data-to-Dashboard combines architecture assessment, data integration, and dashboard delivery in one service.
Our four-stage implementation approach
01
Scope definition
We agree on the business questions, metrics, data sources, users, and delivery priorities before development begins.
02
Environment assessment
Our team reviews your current architecture, data source quality, access constraints, reporting logic, and infrastructure requirements.
03
Data pipeline development
Selected data gets cleansed and transformed for analytics. We build custom connectors and pipelines to support new data flows.
04
Dashboard delivery
Dashboard with role-specific views and selected reporting features is deployed in your environment with proper access and security controls.
Implementation Scope
Each engagement is shaped around a defined decision area, reporting need, or operational priority.
Business metric selection and alignment
Data-source assessment
Pipeline design and implementation
Deployment infrastructure setup
Permissions and access controls
Documentation and training
Data architecture audit
Data preparation and cleansing
Standard or custom connectors
Dashboard development
Deployment and handover
Natural-language data access
Advanced data exports
Data migration
Predictive analytics
Additional data domains
Ad hoc managed support work
Want to see it in practice? We’ll show a working dashboard built around the metrics you track.
Decide What Your First Dashboard Should Answer
Start with the questions your teams need answered, rather than the limits of a prebuilt BI view. Combine data from any relevant domain and build views around the metrics your teams need the most.
Metrics manufacturers can collect with Data-to-Dashboard:
Operations Performance
- OEE and downtime
- Throughput and cycle time
- Scrap, yield, and rework
- Maintenance performance
- Energy consumption per unit
Finance and Profitability
- Standard versus actual cost
- Product or SKU profitability
- Customer contribution margin
- Plant and material variance
- Working capital and inventory days
Sales and Commercial Insights
- Revenue, volume, price, and mix
- Order intake and backlog
- Customer or channel margin
- Discount leakage
- Forecast accuracy
Supply Chain Performance
- Inventory availability
- Supplier performance
- OTIF and fill rate
- Shelf-life or obsolescence risk
- Logistics cost and plan adherence
Scale To New Use Cases
Add deeper analytics on the same foundation. Extend your environment with conversational access to data, predictive models, automated alerts, or AI-ready data preparation as your reporting needs evolve.
Conversational analytics
Predictive modeling
Automated alerts
AI-ready data foundation
More Control Than a SaaS BI Platform.
Deeper Support Than Ad-hoc Data Consulting
Get the flexibility of custom analytics without an open-ended consulting engagement or a permanent platform subscription. Data-to-Dashboard gives you a defined implementation, faster delivery, and full ownership of the deployed solution.
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Data-to-Dashboard
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Managed analytics platforms
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Traditional BI consultancies
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| Deployment |
Your infrastructure
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Vendor-hosted
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Depends on engagement
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| Reporting experience |
Your metrics and logic
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Standard data model
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Custom, often open-ended
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| Data model flexibility |
Any reporting views your data supports
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Constrained by predefined schemas
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Flexible, scope-dependent
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| Time to first value |
4 to 6 weeks
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8 to 16 weeks
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4 to 12 weeks
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| Scalability |
On-demand work packages
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Subscription expansion
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Additional phases
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| Handover |
Full handover included
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Vendor keeps the platform
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Varies by contract
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| Advanced analytics path |
ML and chat on the same foundation
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Depends on roadmap and tier
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Separate projects
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| Exit flexibility |
You own everything
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Complex migration out
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Depends on contract terms
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| Best starting point |
One bounded decision area
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Standardized use cases
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Broad transformation programs
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See Data-to-Dashboard in Action
Is Data-to-Dashboard
The Right Fit for My Business?
Data-to-Dashboard is built for mid-sized manufacturers that need faster answers from existing systems, without adding another rigid analytics platform.
You are a strong fit if you:
- Operate across several systems, sites, teams, or data sources
- Depend on Excel or manual exports for recurring reporting
- Struggle to align KPI definitions across departments
- Want custom analytics without adopting another managed SaaS platform
- Prefer deployment in your own cloud or on-premise environment
- Can identify one decision area with clear operating value
Typical starting environments
- ERP, CRM, and finance tools
- Multiple sales intelligence and order platforms
- Production, quality, maintenance, or inventory systems
- POS, eCommerce, or order-management platforms
- TMS, WMS, fleet, or delivery system
What to expect before implementation:
- If a standard SaaS connector already covers your reporting, Data-to-Dashboard may be more than you need
- Messy or scattered data sources may need a preparation stage first. We assess this during discovery
- An undefined decision area gets scoped together before the build starts
Drop Us a Line
About Your Project
Submit the form or write to us directly. Within one business day you’ll hear from someone who works on Data-to-Dashboard implementations. Tell us which decision area you’d start with, and we’ll come back with questions worth discussing.
Write an email
engagement@edvantis.com
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FAQs about Data-to-Dashboard
Will it be compatible with our existing ERP, MES, BI tool, or custom system?
Yes. We design each Data-to-Dashboard to slot with your existing stack, using standard or custom connectors where needed. Plus, we help with data transformation to ensure proper data loading and correct rendering on analytics dashboards.
What if our data is messy or incomplete?
No problems. We always run a data audit first to assess the data quality. Then clean, transform, and prepare the sources needed for the agreed dashboard scope before development moves ahead.
Can we add new data domains, forecasting, or predictive analytics later?
Absolutely. The scope of the first deployment is focused on one use case, so you get value faster. But the same foundation can be extended later with new data sources, additional dashboards for extra roles or plant sites, forecasting, predictive models, alerts, or conversational analytics.
How customizable are the metrics and dashboard views?
The metrics and views are for you to select. We create each dashboard around your metric definitions, reporting logic, user roles, and decision needs rather than forcing you into a fixed data model.
What happens after the first dashboard goes live?
We’ll demo the product to you and provide user training if needed. From there, you can keep the first scope as-is or expand it. Additional data domains, dashboards, forecasting, predictive models, and conversational analytics can be added through follow-on work packages.
How is Data-to-Dashboard different from Power BI or Tableau?
Power BI and Tableau are BI tools: someone still has to connect the data, model it, and build the reporting on top. Data-to-Dashboard is that work, productized. We connect your data, apply your business logic, build the reporting layer, deploy it in your environment, and hand over the finished solution. Most of the value is in the data foundation underneath, so if you already use Power BI or another BI tool, we can build the foundation and deliver the dashboards in it.
How is the engagement different from a traditional BI consultancy?
You get a more predictable outcome within a fixed timeline. The first engagement follows a defined delivery process, agreed scope, and clear timeline, while still leaving room to customize the data model, metrics, and dashboard around your business.
How is Data-to-Dashboard priced?
Pricing depends on the number of data sources, the scope of the first dashboard, and the deployment environment. After the scoping call you get a fixed quote for the agreed scope, with any third-party licensing or cloud costs identified separately, so there are no hidden fees.
What third-party software or cloud costs should we expect?
That depends on the stack you choose. Any licensing, infrastructure, or usage-based costs are identified during solution design and kept visible from the start, so you know what sits outside the Edvantis implementation fee.
Can I get a personalized demo before committing?
Yes! We’ll be delighted to walk you through a dashboard tailored around your business metrics and use case, so you can see how Data-to-Dashboard would work. You can book a demo meeting via the form above.