LaMotheo Solutions, Roodepoort, since 2018
Your data already has the answer.
We build the pipelines and dashboards that surface it, train your team to find the next one, and keep the IT underneath running: Microsoft 365, domains and day-to-day support. Just one spreadsheet? Run it through our new Drive-through Analytics.
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What do you need help with?
Pick the one closest to your problem. Each comes with a free first conversation.
Data engineering and dashboards
Your numbers in one trusted place, and Power BI or Excel reports people actually use.
- System integration, ETL and data migration
- Database and warehouse design (SQL Server, MySQL, Azure)
- Power BI reports, models, refresh and row-level security
- Data mining, analysis and month-end packs
- Data quality rules and reconciliation
Drive-through Analytics
Drop in a spreadsheet and see what is selling, what is slipping and what to fix, in minutes. The first part of every report is free.
- Upload an Excel or CSV file: sales, stock, school fees or payroll
- Free preview: data health, headline numbers, the trend and your top performers
- Full report: segments, unusual items, what drives the result, a 3-month forecast and an action plan
- Pay per report, no subscription; packs for branches, schools and bookkeepers
- Files deleted after 7 days, and you choose AI wording or numbers only
- Book a LaMotheo analyst to walk you through it
Excel, Power BI and AI training
Small live classes and self-paced lessons that stick, from first formula to data models and AI at work.
- Excel and Power BI at Novice, Intermediate and Advanced
- AI for Business: 24 short lessons, the first four free
- Classes of twelve or fewer, live online or in Roodepoort
- Private classes on your own files, for six or more
- Certificates anyone can verify online
Microsoft 365 licence administration
The right licences for each person, nobody paying for empty seats, and staff set up on day one.
- Choosing the right plan for each person (Business Basic, Standard, Premium and more)
- Buying, assigning and renewing licences
- New starters and leavers: accounts, mailboxes, shared mailboxes, licences reclaimed
- Licence reviews that stop paying for unused seats
- Security basics: multi-factor sign-in, admin roles, Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive set-up
- Moving email to Exchange Online from Gmail or cPanel
Domain management
Your web address and business email registered, renewed on time and pointed at the right place.
- Registering .co.za, .com, .africa and other domains
- Transfers between registrars without downtime
- Renewals tracked so nothing lapses
- DNS records for websites, Microsoft 365 and other services
- Email deliverability: SPF, DKIM and DMARC, so your mail stops landing in spam
- SSL certificates and hosting coordination
General IT services
Day-to-day IT handled: laptops, networks, backups, security and a person to call when something breaks.
- Help desk support, remote and on-site in Gauteng
- Laptop and desktop set-up, updates and antivirus
- Network, Wi-Fi and printer set-up
- Backups you have tested, not just switched on
- Security basics and staff awareness
- Buying advice and an up-to-date register of your equipment
New LaMotheo Drive-through Analytics
Drop your spreadsheet. Drive off with answers.
No project, no waiting. Upload a sales, stock, school fees or payroll file and within minutes see what is selling, what is slipping and what to fix. The first 40% of every report is free.
- 1OrderDrop in an Excel or CSV file
- 2Window 1Free preview in minutes
- 3Window 2Collect the full report
- 4Sit-downWalk through it with an analyst
- No sign-up for the sample
- Files deleted after 7 days
- You choose AI or numbers only
One partner, top to bottom
From the laptop on your desk to the dashboard in your board pack.
Most businesses juggle a separate person for each layer. When the report is wrong, nobody knows if it is the data, the licence, the mailbox or the network. We look after every layer, so there is one person to call and nothing falls between the cracks.
Hover or tap a layer to see what sits in it.
See every serviceTraining
Learn it properly, in a class of twelve or online.
Live classes in Roodepoort and online, plus self-paced lessons in the LaMotheo Training app. Dates and seats below are live.
Learn at your own pace
AI for BusinessTwenty-four short lessons on using AI well at work. R950 Excel NoviceEveryday Excel for data entry, shareable formatting and dependable formulas. from R950 Power BI NoviceBuild and publish a first working report from a real file. from R950Lessons offline, class reminders and your course group chat, on Android and iPhone. No app store needed.
AI news
What changed in AI this week.
A round-up from South African, African and international tech news, refreshed through the day.
How we work
Three steps, no surprises.
- 1
A conversation
A free half-hour call. You describe the problem; we tell you what usually causes it and roughly what it takes to fix.
- 2
A written scope
The work, what we need from you, the cost and what "finished" means, signed before anything starts.
- 3
The work, then the handover
Built, tested on your real data or systems, documented, and shown to the people who will use it.
LaMotheo streamlined our data processes. Decisions that used to wait for month-end now happen in the meeting.
The Power BI training changed how our team looks at the business. People who avoided reports are now building them.
Responsive, practical and honest about what we did and did not need. That is rarer than it should be.
Named references available on request.
Tell us what is not working.
Data that does not add up, licences nobody can explain, a domain about to lapse, a team that needs training. One call covers it. In a hurry? Run a spreadsheet through Drive-through Analytics and see the first answers in minutes.