A Control Tower for every role – and every partner
Executives, finance, operations and sustainability teams each get the view they need, built on the same live data. Create as many dashboards as you like, share them with customers and vendors, and act on what you see – without leaving the screen.
One Data ModelOne Digital TwinOne Connected Ecosystem
Build your own
Unlimited dashboards, composed by drag and drop from 60+ highly configurable widgets.
See, predict – and act
What happened, what is happening now and what is coming next. Many widgets let you act right where you see the issue.
Everything connected
Pick a customer, vendor or shipment in one widget and every linked widget follows. We call it context binding.
Share with partners
Share dashboards with colleagues, customers and vendors – each sees only the data they are allowed to see.
Start from a template
Four ready-made views – executive, logistics, sustainability and finance. Use them as they are, make your own variant, or build from scratch. The figures shown are sample data.
Power BI shows you the report.A Control Tower runs the operation.
Connect Power BI to FourPro through our analytics service and keep every report you already have. When your team needs to see what is happening right now and act on it, they open a Control Tower dashboard. Same data, two jobs, no rebuild.
Live in a second.Or fresh every hour.
Control Tower dashboards read FourPro's live data model, so what you see is what is happening. Power BI refreshes from the analytics feed on a schedule, every hour, which is exactly right for reports, trends and board packs.
Act where you see the issue
Control Tower dashboards have actions built in. Reassign a shipment, notify a customer or confirm a booking from the widget that shows the problem. Power BI reports are for understanding what happened; you build the follow-up separately, for example with Power Apps or Power Automate.
Power BI report
Delivery performance
- High risk:SH-20418 · Oslo to Bergen+4 h
- Medium risk:SH-20431 · Moss to Tromsø+1 h
See it here, then switch to another system to do something about it.
Control Tower
Delivery performance · live
- High risk:SH-20418 · +4 hReassign
- Medium risk:SH-20431 · +1 hNotify customer
Act right where you see the issue.
Two tools, two jobs
Power BI can do more than this table shows. The difference is that FourPro ships it ready for logistics, so your team spends time on operations instead of building and maintaining the model.
| Topic | Power BI | FourPro Control Tower |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Analysing and reporting across the company | Running the operation day to day |
| Typical question | “How did we perform last quarter?” | “Which deliveries are at risk right now?” |
| Data | Via FourPro's analytics service, ready-modelled for logistics | The live data model itself |
| Freshness | Refreshed on a schedule, every hour | Live, within a second |
| Act on what you see | Built separately, for example with Power Apps or Power Automate | Actions built into the dashboards, right where you see the issue |
| Context | You build the links between visuals | Context binding: pick a customer, vendor or shipment and every linked widget follows |
| Partners | Possible with extra licensing and setup | Share dashboards with customers and vendors, each seeing only their own data |
| Ask in plain language | Via Copilot on your own model | Via Copilot or any other AI agent that supports MCP |
| Best at | Deep analysis, board reporting, trends | Visibility, exceptions and decisions during the working day |
You do not have to choose
Use Power BI whenYou need to explore, report and analyse
Explore data from across the company, build board reports or follow trends. Point it at FourPro's analytics service and the logistics data arrives ready-modelled.
Use a Control Tower whenPeople need to act while there is still time
Planners, dispatchers and customer service see problems as they happen, and do something about them from the same screen.
Use bothOne source of truth, three ways in
Control Towers handle the working day. Power BI handles the deep analysis. Copilot and other AI agents can ask FourPro questions through MCP. All of it rests on the same data.
Your data, wherever you need it
FourPro is built on open standards. The data stays in one place, and you choose the tool. Our analytics service lets anyone build a data set – choose the data, filter it and decide who may see it – without SQL or technical knowledge. Use it inside your company, or share it with customers and suppliers.
Data sets without code
Choose the data, filter it and restrict it in a few clicks. No SQL and no developers needed.
Ready for customers and suppliers
Publish a data set for a partner, and they see only their own orders, shipments and figures.
Into Power BI and Excel
Each data set is delivered over OData, ready-modelled for logistics. Keep the reports and measures you already have.
Into Copilot and other AI agents
Turn the same data set into an MCP service, so Copilot or any AI agent that supports MCP can answer questions about it, with the permissions you set.
Built on open standards
OData and MCP are open standards, not FourPro inventions. OData is an OASIS standard used by Power BI, Excel and many other tools. MCP is an open protocol supported by Copilot, Claude and many other AI agents. You choose your tools, and you are not locked in.
Before you ask
We already have Power BI dashboards.
Keep them. Connect them to FourPro's analytics service, and they now run on one trusted source.
Do we have to rebuild our reports?
No. Your reports and measures stay as they are. You only change where the data comes from.
Can we use other tools than Power BI?
The analytics service works with Microsoft Power BI and Microsoft Power Query for Excel. Other services may be added later.
Do we need extra Power BI licences?
Sharing reports through the Power BI service follows Microsoft’s normal licensing, the same as for your other reports. You can use your existing licences, if you have them.
Will this replace our BI team?
No. It takes repetitive operational reporting off their plate, so they can focus on deeper analysis.
What is the difference between a Control Tower and a dashboard?
A dashboard shows you data. A Control Tower is where you run the operation: live dashboards built on one data model, linked through context binding, with actions built in and shared with the partners you choose. In FourPro, the dashboards are the views you build in your Control Tower.
What is OData?
OData, the Open Data Protocol, is an open standard for sharing data over the web. FourPro’s analytics service uses it to deliver your operational data, ready-modelled for logistics, so there are no exports to run and no integrations to build.
What is MCP?
MCP, the Model Context Protocol, is an open standard for connecting AI assistants and agents to business systems. Through MCP, a Copilot agent built in Microsoft Copilot Studio, or any other AI agent that supports MCP, can look up your operational data in FourPro and answer questions in plain language – using only the data and permissions you allow.
Can we use a different AI agent than Copilot?
Yes. FourPro works with any AI agent that supports MCP, for example agents built on Claude or OpenAI. Whichever agent you use, it only gets the data and permissions you allow.
Can Copilot or other AI agents change anything in FourPro?
Not through MCP. Other parts of the product may use AI to make optimizations, but you are always in control and decide what an AI engine is allowed to do.
Who can see our data?
You decide. Customers and vendors only see the dashboards you share with them, and only their own data. Power BI, Excel and AI agents such as Copilot connect with access that you set up, so they only get the data you allow.
Kristiansund Base
“The system shares information with our customers and suppliers in real time. […] We have had a great journey from Excel sheets towards Industry 4.0.”
Vibeke WeisethCEO, Kristiansund Base- 22%faster vessel turnaround
- 63%less administrative communication
See it on your own data
One data model behind your Control Towers, your Power BI reports and your AI agents. In a demo we show you how it works with the systems you already run.