Snowflake holds your data. If your business users cannot see it, it is not working for you.
Snowflake is a powerful data warehouse, but it does not produce dashboards on its own. MHC Kenworth had the data. They needed the reporting layer that made it usable for everyone, not just analysts who write SQL.
Does this describe your Snowflake environment?
- Snowflake holds your operational data, but business users cannot access it without SQL
- Sales, inventory, and service reporting still happens in separate tools
- Executive reports are assembled manually from exports on a periodic basis
- KPI definitions differ across teams, and no one agrees on the numbers
- No consistent view of performance across multiple locations or dealerships
- Your data team built the warehouse, but the business has not felt the benefit yet
What Armely built
MHC Kenworth is a multi-location commercial truck dealership network operating across sales, service, parts, and finance. Their Snowflake data warehouse held the operational data, but their business teams could not access it without going through a data analyst.
Armely connected Snowflake to Power BI, built a shared data model with consistent KPI logic, and delivered dashboards for sales performance, inventory, service operations, and executive reporting.
Business users now see live data. Analysts can focus on analysis instead of fielding recurring report requests.
At a glance
| Before | After |
|---|---|
| Snowflake data warehouse in place with no reporting layer connected to it | Power BI connected directly to Snowflake using DirectQuery and import modes |
| Operational data accessible only to analysts who could write SQL queries | Business users access live dashboards without writing a single query |
| Sales, inventory, service, and financial data analyzed in separate tools | Unified Power BI environment surfaces all four domains in connected reports |
| No consistent KPI definitions across teams and locations | Shared data model enforces consistent KPI logic across all reports and users |
| Executive reporting assembled manually from exports each reporting cycle | Executive dashboards refresh automatically from Snowflake on defined schedules |
| No visibility into dealership performance trends across multiple locations | Multi-location performance comparisons available in real time |