Services
Microsoft apps and custom dashboards
Dashboards and workflow apps on the Microsoft 365 platform you already pay for, fed by your operations systems.
For Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Part 135 and 121 operators and Canadian Aviation Regulations (CAR) 704 and 705 operators who already pay for Microsoft 365.
Most operators already pay for Microsoft 365 and use a fraction of it. Built on properly, Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate and SharePoint can replace a good share of the subscription software an operation collects. We build the dashboards and apps, connect them to your flight ops, crew and finance data, and keep them running.
The first step is counting what you already run. Operators guess around 30 applications. In every full audit we have run, the real number has come back over 100, and 10 to 15 percent of that is the same job paid for twice. A good share of it can be retired onto the Microsoft licences you already pay for.
What is left is the reporting nobody has time to build: fleet and crew figures pulled from three systems, a month-end close that takes days, an approval that still runs on email. We build those in Power BI, Power Apps and Power Automate, connected to the source systems, so the numbers are current without anyone rebuilding them.
What we build
Power BI dashboards
Fleet, crew and financial figures in one Power BI view, refreshed from the source systems instead of rebuilt by hand every month.
Workflow apps
Approvals, requests and checklists in Power Apps and Power Automate, in place of email chains and paper forms.
SharePoint sites and document management
Controlled documents, manuals and team sites, with permissions set so the right people see the right files.
How AI does the work
Dashboards built in days
Power BI models, Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) measures and Power Automate flows are code, and the AI writes most of it. An engineer designs the model, checks the figures against the source systems, and ships it in days rather than weeks.
Data cleaned on the way in
AI handles the messy part of reporting: reading exports with inconsistent formats, matching names across systems, and flagging rows that do not reconcile, so the dashboard is built on data that agrees.
An assistant on your data
Where it helps, we put an AI assistant on the model, so a manager can ask a question in plain language and get the table and the chart, inside the guardrails we set on what it can query.
Tenant work under guardrails
We run Microsoft 365 administration through the same tooling we use on our own tenant: scripted, logged, and blocked from risky changes until a person confirms them.
How it works
- 1We list what you pay for today and what each licence is actually used for.
- 2We build the report or process that costs your team the most time in your Microsoft 365 tenant, connected to the systems that hold the data.
- 3We review usage with you and retire the subscriptions it replaces.
Where we have done it
Great North Airlines
ForIT is Great North's chief information officer (CIO).
Planet Nine Private Air
Their flight history back to 2018 sits in a data mart they own, with the reports finance asked for on top. We are adding an assistant that answers questions about it in plain English.
Response Aviation Search
We consolidated their Microsoft 365 environment alongside a rebuilt website and recruiting tooling.
CAYRES
We built and manage their website, brand system and employee portal.
Questions operators ask
We already pay for Microsoft 365. Why are we not using this already?
Most operators use a fraction of the licence: mail, files, Teams. Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate and SharePoint are in the same subscription and can replace a good share of the subscription software an operation collects, but someone has to build on them properly. That is the work we do.
Where does the data come from?
Your flight operations platform, crew records, accounting and the exports your team already pulls. We connect to them through their application programming interfaces (APIs) or scheduled transfers, so the dashboard refreshes from the source instead of from a spreadsheet someone rebuilds by hand every month.
How does the work start?
We list what you pay for today and what each licence is used for, then build the report or process that costs your team the most time.
Will our team be able to change it?
Yes. We build in your tenant, in tools your team already has access to, and hand over documentation. A report your team can adjust is worth more than one only we understand.
What about Copilot?
Copilot is useful where it is already in the tools your team uses. For work that needs to be right every time, such as a reconciliation or a compliance report, we build it deliberately and test it, and we use AI inside that build rather than a general assistant.
How does this fit with the rest of what ForIT does?
The same engineer who builds the dashboards can run the tenant, the devices and the service desk. The engagement is month to month, and the dashboards and apps stay with you.