Most teams I meet still email CSV files between departments. Every Monday morning, someone spends 2 hours cleaning, joining, and pasting numbers into a slide. That's $50K/year of analyst time you're paying to copy data.
Here's the pipeline I deploy: Python scripts for extraction, Power Query for transformation, scheduled refreshes through Power BI Service or a simple cron job. Total setup time: 1-2 weeks. Time saved: forever.
If your team has a recurring weekly report — that's a candidate for automation. Let's talk about what you'd do with those 2 hours back every Monday.