Straight answers about the practice, the products, and PowerBI.tips. Service-specific questions live on each service page.
Carlo Solutions is a consulting practice for Power BI, data architecture, embedded analytics, and analytics operating models. The work is aimed at mid-sized and enterprise teams that need executive reporting, a platform they can trust, and a way for internal people to keep building after the engagement. Product work such as Power Designer, Entelexos, and Tips+ sits alongside the consulting practice and is not the same purchase.
We usually work with leaders who own the analytics outcome and the technical people who have to run it. That often means a mid-sized company with fragmented data and a stack of Power BI reports that grew by demand, or a product team that needs analytics inside an application. A single one-off visual for a small department is rarely the right fit.
A large systems integrator is a strong fit when you need a broad program across many workstreams, a large staffed team, and enterprise procurement that expects a global firm. Carlo Solutions is a specialist practice. We are a better fit when the problem is Power BI, Fabric or lakehouse architecture, embedded analytics, or a Center of Excellence, and you want senior people on the work rather than a layered delivery model. The comparison guide on this site walks through that choice without ranking firms.
They are related and they are not the same company. Carlo Solutions LLC is the consulting practice led by Mike Carlo. PowerBI.tips is the community and product site Mike created, with tutorials, the theme generator, and Power Designer. Community content is there for people who want to learn and build. It is not a substitute for a consulting engagement, and a consulting contract is not a PowerBI.tips subscription.
Carlo Solutions is based in Sussex, Wisconsin, United States, and works with teams beyond that location. Engagements are scoped around the architecture and the stakeholders, not around a requirement that everyone sit in one office. The contact page is the right place to share where your team is and how you prefer to work.
Four practices have their own pages: Power BI consulting, data engineering and Microsoft Fabric, embedded analytics, and training with a Center of Excellence. Many engagements cross two of those. Start from the business problem and we will tell you which practice actually fits, including when the honest answer is that you do not need us yet.
Yes, but they are separate decisions. The site presents Power Designer, Entelexos, and Tips+ as products teams can use without a consulting project. Consulting is for architecture, governance, embedding strategy, and enablement. We will mention a product when it shortens the path. We will not treat a product subscription as the engagement.
Use the contact page or email sales@carlosolutions.com. If a message is clear and looks legitimate, Mike typically responds within about 48 hours. He does not respond to marketing inquiries or solicitations, and the firm does not review or promote other companies' products.
No. This site explains when a specialist, a large systems integrator, or a do-it-yourself path is the sensible choice. It does not claim a search ranking, a review score, or a list of competitors ordered by quality. If you need help choosing a path for your own estate, start with the comparison guide or the contact page.