Case Study: Cotton Collection achieves real-time retail insights and faster speed-to-market with Microsoft Power BI

Cloud is the New Fashion for Cotton Collection Sri Lanka’s Première Fashion Retailer

Cotton Collection, Sri Lanka’s premier fashion retailer, faced challenges turning growing volumes of sales and logistics data into timely, actionable decisions while also needing better mobile, cross‑team collaboration. To modernize operations and boost productivity, Cotton Collection adopted Microsoft cloud solutions — including Office 365, Dynamics NAV, Azure — and Microsoft Power BI for business intelligence.

Using Microsoft Power BI integrated with Dynamics ERP and Office 365 collaboration tools (Skype for Business, OneDrive and Yammer), Cotton Collection deployed interactive dashboards and real‑time reporting that centralized insights across stores and teams. The Microsoft Power BI solution drove sales planning and forecasting from live dashboards, helped optimize pricing, product placement and pack bonuses, provided 1 TB per user OneDrive storage, and increased employee effectiveness and speed to market, shortening decision cycles and improving operational agility.

Cotton Collection

Niloufer Anverally

Founder