How Fercopor strengthened decision-making and operational efficiency with Business Intelligence, powered by DevScope

• Fragmented information across systems and spreadsheets.
• Manual reporting processes (Excel and PowerPoint) that were time-consuming and error-prone.
• Limited real-time visibility for management, partners and financial institutions.
• Increasing pressure on finance and controlling teams to scale reporting without proportionally scaling headcount.

The organization quickly realized that traditional tools were no longer sufficient to support the scale, complexity and credibility required by a fast-growing real estate group.

Fercopor   partnered with DevScope to design and implement a centralized Business Intelligence strategy, with a strong focus on automation, data reliability and scalability.

• Data centralization through the existing ERP, used as the single source of truth for: Sales contracts, Accounting and Treasury and Financial and Operational Data.
• Power BI dashboards connected directly to ERP and SQL sources, covering:Treasury and Cash-Flow monitoring by project and bank account, Financial Performance and Management Reporting, Controlling and forecasting analysis and Executive and partner reporting pack.
• Automated reporting: Dashboards refresh automatically, Reports are distributed without manual intervention and Consistent metrics over time, reducing human error.
  
• Progressive enablement of internal teams: DevScope led the initial architecture, data modeling and dashboard development. Later, tailored Power BI training empowered Fercopor’s controlling team to develop and evolve reports independently. And Ongoing technical support ensured continuous improvement without breaking governance or data integrity.

This approach ensured that the solution was fully adapted to the realities of luxury real estate, where project-based financial visibility, credibility with banks and investors, and up to-date reporting are critical.

Tangible Results

• Up to 3–4 hours saved per day on treasury reporting alone: A daily cash-flow report that previously consumed an entire morning is now generated automatically.
• Zero manual effort to prepare recurring management reports.
• Higher data reliability eliminating copy-paste errors across spreadsheets and presentations.
• Scalability without headcount growth. Without BI automation, Fercopor estimates it would need 2–3 additional controllers to maintain the same reporting level.

Day-to-Day Operational Gains

• Teams shifted from repetitive tasks to value-added analysis.
• New reports could be developed using the time freed by automation, creating a virtuous cycle.
• Management gained real-time access to updated data, even during meetings and on mobile devices.
• External stakeholders (banks, partners) received structured, consistent and credible information.

Key Indicators Improved

• Productivity gains across finance and controlling.
• Stakeholder satisfaction in the consumption and trustworthiness of information.

Strategic Perspective

• Internally, other departments (Commercial, Engineering) began requesting similar BI capabilities after seeing the results in Finance
• Externally, BI reporting reinforced Fercopor’s credibility and organizational maturity, particularly with financial institutions

During a meeting with a major bank, Nelson Pereira, Chief Financial Officer of  Fercopor received feedback highlighting that:

“We work with much larger real estate groups that do not have this level of organization and reporting.”

Major bank feedback regarding Fercopor‘s financial report  

This perception strengthened trust, accelerated discussions and positioned Fercopor as a technologically mature and well-governed organization, a clear competitive advantage in the luxury real estate market.

The Experience with DevScope

• Strong technical expertise in Power BI, SQL and data modeling
• High availability and responsiveness to evolving needs
• A collaborative mindset focused on knowledge transfer, not dependency
• Willingness to train internal teams without limiting future collaboration

Rather than reducing DevScope’s involvement, internal enablement expanded the scope and impact of BI initiatives, enabling more advanced and ambitious reporting scenarios over time.

By partnering with DevScope, Fercopor transformed Business Intelligence from a reporting tool into a foundation for continuously raising standards in operational excellence and strategic credibility.

What started as a financial reporting need evolved into a company-wide data culture enabling faster decisions, stronger stakeholder trust and a sustainable competitive advantage in the luxury real estate sector.

Interested in achieving similar results? Discover how DevScope   helps organizations turn data into confident decisions through modern BI, automation and analytics.