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Business intelligence (BI) consulting services
Use your data to make smarter, more confident decisions with Pythian’s business intelligence (BI) consulting services. We give you a clear view of your business, helping you spot trends, optimize workflows, and improve operational efficiency. Understand your customers and market to increase profits and gain a competitive edge.
Pythian has the top business intelligence consultants
Our Business intelligence and analytics services help you understand your business performance. We turn your data into clear reports and dashboards so you can make better decisions and work more efficiently.
Reduction in operating costs
By having our team manage your data platform, you can free your team to focus on other important business priorities while cutting operating costs by up to 20%.
Global customers
As a global service provider, we serve customers across the world—many who have been with us for decades.
Our BI consultants deliver end-to-end data services
We work with customers to understand their strategic goals, build a robust data foundation, and create intuitive dashboards and reports. Our BI expertise ensures that every decision you make is backed by a clear, accurate, and comprehensive view of your data.
Data ingestion
De-silo your data into a usable, centralized asset. Pythian’s business intelligence consultants collect data from various sources, such as databases, APIs, and cloud applications into a single, unified data warehouse or data lake.
Data transformation
Our BI consultants transform the raw data into a structured format suitable for analysis; data cleaning, data type conversion, and data enrichment, ensuring data quality before it's loaded into the data warehouse.
Data warehouse loading
Our business intelligence consultanting services securely and efficiently load the transformed data into the central data warehouse or data lake, making sure the data is accessible for reporting and analysis.
Logical data model
Bridge the gap between complex, technical data structures and the business users who need to analyze that data to make decisions.
Our BI consultants translate technical table and column names into intuitive business terms, making it easier for non-technical users to build reports and dashboards without needing to understand the underlying data structure.
Reporting and data visualization
Pythian’s business intelligence consultants visualize your data, connecting the semantic layer to retrieve data and render it as interactive dashboards and reports.
We work directly with you to ensure the user experience is smooth for data exploration.
Access control and security
Pythian’s business intelligence consultants manage user authentication and authorization across all the BI components, ensuring that users can only access the data and features they have permission to, maintaining data security and compliance.
Protect sensitive information, ensure regulatory compliance, and build trust in your business data.
Openforce enhances data-driven decision-making with improved reporting
Facing challenges with siloed data and manual reporting, Openforce partnered with Pythian to build a modern data platform. Our BI consultants automated data integration and transformed their data into a single source of truth, empowering their teams with clear, accurate reports to make faster, more confident business decisions.
Make smarter decisions with Pythian's business intelligence (BI) services
Our business intelligence (BI) services turn your raw data into clear reports on key performance metrics, customer behavior, and market trends. These reports help you make confident decisions to improve operations, increase profit, and gain an edge on your competition.
Build trust in business data
Break down data silos. Gain a holistic, 360-degree view of the business, allowing teams to gain insights by combining data from different departments.
When users know that the data they are seeing is accurate and secure, it builds trust in the BI platform and encourages wider adoption.
Faster decision making
Make faster, more confident decisions based on reliable information rather than guesswork or intuition.
Build more robust and realistic strategies—drive expansion, launch new products, or penetrate new markets using data to inform short-term and long-term business decisions.
Increase operational efficiency
By providing real-time visibility into key operational metrics, build BI dashboards to identify bottlenecks, optimize workflows, and improve resource allocation. Be proactive, make adjustments that streamline processes and reduce costs with real-time data.
Increase profitability
Better understand customer journeys, preferences, and pain points with business intelligence.
Utilize BI to optimize pricing, identify new sales opportunities, and run more effective marketing campaigns, directly impacting the bottom line.
Guaranteed regulatory compliance
Protect personally identifiable information (PII), avoid severe fines and legal penalties.
Many industries are governed by strict data privacy and security regulations (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA, CCPA). Access control within a BI service is crucial for adhering to these rules.
Protect sensitive data
Implement granular security to protect your business intelligence.
BI dashboards often contain highly confidential information, such as financial performance, customer sales data, employee salaries, and strategic plans. Without robust access control, this sensitive information could be exposed to unauthorized individuals, leading to data breaches and misuse.
No matter where your data resides, Pythian will help you build the right data pipelines
Pythian supports over 45 technologies—from data platforms, data warehouses, data lakes, databases to cloud.
Oracle analytics services
Maximize your Oracle investments with our team of certified consultants. We provide solutions that evolve with your business, ensuring you gain the most value from your data whether it's on-premise or in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
Tableau analytics services
Transform the way you use data to solve problems. Our experts help you deploy Tableau in the cloud or on-premises, connecting all your data to create powerful visual stories and build a scalable data culture across your organization.
PowerBI analytics services
Turn your data into a competitive advantage with Microsoft PowerBI. As a Microsoft Gold Partner, we help you establish strong processes for collecting and storing data to build intuitive, interactive dashboards that answer your most pressing business questions.
BigQuery and Looker services
Leverage the power of Google's advanced infrastructure for fast, scalable, serverless analytics. As a trusted Google Cloud Premier Partner, our certified experts will help you harness BigQuery and Looker to accelerate your time to value and drive innovation.
"Just want to say a huge thank you to everyone who worked so hard on this project. The value of having access to this data is absolutely huge, not just for the time it saves but for the larger business level insights we can get from it. Thank you so much!”
Amy Long
Vice President of Sales at Openforce
Pythian continuously improves your BI solutions to deliver more value and higher ROI
We work with you to build a business intelligence (BI) platform that serves your business strategy. Our BI consultants guide you from the initial plan to a finished platform that your teams will use every day.
Discovery and BI strategy
Our business intelligence consultants need to deeply understand your unique challenges and future-state goals. Together, we’ll define key performance indicators that will be tracked to measure success.
Data readiness assessment
Our BI consultants evaluate your existing data infrastructure, data quality, and data sources to identify gaps and develop a strategic roadmap.
Build data pipelines
We will create automated workflows to extract data from various sources (CRM, ERP, spreadsheets, etc.). Pythian’s business intelligence consultants clean, transform, and structure the data to ensure it is accurate and consistent, loading the data into a centralized, modern data repository that is optimized for analysis and reporting.
Develop BI dashboards and reports
Pythian will develop interactive dashboards and reports using leading BI tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI, Qlik). We will work together to ensure the business intelligence (BI) reports and dashboards provide the insights users need and are easy to use.
BI deployment and training
Pythian’s business intelligence consultants will deploy BI dashboards and reports in your production environment. We ensure end-users and power-users are confident and equipped with training on how to effectively use the new BI platform, ensuring high adoption rates.
On-going support
Pythian creates documentation that details the data sources, metrics, and how to use the dashboards to equip your teams with resources. Our teams continuously monitor the dashboards and underlying data pipelines to ensure they are performing efficiently. You will receive ongoing support to fix any issues, update data sources, and adapt to changing business needs.
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See how our customers are winning with business intelligence
Learn how clear reports, interactive dashboards, and a comprehensive view of your data can transform your business. Explore real-world success stories below.
Openforce Enhances Data-Driven Decision-Making with Improved Reporting
Facing challenges with siloed data and manual reporting, Openforce partnered with Pythian to build a modern data platform. Our BI consultants automated data integration and transformed their data into a single source of truth, empowering their teams with clear, accurate reports to make faster, more confident business decisions.
Midwest Grocer Turns Shopper Data Into Satisfied Customers
A leading supermarket retailer wanted to use its robust customer data to drive stronger decision-making. Pythian's data engineering team built the scalable data foundation needed to support a machine-learning model that could predict shopper behavior, enabling more accurate product recommendations.
Commodities Firm Optimizes Bid Prices on High-Volume Transactions with Machine Learning
A leading commodities trading firm needed to optimize its bidding strategy but lacked the infrastructure for real-time analysis. Pythian’s data engineers designed and built the data pipelines required to support a machine learning model that delivered real-time bid pricing intelligence.
Frequently asked questions (FAQ) about business intelligence services
Business intelligence consulting services help you understand your business performance by turning your data into clear reports and dashboards. A BI consultant works with you to understand strategic goals, build a robust data foundation, and create intuitive dashboards that provide a clear, accurate, and comprehensive view of your data.
Business intelligence (BI) services focus on providing a clear view of your business by turning raw data into reports on key performance metrics, customer behavior, and market trends. Business intelligence and data analytics services often work together, but advanced analytics goes a step further to provide more predictive and prescriptive insights.
A business intelligence consultant manages the end-to-end process of turning your raw data into a usable, centralized asset. This includes collecting data from various sources, transforming it into a structured format for analysis, loading it into a data warehouse, and rendering it as interactive dashboards and reports. They also manage user access and security to protect sensitive information.
These services improve performance by helping you make faster, more confident decisions based on reliable information rather than guesswork. By providing real-time visibility into key metrics, you can identify bottlenecks, optimize workflows, and improve resource allocation to increase operational efficiency and profitability.
A typical business intelligence consulting engagement starts with a discovery and strategy phase to define key performance indicators. This is followed by a data readiness assessment, building automated data pipelines, and developing interactive dashboards and reports. The process concludes with deployment, user training, and ongoing support to ensure the BI platform adapts to your changing business needs.