Data Panda brings your IonBiz data together with the data from the rest of your business. From one place, we turn it into dashboards, automations, AI workflows and custom apps your team uses every day.
IonBiz is a Mechelen-built business platform for project-driven services firms, covering project management, resource planning, time and expense registration, CRM, procurement, helpdesk ticketing and Peppol-compliant e-invoicing in one stack. The vendor reports more than 24,000 users across 150-plus organisations, with engineering, ICT, consultancy and architecture firms as the typical buyers.
The point of pulling IonBiz into a warehouse is that project margin leaks the way it always has in services firms, only across more dimensions: hours per consultant, billable rates per skill, contract types, fixed-price overruns, ticket SLAs, subcontractor cost. IonBiz already exposes an OData feed for Power BI users, so the data is reachable. The work is sitting that feed next to your CRM, your accounting ledger and your HR data, so billable hours, project P&L and pipeline coverage stop being three separate spreadsheets glued together once a month.
Hours, invoices, tickets and project margin per consultant, project and client.
Let IonBiz events drive the rest of your stack.
Use project history to forecast risk and demand.
Internal tools on IonBiz data for delivery leads and partners.
A list of concrete reports, automations and AI features we have built on IonBiz data. Pick the one that matches your situation.
Which fixed-price projects are quietly going underwater this month?
Burned hours against the contracted budget per project, with the slope of the last four weeks. Ranks the projects whose burn rate has overtaken the remaining budget, which is where steering-committee surprises usually come from.
Does the next quarter's pipeline match the consultants we have available?
Open opportunities weighted by stage against forecast capacity per skill and quarter, with end-of-contract dates on the same view. Hire-or-subcontract conversations move forward to the quarter before the bench tilts.
Where is realisation slipping below the rate card?
Average invoiced rate against contracted rate per skill, customer and project type. Exposes the customers and skills where day rates have quietly drifted, which the average-rate slide in the partner pack tends to hide.
Project margin, work-in-progress and realisation tied to timesheet, invoice and rate-card data. Year-end surprises on fixed-price contracts give way to a weekly view of which projects are eating the budget.
Pipeline coverage, win rate and rate-card slippage per account manager. Forecast conversations move from gut feel to opportunities weighted against the bench you have available next quarter.
Utilisation, timesheet completeness, ticket SLAs and resource demand on one board. Resourcing decisions happen against real availability, not against the loudest project lead in the staffing meeting.
Approved IonBiz invoices flow into Exact Online with customer, VAT and ledger coding aligned. Project leads keep working in IonBiz, finance closes the month in Exact, and the audit trail stays consistent without double entry.
Invoices generated from IonBiz timesheets and projects ship over the Peppol network through Billit, with status and payment events flowing back. Public-sector and large-corporate clients receive structured e-invoices and DSO drops without a separate manual step.
Instead of pulling IonBiz tables one at a time over OData into a Power BI report that breaks on the next field rename, IonBiz lands in your warehouse and Power BI reads from a clean dimensional model. Visuals stay stable when the IonBiz schema shifts.
When a HubSpot deal flips to closed-won, the matching IonBiz project skeleton is created with customer, contract type, contracted rate and assigned account manager carried over. The handover from sales to delivery loses the spreadsheet step.
Hours logged against Jira issues post into the matching IonBiz project and task, so engineering teams stay in their tool of record while delivery leads see one project budget. The double timesheet conversation goes away.
New IonBiz projects spawn the matching SharePoint folder structure with customer, project number and access groups set from the IonBiz record. Closed tickets and approved deliverables file themselves to the right folder, so the audit doesn't start with a folder hunt.
Internal cost rates from Workday flow into IonBiz, so project margin uses the consultant's actual fully-loaded cost. Year-end margin reviews stop relying on a flat blended rate that nobody believes anymore.
These are the 97 tables we currently pull from IonBiz into your warehouse. Query them directly in SQL, join them to the rest of your stack, or build reports on top.
Missing a table you need? We can extend the sync. Tell us what is missing and we will build it for you.
You keep the reporting tool you already have. We connect it to the warehouse where your IonBiz data lives.
OAuth authentication. Read-only by default. We sign a DPA and your admin keeps the keys.
Data flows into your warehouse on your schedule. Near real time or nightly, your call. You own the data.
We build the first dashboard, workflow or AI feature with you, then hand over the keys. Or we stay on for ongoing delivery.
We set up the foundation. Your team builds on top.
Best fit Teams that already have a BI analyst or data engineer and want to own the build.
We build the whole thing, end to end.
Best fit Teams without in-house BI or dev capacity. You tell us what you need and we deliver it.
You do. It lands in your warehouse, on your cloud account. We don't resell or aggregate it. If you stop working with us, the warehouse stays yours and keeps running.
Near real time for most operational systems. For heavier sources we schedule hourly or nightly. You pick based on what the reports need.
No. If you don't have one, we help you pick one and set it up as part of the first delivery. Common starting points are Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, or a small Postgres start.
OData straight into Power BI works for a single report and a single source. Once you want IonBiz next to your CRM, your accounting ledger and your HR data, the OData approach starts pulling tables individually for every report and breaks on schema changes. Landing IonBiz in your warehouse keeps Power BI working and adds the rest of the firm's data on the same model.
Yes. Each legal entity lands with the right dimension and project numbering is preserved. Group networks get per-entity billable hours and project margin plus a consolidated view, without merging timesheet exports by hand at month-end.
We review your IonBiz setup and the systems around it. Together we pick the first thing worth building.