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Sales & HR Analytics Dashboard

Power BI suite for sales pipeline, HR attrition & KPI tracking with live drill-downs.

Sales & HR Analytics Dashboard

Power BI suite for sales pipeline, HR attrition & KPI tracking with live drill-downs.

The solution

Our strategy was to break down data silos and give leadership a single live cockpit — where sales, people, and marketing metrics speak to each other in real time.

The root cause was not a lack of data — the business had plenty. The real issue was that the data lived in disconnected islands. Leaders made decisions based on incomplete pictures. Our approach was to build a unified data layer first, then surface insights on top of it — not the other way around.

We adopted a "connect, clean, then visualize" strategy: → Connect: Pull all data sources — MySQL, HR platform, and marketing CSVs — into one automated pipeline. → Clean: Apply Python-based ETL logic to standardize, deduplicate, and validate every record before it enters the dashboard. → Visualize: Build executive dashboards in Power BI that answer the questions leadership actually asks — not just display raw numbers.

What this looked like in execution:

  1. Python ETL scripts run on a scheduled basis, automatically ingesting and cleaning data from every source.
  2. A unified star-schema data model was designed to relate sales milestones, HR headcount changes, and marketing spend in one queryable layer.
  3. Power BI dashboards were built with executive-level views — pipeline health, conversion funnels, attrition risk scores, and LTV/CAC ratios.
  4. Complex DAX formulas compute rolling comparisons and dynamic period-over-period trends without manual analyst work.
  5. One-click drill-downs let stakeholders move from the company summary to an individual transaction in seconds.

Leadership went from waiting 10 days for stale reports to refreshing a live dashboard every morning before their standup.

Results

  • 40% Faster Decisions
  • Real-time KPI Refresh
  • 12+ Unified Reports