Build Custom Business Intelligence Over Your Own Data

Deliver the dashboards, reports, and analytics your business keeps asking for, built directly over your live data in your environment. You control what each role can see, with no per-user BI seats to buy as you roll it out.

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Roll BI Out to Everyone Without Per-User Fees

Off-the-shelf BI raises the same questions: Who has to buy a seat? Where does the data live? Can it write back, or only read? Does it fit your process, or does your process have to change to fit the tool? m-Power answers each one. It builds custom BI apps over your own database, on the same security model as the rest of your applications. Build them internally with m-Power, or have our consultants build for you.

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Show each role only its own data

Row- and column-level security decides who sees which numbers, so one dashboard can safely serve every department.

  • Filter rows by region, plant, or rep
  • Hide cost and margin columns per role
  • Run on your existing sign-on (AD, SAML, OAuth2)
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Build over your live data, where it lives

Run m-Power next to your databases, on-prem or in your cloud. There's no data migration and no separate BI stack to feed.

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Data warehousing is built in

Pull from multiple systems into a clean warehouse, then report over it. No separate ETL tool to license.

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Update the database from your reports

Most BI tools only read. m-Power apps can update the database too, so users can act on what they find without leaving the report.

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Deliver a working app in hours

A model-driven build process turns a data source into a working report or dashboard the same day.

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Roll it out to everyone

Perpetual license, no per-user fees. Give each team the reports and dashboards they need.

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This is a product that I've been looking for, for 30 years, because it checks every box that I wanted in terms of a highly productive development environment without having to build a whole development staff.

Robert Reeder, CIO and VP of Technology, Henley Enterprises

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m-Power could create our order entry application, provide our business intelligence, create an on-line portal, and solve workflow requirements. All of this in the hands of our existing 2-person IT team.

Paul Scyner, Daiwa Sports

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We chose m-Power for its flexible Business Intelligence capabilities. We've consolidated our data into a secure web portal where each department can easily access the data and reports they require in seconds.

Paul Millard, IT Manager, Renzi Foodservice

What Can You Build?

Build over your existing database tables, on-premise or in the cloud. Whether your team builds with m-Power or our consultants build for you, here's what you can deliver:

01 · BI Apps

Reporting and BI Apps Over Your Live Data

Start with a spreadsheet or a database table and build a full BI application: reports, drill-downs, and dashboards, all reading straight from your own data. Watch the full build in the video.

  • Report over live data, no nightly extract required
  • Drill from a summary down to the record
  • Export to Excel or PDF in a click
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02 · Dashboards

Dashboards and Pivot Tables Your Users Control

Give decision-makers a real-time view of the KPIs that matter, then let them slice it themselves. Users build their own dashboards and pivot tables without waiting on a report request.

  • Executive and operational KPI dashboards
  • Web pivot tables users pivot themselves
  • User-defined dashboards each person controls
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03 · Data Warehousing

One Clean View of Data From Multiple Systems

When your data is spread across an ERP, a CRM, and a stack of spreadsheets, m-Power pulls it together into a warehouse and reports over it automatically. No more combining exports by hand.

  • Combine multiple sources into one warehouse
  • Refresh on a schedule you set
  • Report across systems from a single source
04 · Write-Back

Analytics That Can Write Back to Your Data

Because m-Power combines low-code development with BI, its apps read and write. Users can flag a record, update a forecast, or trigger a workflow straight from the report they're looking at.

  • Flag records that need a closer look
  • Update figures without leaving the app
  • Trigger workflows from a data change

Use Cases

A few of the ways IT teams put m-Power to work for business intelligence. Build these yourself, or have our consultants build them for you:

Operational BI dashboards

Give each team a live view of the metrics that drive their day, refreshed straight from your data.

Executive KPI tracking

Roll company-wide KPIs into an executive dashboard that ties back to the underlying detail.

Self-service analytics

Let users answer their own questions with reports they can filter, sort, and pivot on their own.

Drill-down reporting

Move from a summary number to the transactions behind it without switching tools.

Web pivot tables

Interactive pivot tables that let users view the same data from whatever angle they need.

Year-over-year analysis

Compare current performance against a prior period to spot the trend early.

What-if and forecasting

Model how a change would ripple through the business before you commit to it.

Embedded BI in your apps

Drop reports and dashboards into your existing software or a customer portal.

Set up a demo and we'll build a BI app over your data, live.

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Customer story

Renzi Foodservice Got One Clear View of Its Business

Renzi ran on multiple systems that didn't talk to each other, which made tracking true profit, reporting, and budgeting slow and manual. They used m-Power to connect those systems, extend their ERP, and deliver a clear view of the business.

  • Extended the life of their ERP, delaying a $250,000 upgrade
  • Added mobile ERP data access without the module fee
  • Turned a month-long budgeting process into an automated one
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Business Intelligence Demos

Try these live BI apps that were built with m-Power.

Business dashboard demo
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Business Dashboard

A real-time view of an organization's KPIs, the kind of dashboard decision-makers check every morning.

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Year over year analysis demo
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Year-Over-Year Analysis

Compare current data against a prior period to see how the business is trending over time.

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What-if analysis demo
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What-If Analysis

Using past data, this app shows how different changes would affect various parts of the business.

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Enterprise-Grade Security on Every Report

Run BI on the same security model as the rest of your applications, with more granular control than most BI tools give you.

Row-level permissions

Control which users see which rows and columns in an application.

Role-based access

Lock down application and data access per user role.

Use your authentication

Integrate with Active Directory, OAuth2, or SAML.

Audit trails

Full logging of user actions and logins.

Frequently asked questions

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How is m-Power different from a standalone BI tool?

m-Power is the low-code development platform from mrc that builds BI apps over your existing databases. Because it combines development with BI, it does things most BI tools can't: It writes back to the database, includes data warehousing, and builds full custom apps. You own the result and run it in your environment.

In your environment. m-Power runs on-prem or in your cloud, directly over your databases. There's no data migration and no separate BI cloud to send your data to. Reports read live data where it already sits.

No. m-Power is a one-time perpetual license with no per-user fees, so you can roll dashboards and reports out to every employee or customer role without the cost climbing as you add people. See the pricing page for how licensing works.

Both. Most BI tools are read-only. Because m-Power combines low-code development with BI, its apps can update the database too. Users can flag records, update figures, and trigger workflows straight from a report, all under your security model.

Yes. m-Power is one of the few BI tools that includes data warehousing. It can pull data from multiple sources into a warehouse and then let you build BI apps and reports over that clean, combined data, without a separate ETL product.

Yes. Row- and column-level security decides who sees which rows and which columns, so a single dashboard can safely serve every department. Access runs on your existing authentication (Active Directory, OAuth2, SAML), and every action is logged.

Yes. Build reports and dashboards as standalone apps or embed them inside your current software or a customer-facing portal. You control the look, so they can match the app they live in.

Any supported relational database, including SQL Server, Oracle, Db2, MySQL, and more, on-prem or in the cloud. If your data lives in a database, m-Power can report over it, and it can combine several sources into one warehouse.

Both. Your team can build with m-Power's low-code tools after a 5-day training, or our consultants can build it for you or alongside you. 96% of first-time services clients come back for another project.

Often the same day. m-Power's model-driven build process turns a data source into a working report or dashboard in hours rather than weeks. In a demo, we'll build one over your own data so you can see for yourself how fast it goes.

Last updated: July 2026

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