Data-Driven AI - Power Platform Cost Governance

The client faced two major challenges impacting governance and reporting. For cost governance administration: the existing Angular admin tool was functional but not user-friendly for broader distribution, administrators struggled with managing cost centers, ownership, descriptions, budgets, and governance consistency, and a smoother Microsoft-aligned interface was needed. For reporting: profitability data lived in Xero while operational data was in a separate enterprise dataset, causing fragmented visibility into utilization, billable hours, and technician performance — requiring a unified reporting model without disrupting existing dashboards.

MagnusMinds delivered a streamlined Power Platform solution: PowerApps Canvas App built on Dataverse to complement the Angular tool, with list views, filtering, and detailed forms for cost center, purpose, ownership, and budget data, integrated Power Automate to commit updates reliably, and packaged as a managed solution published to the Azure Marketplace for easy deployment. For reporting: Xero data was integrated into the enterprise dataset while preserving existing reports, with visuals for income, cost, overheads, and profit by business unit, utilization KPIs including billable vs. non-billable hours, tickets per technician, workload distribution, and time trends delivered via unified Power BI dashboards.