Microsoft Data & BI Consulting

Senior data leadership. Hands-on delivery. Same chair.

Defining BI helps organizations get real business value from Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, and Azure data platforms with the judgment of a practice leader and the output of a senior BI engineer.

Since 2016Power BI from pioneer deployments to enterprise platforms
300 → 11Legacy spreadsheet reports consolidated into one interactive app
700+Customers served by Power BI platforms architected
F500 → mid-marketOil & gas, retail, manufacturing, software, supply chain
Services

Engagements shaped around outcomes

Every engagement is designed with long-term value in mind: decisions made faster, platforms that run smoothly, and teams that keep momentum.

Advise

Strategic Advisory

Fractional data leadership, second opinions, and blind-spot hunting. A sounding board with practice-leadership tenure on retainer or on demand.

Assess

BI Assessment

A fixed-fee, fixed-scope look at your Power BI estate. You get a candid read on what's working, what isn't, and a prioritized plan you can execute with or without us.

Deliver

AI-Ready BI

Get your semantic models ready for the AI era, Fabric data agents, model audits for conversational readiness, and AI-assisted development practices that compound.

Deliver

Power BI Delivery

Semantic models, reports, deployment pipelines, and governance built to enterprise standards. Architecture decisions in one hour, working code the next.

Embed

Staff Augmentation

Senior Power BI development, administration, and architecture embedded in your team. Speed to delivery without the ramp-up tax.

Not sure?

Start with a conversation

Thirty minutes, no pitch deck. Bring the problem; I'll tell you honestly whether I'm the right fit and point you elsewhere if I'm not.

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Why Defining BI

The range of a team in one consultant

Business value first

Reports are a means, not the deliverable. Work is delivered prioritizing the decisions and dollars it moves.

Leader and builder

Practice-leadership judgment with senior-IC output; strategy and stakeholders in the morning, semantic models and automation in the afternoon.

Tenant administration & automation

Power BI platforms that deploy, govern, and monitor themselves. Fabric CLI, REST APIs, source control, the works.

AI-enablement with purpose, not hype

AI-assisted development across administration, deployment, and modeling. Building BI-as-code skills in data practices. Applied daily to deliver compounding value.

"He operated as a senior technical leader and a hands-on IC simultaneously, shaping architecture and product decisions in one hour and building deployment automation the next."
Jon MeadowsChief Technology Operations Officer, Silverchair
Approach

A simple pattern that keeps working

Assess

Understand the business, the data estate, and the gap between them. Name the problem precisely before spending against it.

Plan

A prioritized path to close gaps and grow value. Quick wins separated from structural fixes, with the trade-offs in plain language.

Deliver

Execute with senior hands, automate what should never be manual again, and leave your team stronger and growing in skillset.

About

Nick Sadulski
Principal Consultant & Founder

MS Enterprise Data AnalystData Analyst AssociateMCSA: BI ReportingLean Six SigmaMBA

A decade in Microsoft data from pioneering Power BI inside a Fortune 500, to leading a BI consulting practice, to directing analytics modernization and enterprise platform rebuild.

Defining BI exists for organizations that need that range without the overhead: leadership-grade judgment, architect-grade design, and engineer-grade delivery, billed as one consultant.

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Let's define what your data should do.

A thirty-minute conversation is the cheapest assessment you'll ever run. Bring the problem that's bugging you.

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