Power Platform Dataflows
Consultancy Services
Mata365 provides Power Platform Dataflows consultancy for Irish SMEs, designing and building reusable dataflows that clean, transform, and unify data from multiple sources for accurate, reliable reporting and analytics. We are based in Dublin and work with Irish and UK businesses across every sector.
How Power Platform Dataflows
Helps
Data Management
Dataflows enable businesses to unify, clean, and transform data from multiple sources for consistent and reliable reporting.
Data Integration
Connect and consolidate data from multiple business sources into a single, unified dataflow so your Irish team works from one consistent, accurate version of the data.
Data Transformation
Clean, reshape, and prepare raw data from any source into structured, analytics-ready datasets that feed accurate reports across Power BI and Power Apps for your Irish business.
Reusable Data Models
Build reusable dataflow logic that any report or app in your Power Platform environment can draw from, so your Irish business maintains one governed source of truth at scale.
Our Dataflows Consultancy
Services
End-to-end Dataflows solutions to simplify data preparation and improve analytics performance.
Our Dataflows
Implementation Process
A structured approach to designing, building, and optimising Power Platform dataflows that give your Irish business clean, reliable, and reusable data from day one.
Discover & Plan
Audit your current data sources, reporting requirements, and data quality issues, identifying where data is inconsistent, duplicated, or poorly structured, and defining the right dataflow architecture to unify and clean your Irish business data before any build work begins.
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Design & Configure
Design the dataflow structure including source connections, Power Query transformation steps, data model relationships, and refresh schedules, configuring everything in a development environment so your Irish business can review and approve the data output before it connects to live reports or apps.
Deploy & Optimise
Deploy dataflows to your Power Platform environment, connect them to Power BI datasets and Power Apps data sources, run full refresh cycles to verify data accuracy and performance, and optimise transformation logic and refresh schedules based on your Irish business reporting needs.
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Train & Support
Train your data owners and Power Platform administrators on managing and updating dataflows, and provide ongoing Dublin-based support to update transformation logic, resolve refresh failures, and expand the dataflow architecture as your Irish business data requirements grow.
Power Platform Dataflows Common Questions.
Common questions about Power Platform Dataflows consultancy, answered for Irish businesses looking to improve data quality, unify multiple data sources, and build reliable analytics on Microsoft Power Platform.
What are Power Platform Dataflows and why do Irish businesses need them?
Power Platform Dataflows are a cloud-based data preparation tool built into Microsoft Power Platform that lets businesses extract data from multiple sources, clean and transform it using Power Query, and load it into Dataverse or Power BI datasets for reporting and analytics. For Irish businesses, the problem Dataflows solves is data inconsistency — sales figures that do not match between reports, duplicate records across systems, and raw data that requires manual cleanup before it can be used. Without a data preparation layer, every Power BI report and Power Apps solution in your Irish business works from raw, unprocessed data that may be wrong. Dataflows create a single, governed transformation layer that all your reports and apps draw from, so when the source data changes, everything downstream updates consistently. Mata365 designs and builds Dataflows for Irish businesses across every sector.
What is the difference between Power Platform Dataflows and Power BI dataflows for an Irish business?
Power BI dataflows are built and managed inside the Power BI service, and the transformed data they produce is primarily available to Power BI reports and datasets. Power Platform dataflows are built in the Power Apps maker portal and load transformed data into Dataverse, making it available not just to Power BI but to Power Apps, Power Automate, and other Power Platform tools. For Irish businesses that use only Power BI for analytics, Power BI dataflows may be sufficient. For Irish businesses that also use Power Apps or Power Automate and want a shared, reusable data layer across all of those tools, Power Platform dataflows are the right approach. Mata365 assesses your current Power Platform usage and recommends the right dataflow architecture for your specific Irish business requirements before any development begins.
What data sources can Power Platform Dataflows connect to for an Irish business?
Power Platform Dataflows support a wide range of connectors including SharePoint lists, SQL Server, Azure SQL, Excel files stored in OneDrive or SharePoint, Dynamics 365, Dataverse tables, Salesforce, Google Analytics, REST APIs, and many other sources. For Irish businesses with data spread across multiple systems — a CRM, an accounting platform, SharePoint lists, and Excel spreadsheets used by different departments, Dataflows can pull all of that data into a single, unified transformation layer that feeds consistent reports and applications. Mata365 maps your existing data sources and designs the right connection strategy for every Dataflows engagement with Irish businesses.
How do Power Platform Dataflows improve Power BI report performance for Irish businesses?
Power BI reports that query raw source systems directly are slow, fragile, and expensive at scale — every report refresh hits the source system directly, transformation logic is duplicated across multiple reports, and when source data changes structure, multiple reports break simultaneously. Dataflows move the transformation logic out of Power BI reports into a separate, shared layer that runs on a schedule and loads clean, pre-transformed data into Power BI. This means Power BI reports refresh faster because they read from pre-processed data rather than querying raw systems, transformation logic is maintained in one place rather than duplicated across reports, and when source data structures change, only the Dataflow needs updating rather than every individual report. For Irish businesses with multiple Power BI reports drawing from the same data sources, this improvement in reliability and performance is significant.
Are Power Platform Dataflows suitable for small Irish businesses or are they only for enterprise?
Dataflows are suitable for Irish businesses of any size and are included in Power Apps and Power BI licensing at no additional cost. Small Irish businesses that use SharePoint as their primary data store and Power BI for reporting benefit from Dataflows because they eliminate the manual data cleanup work that currently happens before reports can be built. Mid-sized Irish businesses with multiple data sources across CRM, accounting, and operations benefit from Dataflows because they create a governed, consistent data layer that removes the inconsistencies that currently cause different teams to work from different numbers. Mata365 builds Dataflows for Irish SMEs starting from very straightforward single-source setups and scaling to complex multi-source architectures as the business data requirements grow.
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