# Technology

> What Narrate builds with. Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, Tableau, data platforms, Google Workspace, WordPress and apps. Also AI harnesses, small language models…

Source: https://narrate.works/how-we-work/technology
Language: English (Nederlands: https://narrate.works/hoe-we-werken/technologie)
Publisher: Narrate (Narrate B.V.), https://narrate.works

Measuring and telling impact takes good technology. Here you see what we build with. The technology serves the work: what counts is what you learn and show with it.

## Data and dashboards

### Power BI

We build dashboards in Power BI on your own data. So you see your impact next to your other figures.

We used it for Dopper, StoryConnect, Emma and the OBA. For Dopper we built an impact dashboard on their impact framework.

Services, forms and examples

Service: [Implementation & delivery](https://narrate.works/solutions/implementation), [Monitoring and evaluation](https://narrate.works/solutions/monitoring-and-evaluation)

Makes: [Impact dashboard](https://narrate.works/keywords#impactdashboard)

Cases: [Impact & Insights team for a metropolitan library network](https://narrate.works/cases/amsterdam-library-impact-insights)

### Microsoft Fabric

We bring data from separate sources together in Microsoft Fabric. Then your impact figures sit in one place. Microsoft Fabric is not the same as Fabrik, our own platform.

We used it for Dopper, StoryConnect, Emma and the OBA.

Services, forms and examples

Service: [Implementation & delivery](https://narrate.works/solutions/implementation)

Makes: [Online data environment](https://narrate.works/keywords#data-omgeving), [Impact dashboard](https://narrate.works/keywords#impactdashboard)

Cases: [Impact & Insights team for a metropolitan library network](https://narrate.works/cases/amsterdam-library-impact-insights)

### Tableau and Salesforce Einstein

If your organisation works in Salesforce, we build your impact dashboards in Tableau. Einstein, the AI in Salesforce, helps spot patterns in that data.

We used it for StoryConnect.

Services, forms and examples

Service: [Implementation & delivery](https://narrate.works/solutions/implementation), [Monitoring and evaluation](https://narrate.works/solutions/monitoring-and-evaluation)

Makes: [Impact dashboard](https://narrate.works/keywords#impactdashboard)

### Google Data Studio (Looker Studio)

We build dashboards in Looker Studio, the new name of Google Data Studio. It is free and works well with Google Sheets and forms.

We used it for Impact Hub Amsterdam, Impact Hub Global, Dopper, StoryConnect and the Corona werkgeluk monitor.

Services, forms and examples

Service: [Implementation & delivery](https://narrate.works/solutions/implementation), [Monitoring and evaluation](https://narrate.works/solutions/monitoring-and-evaluation)

Makes: [Impact dashboard](https://narrate.works/keywords#impactdashboard)

Cases: [Impact Hub Amsterdam and the global network: resident impact expert](https://narrate.works/cases/impact-hub-amsterdam)

### Ecochain (life cycle assessment)

We make life cycle assessments with Ecochain software. So you see the environmental impact of a product, from raw material to waste.

We did this for BYBORRE, Willicroft and Dopper.

Services, forms and examples

Service: [Monitoring and evaluation](https://narrate.works/solutions/monitoring-and-evaluation), [Evaluations](https://narrate.works/solutions/evaluation)

Makes: [Life cycle assessment (LCA)](https://narrate.works/keywords#lca)

Cases: [Five years of impact with Willicroft](https://narrate.works/cases/willicroft)

### Data platforms

We set up an online data environment: a database, the links into it and a dashboard on top. So you collect once and use it often.

Services, forms and examples

Service: [Implementation & delivery](https://narrate.works/solutions/implementation), [Monitoring and evaluation](https://narrate.works/solutions/monitoring-and-evaluation)

Makes: [Online data environment](https://narrate.works/keywords#data-omgeving), [Impact dashboard](https://narrate.works/keywords#impactdashboard)

Cases: [The Green Village: 12.5 years of impact in one story](https://narrate.works/cases/the-green-village-12-5-years)

Articles: [The myth of clean data](https://narrate.works/resources-and-insights/myth-of-clean-data), [Collecting data without drowning in it](https://narrate.works/resources-and-insights/data-collection-without-overwhelm)

## Workplace and web

### LimeSurvey and Typeform

We set up surveys people like to fill in, and connect them to your dashboard. LimeSurvey when you want to keep data in your own hands, Typeform when it mostly has to feel easy.

We used LimeSurvey for StoryConnect and Typeform for Impact Hub Amsterdam.

Services, forms and examples

Service: [Implementation & delivery](https://narrate.works/solutions/implementation), [Monitoring and evaluation](https://narrate.works/solutions/monitoring-and-evaluation)

Makes: [Baseline study](https://narrate.works/keywords#nulmeting), [Impact measurement](https://narrate.works/keywords#effectmeting)

Cases: [Impact Hub Amsterdam and the global network: resident impact expert](https://narrate.works/cases/impact-hub-amsterdam)

Articles: [The myth of clean data](https://narrate.works/resources-and-insights/myth-of-clean-data), [Your funder asks for results. Where do you start?](https://narrate.works/resources-and-insights/funder-asks-for-results), [Collecting data without drowning in it](https://narrate.works/resources-and-insights/data-collection-without-overwhelm)

### Google Workspace

We set up forms, sheets and shared folders, so your team collects data where it already works.

We work in it ourselves every day.

Services, forms and examples

Service: [Teams and workflows](https://narrate.works/solutions/teams-and-workflows), [Implementation & delivery](https://narrate.works/solutions/implementation)

### WordPress

We put your impact story on your own WordPress site, with pages you can keep up to date yourself.

Services, forms and examples

Service: [Impact stories & reports](https://narrate.works/solutions/impact-stories), [Implementation & delivery](https://narrate.works/solutions/implementation)

Makes: [Impact story](https://narrate.works/keywords#impactverhaal)

## Apps and platforms

### App development

We build web apps in React and TypeScript, with a database of their own. From first prototype to a platform that runs every day.

We build Fabrik, our own platform, and this site ourselves.

Services, forms and examples

Service: [Advice, design & prototype](https://narrate.works/solutions/consultancy), [Implementation & delivery](https://narrate.works/solutions/implementation)

Makes: [Prototype](https://narrate.works/keywords#prototype), [Online data environment](https://narrate.works/keywords#data-omgeving)

Cases: [The Green Village: 12.5 years of impact in one story](https://narrate.works/cases/the-green-village-12-5-years)

## AI and knowledge models

### AI harness engineering

We let AI agents work within fixed rules: tests, checks, sources and a person who has the final say.

This site and Fabrik are kept up this way.

Services, forms and examples

Service: [Teams and workflows](https://narrate.works/solutions/teams-and-workflows), [Implementation & delivery](https://narrate.works/solutions/implementation), [Advice, design & prototype](https://narrate.works/solutions/consultancy)

### Language models with evidence

A language model reads your sources and pulls out figures and claims. We keep only what a literal quote in the source backs up.

Services, forms and examples

Service: [Monitoring and evaluation](https://narrate.works/solutions/monitoring-and-evaluation), [Evaluations](https://narrate.works/solutions/evaluation)

Makes: [Impact measurement](https://narrate.works/keywords#effectmeting), [Online data environment](https://narrate.works/keywords#data-omgeving)

Cases: [The Green Village: 12.5 years of impact in one story](https://narrate.works/cases/the-green-village-12-5-years)

Articles: [Is an AI answer a source?](https://narrate.works/resources-and-insights/is-an-ai-answer-a-source), [Using AI for your report without losing your sources](https://narrate.works/resources-and-insights/using-ai-for-your-report)

### Small language models (SLM)

A small language model runs on your own server and learns your own terms. Your data then stays inside.

In Fabrik we make the training data for such models.

Services, forms and examples

Service: [Implementation & delivery](https://narrate.works/solutions/implementation), [Advice, design & prototype](https://narrate.works/solutions/consultancy)

### Ontology development

We record terms and how they relate in open standards such as RDF and SKOS. Then data from different sources speaks the same language.

Fabrik works with the same knowledge models.

Services, forms and examples

Service: [Advice, design & prototype](https://narrate.works/solutions/consultancy), [Implementation & delivery](https://narrate.works/solutions/implementation)

Makes: [Impact framework](https://narrate.works/keywords#impactraamwerk), [Indicator set](https://narrate.works/keywords#indicatoren), [Online data environment](https://narrate.works/keywords#data-omgeving)

Cases: [The Green Village: 12.5 years of impact in one story](https://narrate.works/cases/the-green-village-12-5-years)

Want to know how we work together? See the services. [To the services](https://narrate.works/solutions)

Want to see what we make? See the keywords. [To the keywords](https://narrate.works/keywords)
