RBRyan Bentham
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Hi, I'm Ryan.
I deliver modern data & AI solutions on Microsoft Fabric.

UK-based Microsoft analytics specialist, CIMA accountant, and founder of Inovora. 15+ years helping finance leaders and business owners modernise reporting, automate manual processes, and unlock AI-powered decision-making.

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About

Practical analytics, thoughtfully built.

About me

Clients worked with

Trusted by brands large and small.

Finance specialism

I transform finance teams.

CIMA-qualified and embedded in finance for over a decade. I speak the language of CFOs, Finance Directors and Heads of FP&A — and I understand the pressure of month-end, board packs and audit season.

Most of my clients are finance leaders looking to modernise reporting without losing control. I help them replace brittle Excel processes, automate the manual stuff and unlock genuine value from the team they already have.

The result: faster closes, fewer errors, sharper insight — and a finance function that finally has time to be strategic.

CIMA
Qualified
15+
Years

Dashboards

Auto-refreshed interactive dashboards for every level of the business, putting instant insights on demand into the hands of leaders, managers and analysts alike.

FP&A modernisation

Automating finance processes, replacing manual spreadsheets and upskilling the team — so FP&A spends its time on analysis, not assembly.

Bespoke apps & visuals

Fully bespoke UIs and custom visuals — letting teams enter data, manage forecasts and own their inputs. Not just automating outputs, automating the way data goes in too.

AI enhancements

Ask questions of your data, auto-generate commentaries, run sentiment analysis and embed chat agents across the organisation — modernising the entire reporting process with AI.

Services

Three pillars across the Microsoft data stack.

01

Analytics

Power BI, Microsoft Fabric and modern data modelling. From executive dashboards to embedded analytics inside your product.

  • Feature-rich dashboards
  • White label apps and portals
  • Data Modelling
  • Self-service Reporting
02

AI

Azure OpenAI, custom copilots and intelligent automation. Answers, predictions and summaries built directly on your data.

  • Azure OpenAI
  • Copilot and Fabric data agents
  • RAG Architectures
  • Embedded chat agents
03

Automation

Power Automate, pipeline orchestration and workflow optimisation. Reduce manual work and keep insights flowing.

  • Power Automate
  • Pipeline Orchestration
  • Alerting & Monitoring
  • Workflow Design
Pain points

Sound familiar? Here's how I help.

Manual reporting
01

Your team is still building reports by hand every month

The problem

Finance spends a week every month copying, pasting and reconciling Excel files just to produce a management pack. It's repetitive, error-prone and burns team morale.

How I solve it

Fabric pipelines automate the entire data journey — ingestion, cleansing, modelling and refresh. Power BI serves the pack automatically. Your team gets their week back.

  • Power Automate
  • Fabric Pipelines
  • Power BI
Siloed data
02

Your data lives in ten places and talks to none of them

The problem

ERP, CRM, payroll and web analytics all sit in separate systems. Getting a single view means exports, VLOOKUPs and prayers that nothing changed overnight.

How I solve it

A Fabric lakehouse brings every source into one governed layer. Semantic models unify the schema so one Power BI report sees everything — no more stitching.

  • Microsoft Fabric
  • Lakehouse
  • OneLake
Bloated workbooks
03

Your Excel files are 200MB and one broken link from disaster

The problem

Critical models live in shared drives, crash on open and rely on one person's knowledge. Version control is renaming the file with a date.

How I solve it

Migrate the logic into a governed Fabric semantic model. Power BI becomes the front end, refresh is scheduled and the data is always current and safe.

  • Semantic Models
  • DAX
  • Data Governance
Analyst bottleneck
04

Business users queue up for answers that should be instant

The problem

Every question — a headcount tweak, a margin drill, a cohort comparison — goes through a ticket to the BI team. Wait time: days or weeks.

How I solve it

Self-service Power BI with row-level security lets users explore safely within their permissions. An Azure OpenAI copilot handles natural-language questions directly on the model.

  • Self-service
  • RLS
  • Azure OpenAI
Stale decisions
05

You're making calls on data that's already a week old

The problem

Board packs are printed on Friday for Monday's meeting. By the time the numbers are discussed, the market, stock or pipeline has already shifted.

How I solve it

Direct Lake in Fabric streams live operational data into Power BI with sub-second refresh. The board sees today, not last Friday.

  • Direct Lake
  • Real-time
  • Power BI
Data-rich, insight-poor
06

You have dashboards nobody reads and questions nobody can answer

The problem

Pages of charts exist, but executives still ask 'So what?' Ad-hoc analysis means exporting to Excel and starting from scratch every time.

How I solve it

RAG-based copilots scoped to your semantic model give leadership instant, cited answers. The insight layer finally catches up to the data layer.

  • Azure OpenAI
  • RAG
  • Copilots
Showcase

A glimpse of recent work.

Delivery

A model built for lasting partnerships.

1

Discovery & POC

A 2–4 week sprint to map your data landscape, validate the approach and deliver a working proof-of-concept you can actually test.

2

Build & Implement

Full development, integration and rollout. Clean handovers, documented models and hands-on training so your team can take the reins.

3

Support & Evolve

Ongoing optimisation, new features and health checks. Your data capability keeps maturing — it never stands still.

Ongoing Partnership

Regular touchpoints, ongoing project management and hands-on consultancy at every stage and beyond.

Runs parallel to every stage →
Articles

Articles & insights.

A few highlights — see more on LinkedIn.

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Ryan Bentham
Founder, Inovora · Microsoft Power BI & Fabric Specialist
3d · LinkedIn

Why Direct Lake changes the Power BI performance conversation

Direct Lake quietly removes one of the biggest trade-offs in Power BI architecture. Here's why it matters for finance teams running large semantic models…

#MicrosoftFabric#PowerBI
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Ryan Bentham
Founder, Inovora · Microsoft Power BI & Fabric Specialist
1w · LinkedIn

Building a Fabric copilot that finance leaders actually trust

RAG, citations, and a governed semantic model. Three ingredients that separate a demo from a copilot your CFO will sign off on…

#AzureOpenAI#Copilots
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RB
Ryan Bentham
Founder, Inovora · Microsoft Power BI & Fabric Specialist
2w · Website

From month-end pain to a 2-day close: the automation playbook

A practical walkthrough of how we replaced 8 days of spreadsheet wrangling with a Fabric pipeline, a self-service pack and a few well-placed Power Automate flows…

#Automation#Finance
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RB
Ryan Bentham
Founder, Inovora · Microsoft Power BI & Fabric Specialist
3w · LinkedIn

Embedded analytics: white-labelling Power BI inside a React app

What the docs don't tell you about RLS, theming and multi-tenant workspaces when you're shipping analytics as part of your product…

#PowerBIEmbedded#React
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Ready to make your data work harder?

Let's talk about your data landscape, the challenges of your finance function or business, and how we can use Microsoft Fabric, Power BI and Azure to bring analytics, AI and automation to your team.

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