When building BI with Power BI or similar tools, you almost always start with a question:
“How should we model the data?”
It sounds technical – and it is. For every new KPI or dashboard, you have to create new relationships, tables, calculations, keys, and filter logic. Every time you want to follow a new process, the model needs to be changed.
That’s why BI solutions often end up right where they started:
✅ A few good views for what you knew you needed
❌ No support for what you later realize you need
That’s why we chose to standardize the entire data model
At Homepal, we did the opposite. We built an industry-specific data model—once, for all customers—that already includes everything needed to create:
- KPIs
- filters
- comparisons
- dashboards
- alerts
- reports
- notifications
No matter which property system you use. No matter what types of units you have. No matter what role you work in.
That’s why “it’s not possible” is rarely an answer with us
The customer says:
“We’d like to measure how long it takes from termination to the first listing.”
In a traditional BI project:
“That might be tricky—we haven’t connected contract data with listing data.”
In Homepal:
“That’s already a KPI. We even support tracking every step of the rental process.”
Because we’ve already:
- built a virtual entity for the rental process
- defined the start and end points
- linked units, contracts, listings, and inspections
- standardized it across the entire model
This is why we call ourselves a product company
In Power BI, each customer owns their own model – and every model is unique. That means every change comes at a cost. Every new KPI requires analysis, requirements gathering, and development.
In Homepal, we own the model – and that’s exactly why we can:
- add new KPIs every week
- roll out improvements to all customers instantly
- improve once – and help hundreds of users at the same time
The result?
- We build faster.
- You get started faster.
- You gain more insight with less friction.
That’s why we say: our data model doesn’t limit – it enables.
Next time we’ll explain why our real competitive edge is spelled KPIs – and why simply “having access to data” isn’t enough:
