Applied Data

Applied Data & Analytics

Harness your data to fuel digital transformation.

Every organization creates and captures data. Some more than others but it can all be valuable. The challenge is knowing what you have, keeping it organized and secure, and understanding how to gather meaningful insights that will inspire your team to open new pathways to value.

Our knowledgeable team of data engineers, scientists, and analysts will illuminate the way forward, helping you grow revenue and reduce costs by generating relevant and timely intelligence from your existing data assets. We do this faster and with more care, using an agile approach and world class AI-driven platforms like Microsoft Azure and Power BI to accelerate your ability to recognize patterns, extract knowledge, and make more informed decisions.

What we do

Data Strategy & Governance

Accurately define the policies, standards, architecture, and processes needed to maintain and secure your data. We’ll help you outline the right data strategy to reach your organization’s goals – whether you’re looking to develop new products, drive organizational efficiencies, keep your customers longer, create a culture of analytics, or drive new growth.

Core Capabilities:

  • Data governance
  • Data strategy and roadmap
  • Data architecture

Business Intelligence & Reporting

Map your path forward, measure performance, amplify reporting efforts, nurture your competitive advantage, and scale it all to your organizational requirements using a comprehensive and practical approach. Our team of senior consultants will audit your current capabilities, perform a gap analysis, then create a goals-focused roadmap and long-term maturity model, while advising on tool and process improvements. As a certified Microsoft Gold Partner, we have in-depth expertise with all their business intelligence technologies.

Core Capabilities:

  • BI strategy, health checks & roadmap
  • BI governance & Master Data Management
  • Microsoft Power BI development
  • Microsoft Azure Data Warehouse/Synapse development

Data Engineering

Modern data platforms are designed to help you harness the power of data to fuel digital transformation and address the complexity of information being gathered today – but it’s never that straightforward. It’s a daunting task to clean, structure, and model large amounts of data to enable your organization to make use of it. Our experts can rehost, refactor, replace, and rebuild your data to inform stronger insights, and meet your organization’s data-driven goals.

Core Capabilities:

  • Workload optimization
  • Data ingestion
  • Pipeline building
  • Data migration and modernization

Dashboards & Visualizations

Tell a story with data that empowers those who consume it through intuitive dashboards, invaluable reporting, and custom visualizations. We create applications to host reports, dashboards, and self-serve requirements, while putting the power presenting data in a compelling way in your hands. By working with you to build tailored analytics solutions specific to your unique strategies and data architecture, you will be able to transform complex data models into easy-to-understand performance metrics, visuals, and insights.

Core Capabilities:

  • Data visualization
  • Business analysis
  • User research and design
  • Microsoft Power BI

Advanced Analytics

Use advanced and predictive analytics to recognize meaningful patterns, segments, and correlations and help you make more informed, data-driven decisions. From there, you will be better equipped to identify essential data, analyze and solution, and use predictive outputs to help you plan, manage, and pivot as needed on mission critical functions.

Core Capabilities:

  • Predictive analytics
  • Microsoft Azure Synapse, Purview, Data Lake and Data Factory
  • Databricks

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

Use artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to operationalize insights, elevate productivity, replace existing processes, and find new value. We undertake an in-depth review of all your available data, then iteratively develop AI and ML strategies and models, training algorithms, to streamline the way they work for you. From design and implementation through to deployment and stabilization, we will guide you through this ever-evolving landscape.

Core Capabilities:

  • AI strategy and assessments
  • Proof of concepts
  • Azure Machine Learning and Cognitive Services
  • Azure Databricks and MLflow
  • AI and ML operationalization

Internet of Things (IoT)

Harness the endless possibilities of the Internet of Things (IoT) and smart systems in key industries. As the universe of connected devices expands, so does the volume and variety of data being ingested and processed for intelligent analysis and action. Predictive maintenance, asset tracking, and fleet management all need to be driven from a secure and scalable cloud platform. We leverage Azure IoT platform and tools, while combining the IoT leadership and diversity of data skills required to bring it all together in meaningful ways for your organization.

Core Capabilities:

  • IoT planning and engineering
  • IoT application development
  • Azure IoT Hub
  • Digital twins
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