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Business intelligence consulting services

About Itransition

IT consulting and software engineering services since 1998

15+ years in business intelligence and data analytics

Certified BI solution architects, data engineers, and security experts

Hands-on experience in creating custom, platform-based, and embedded BI solutions

ISO 27001- and ISO 9001-certified to ensure service quality and customer data safety

Acknowledged by Clutch, Gartner, and Forrester as one of the top custom software development and consulting firms

Business intelligence use cases

As a full-service business intelligence provider, Itransition has extensive experience delivering solutions for diverse industries and operational areas, enabling business users to derive meaningful insights from complex data sets.

We help implement BI systems across all levels of the organization, enabling companies to centralize multi-formatted data from various business divisions, departments, and units to analyze key performance indicators on financial, marketing, sales, and employee performance, quickly identify operational bottlenecks, and improve enterprise-wide collaboration.

Enterprise BI

Itransition provides assistance in implementing operational BI solutions, enabling companies to take advantage of up-to-the-minute data to improve business responsiveness to rapidly changing events. We help users derive real-time insights from raw data, accelerating decision-making, facilitating rapid issue detection, and preventing business downtime.

Operational BI

Our team helps financial services companies and financial teams track key performance indicators, such as operating cash flow, current ratio, net profit margin, and working capital, immediately identify fraudulent activity, benchmark against competitors, and spot optimization opportunities to achieve better business outcomes.

Finance BI

We assist marketing organizations and teams with implementing business intelligence solutions to support marketing data analysis and decision-making to create impactful marketing campaigns, improve the customer experience, and optimize marketing spend.

Marketing BI

We create secure healthcare BI software solutions that help organizations analyze patient, operational, and research data to identify health trends, improve patient care, enhance resource allocation, and optimize staffing levels.

Healthcare BI

Our specialists deliver BI consulting services to manufacturing organizations to help them identify demand drivers, plan production activities, analyze equipment performance and utilization, and conduct defect root cause analysis.

Manufacturing BI
Retail & ecommerce BI

Construction BI

Our team helps construction companies get insights into resource utilization, contractor and subcontractor performance, labor costs, and inventory management with tailor-made BI solutions. Equipped with these insights, construction businesses can reduce material waste, minimize equipment downtime, lower incident rate, and increase the number of successfully passed inspections.

Construction BI

Insurance BI

We help create robust insurance BI solutions that assist companies with the timely detection of fraudulent activity, claims analysis, and monitoring of market trends, regulatory changes, and customer expectations. With tailored BI solutions, insurers can discover new business opportunities, develop personalized upselling/cross-selling strategies, and improve the accuracy of underwriting decisions.

Insurance BI

Real estate BI

Our BI team implements solutions to help real estate companies analyze property value, price trends, rental rates, sales, brokerage agents’ performance, and the effectiveness of marketing campaigns, enabling data-driven investment, pricing, and portfolio management decision-making.

Real estate BI

Education & eLearning BI

We help educational institutions implement scalable BI solutions to monitor student enrollment trends, attendance, engagement, knowledge gaps, and academic performance. With BI software, they can also gain insights into dropout rates, budget spending, and demand fluctuations for specific courses, as well as forecast the resources required to improve educational processes and ease the burden on teaching personnel.

Education & eLearning BI

Automotive BI

We provide BI consulting services to help automotive companies analyze production, sales, and customer data to ensure the quality, availability, and alignment of their products with current market trends and consumer preferences.

Automotive BI

Professional services BI

We deliver BI consulting services, enabling professional services companies to track critical operational and project-related metrics and KPIs, including project progress, staff performance, and client satisfaction, to reduce employee turnover, prevent client churn, and forecast service demand.

Professional services BI

Our business intelligence consulting services

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BI strategy development

We create a detailed blueprint for implementing or optimizing your business intelligence platform in line with your broader business strategy. We identify BI software use cases, define functional and non-functional requirements for the solution, and select the optimal BI technology and implementation framework to support your business decisions.

We help you deploy data analytics solutions featuring descriptive, diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive analytics capabilities to support tactical and strategic decision-making. Our BI and business analytics consultants help select an optimal data analytics methodology and technology for you, deliver data analytics architecture components, and fine-tune the data analytics solution post-launch on demand.

We help you set up a robust enterprise data warehouse to unify disparate structured and unstructured data in a single source of truth, breaking down data silos and making the data available for further analytical and reporting purposes. We provide full-range DWH services, from building ETL/ELT pipelines and designing a data warehouse environment to integrating a centralized data repository and respective data marts with the broader data analytics ecosystem and performing post-implementation performance tuning and optimization.

We help implement custom-made and platform-based data visualization solutions, turning spreadsheets into engaging and user-friendly reports and dashboards and ensuring their seamless interoperability with the company’s IT infrastructure.

BI support & optimization

We help ensure your BI solution operates in accordance with your evolving business needs, providing troubleshooting support and modernizing the system in response to specific requirements, such as configuring additional reports, adding new data sources or functionality, replatforming the solution, and migrating it to a new environment.

Data governance

We assist you with defining internal policies and standards to regulate data collection, storage, processing, sharing, and disposal. By setting up robust data governance processes and workflows, we help you manage vast amounts of information, maintaining high data quality and ensuring data security and compliance.

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Our featured projects

BI consulting for a CX company

3x

cost savings

BI consulting for a CX company

Itransition provided advisory support to a global CX company to optimize its Power BI-based analytics solution, speed up data loading, and reduce operational costs.

BI consulting & engineering for a commercial bank

BI consulting & engineering for a commercial bank

Itransition developed a comprehensive BI strategy and prepared tailored recommendations for implementing a suitable banking BI solution.

Benchmark dashboards for ad campaign optimization

8x

benchmark achievement improvement

Benchmark dashboards for ad campaign optimization

Itransition’s team delivered user-friendly solutions featuring interactive dashboards to streamline ad campaign performance monitoring and forecasting for a digital media company.

Power BI implementation & training

2x

faster market project delivery

Power BI implementation & training

Itransition developed a Power BI-based solution and conducted employee training for an analytics and research consulting company to automate and improve their data processing and presentation processes.

Our clients say

We found collaboration with Itransition straightforward and effortless as the team showcased a high degree of personal accountability and creativity, from the start positioning themselves as Power BI consultants and going beyond our expectations. The team's professionalism, expertise, and attention to detail were impressive and resulted in an excellent product, and we would recommend Itransition to anyone looking for true Power BI experts.

Dr. Syed Shah

Executive Vice President Clinical & Strategic Operations Transformative Pharmaceutical Solutions

We recommend Itransition as a competent and reliable technology consultant and partner, capable of unlocking the full potential of your data management solution, while aligning it with your specific needs. They are able to dive deep into your business-critical project, no matter how challenging and time-sensitive, and quickly uncover and resolve issues of any complexity, demonstrating a highly professional approach and true dedication to project success.

Vamsi Behara

Data Platform Director
5CA

Itransition’s team was very involved in understanding our problems and responsive to our needs. They helped us optimize the ETL process and improve Tableau dashboards performance as well as developed the recommendations for us on how to build a future-proof BI system. Thus, I’d definitely recommend Itransition as a smart and easy-to-go service provider to other companies looking for boosting their solutions built around data.

Vadym Boikov

Head of Data Science
Tasq.ai

Itransition’s team provided us with full-cycle development services, including technology consulting, UX/UI design, development, and QA. [...] The solution Itransition delivered helped us further raise the bar in the level of services we provide to our clients and allowed us to significantly increase their satisfaction and bolster our competitiveness on the market. While working on the project, Itransition’s team has proven to be responsible and experienced professionals, often acting as a valuable technology consultant, and demonstrated a highly creative, autonomous, and proactive approach.

Doug Yasso

Vice President
Data Design Consulting, Inc.

We are extremely happy with the quality of Itransition’s work, as evidenced by the reduction in time to render the report from 60 to 1-2 seconds! It took the Itransition team only 2 weeks to optimize the embedded Power BI and enhance its maintainability. We highly recommend Itransition as an expert and reliable partner, always dedicated to delivering the best-suited solutions for their clients. We appreciate the comprehensive and professional approach Itransition’s BI team takes.

John Joseph

Head of Technology
Solomon Coyle

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Technologies we work with

Data integration & quality management

Cloud platforms
  • AWS Glue
  • Azure Data Factory
  • Azure Stream Analytics
  • Databricks
ETL/ELT platforms
  • Talend
  • Informatica PowerCenter
  • Apache NiFi
  • Pentaho
Real-time data integration
  • Azure Event Hubs
  • Striim
  • SnapLogic
Data quality management
  • IBM InfoSphere
  • MuleSoft Anypoint Platform
  • Oracle Data Integrator

Data storage

Object storage
  • Amazon S3
  • Azure Blob Storage
  • Google Cloud Storage
  • IBM Cloud Object Storage
Relational databases
  • Amazon RDS
  • Azure SQL Database
  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • Google BigQuery
  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • Oracle
NoSQL databases
  • Amazon DynamoDB
  • Azure Cosmos DB
  • Neo4j
Analytical platforms
  • Amazon Redshift
  • Azure Synapse Analytics
  • Google BigQuery
  • Teradata

Data analytics

Big data analytics platforms
Amazon

Amazon Athena

Amazon Redshift

AWS Glue DataBrew

Microsoft Azure

Azure Synapse Analytics

Azure Data Explorer

Google Cloud

Google BigQuery

Google Cloud Dataprep

Cloudera

Cloudera Data Platform

Databricks

Databricks Unified Analytics Platform

Stream analytics tools
Amazon

Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics

AWS Lambda

Microsoft Azure

Azure Stream Analytics

Azure Event Hubs

Google Cloud

Google Cloud Dataflow

Pub/Sub

Apache

Apache Kafka

Apache Flink

Analysis & modeling services
Microsoft Azure

Azure Analysis Services

Azure Machine Learning Studio

Microsoft SQL Server

Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS)

Power BI

SAS

SAS Visual Analytics

SAS Enterprise Miner

IBM

IBM Cognos Analytics

IBM SPSS

Data visualization

Enterprise BI platforms
Amazon

Amazon Quicksight

Microsoft

Microsoft Power BI

Salesforce/ Tableau

Tableau

Qlik

QlikView

Qlik Sense

Google

Looker

Looker Studio

SAP

SAP Analytics Cloud

IBM

IBM Cognos Analytics

Libraries & tools for data visualization
Google

Google Charts

JavaScript libraries

D3.js

Chart.js

Highcharts

Open source platforms

Apache Superset

Plotly

Chartist.js

Python
  • ggplot

  • seaborn

  • bokeh

  • Altair

  • Matplotlib

  • Plotly

R

ggplot2

Shiny

JavaScript

Three.js

Vega-Lite

Platforms for creating reports & dashboards
Platforms
  • Datawrapper

  • Infogram

  • Metabase

  • Redash

Fusion Charts

Cloud solutions

Google Data Studio (Looker Studio)

Klipfolio

Zoho Analytics

BI integrations

Tableau Public

Microsoft Power BI Embedded

Data security management

Identity & access management
Amazon

AWS Cognito

AWS Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Microsoft Azure

Azure Active Directory

Azure Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)

Google Cloud

Google Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Encryption & key management
Amazon

AWS KMS

AWS CloudHSM

Microsoft Azure

Azure Key Vault

Azure Disk Encryption

Google Cloud

Google Cloud Key Management Service (KMS)

Network protection
Microsoft Azure

Azure Firewall

Azure VPN Gateway

Azure DDoS Protection

Amazon

AWS Network Firewall

AWS Shield (for DDoS protection)

Google Cloud

Google Cloud Armor

Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Firewall

Secrets & credential management
Amazon

AWS Secrets Manager

Parameter Store

Microsoft Azure

Azure Key Vault

HashiCorp

HashiCorp Vault

Terraform Cloud Secrets Management

Google Cloud

Google Secret Manager

International security standards
Regulatory requirements

GDPR

CCPA

HIPAA

Certifications

ISO 27001

SOC 2

Artificial intelligence & machine learning

Cloud AI/ML services
Amazon
  • Amazon SageMaker

  • Amazon Rekognition

  • Amazon Lex

  • AWS DeepLens

AWS Comprehend

Microsoft Azure
  • Azure Cognitive Services

  • Azure Machine Learning

  • Azure Applied AI Services

  • Azure Bot Service

Azure Form Recognizer

Google Cloud
  • Google AutoML

  • Google Dialogflow

  • Google Vision API

  • Google Cloud Speech-to-Text

Google Cloud Natural Language AI

Frameworks & libraries
Common libraries
  • TensorFlow

  • PyTorch

  • Scikit-learn

  • XGBoost

CatBoost

Python ecosystem

Keras

LightGBM

Statsmodels

Natural language processing

SpaCy

NLTK

Hugging Face Transformers

Graph neural networks

DGL (Deep Graph Library)

PyG (PyTorch Geometric)

Natural language processing & speech solutions
Microsoft Azure

Azure Language Understanding (LUIS)

Azure Text Analytics

Azure Speech Service

Amazon

Amazon Polly

Amazon Transcribe

Amazon Comprehend

Google Cloud

Google Cloud Natural Language AI

Google Cloud Speech-to-Text

Google Text-to-Speech

Our BI implementation process

1

Analysis

  • Business needs and goals elicitation and analysis
  • IT infrastructure and data source analysis
  • Existing data management practices and policies assessment
  • BI solution’s functional and non-functional requirements identification

2

BI architecture conceptualization

  • Building conceptual and logical data models
  • Developing policies and guidelines for data integration and quality management
  • Determining BI architecture components: a DWH, data marts, OLAP cubes, etc.
  • Selecting optimal tools and technologies

3

Project planning

  • Assembling a team
  • Estimating project costs, timeline, TCO, and ROI
  • Developing a risk mitigation strategy

4

UX/UI design & prototyping

  • Delivering the solution’s mockups, wireframes, and prototypes
  • Implementing user feedback

5

BI solution development

  • Setting up custom data integrations and ETL/ELT pipelines
  • Developing and customizing data warehousing and other storage solutions
  • Developing data visualization functionality
  • Establishing data security, including user access, data encryption, and authorization

6

Roll-out

  • Data quality, system security, and performance testing
  • Deploying the BI solution to the production environment
  • Monitoring BI solution performance

7

BI training & support

  • Providing system documentation to the client
  • Eliminating bugs and improving the system’s query performance and usability
  • Conducting end-user training sessions and creating educational content
  • Adding new functionality, BI dashboards, and data sources upon request

Value-adding BI software capabilities

Mobile BI

We develop and design mobile-friendly BI solutions and apps to provide instant access to real-time, high-quality business data via mobile devices.

Self-service BI

We implement self-service BI solutions equipped with AI-powered capabilities and intuitive user interfaces to allow non-technical users to manage data and conduct analyses with minimal reliance on IT teams.

Cloud BI

We help companies deploy and migrate to cloud BI systems to ensure greater system scalability, data availability, and team collaboration, allowing users to react quickly to market changes and maintain business agility.

Why choose Itransition as your BI consultant

Deep domain expertise

Having worked with clients across 20+ industries, we’ve developed a deep understanding of diverse business operations and industry standards to deliver solutions in line with applicable requirements and ensure companies gain a competitive edge in their field.

Extensive network of tech vendor partnerships

We have a diverse ecosystem of valued partners, including Microsoft and AWS, which allows us to leverage best-in-class technology and deliver vendor-agnostic solutions to companies of all sizes to achieve their business objectives.

Focused on security & compliance

Our in-house security experts implement data security mechanisms and processes to safeguard BI systems against cyber threats and data breaches and ensure compliance with HIPAA, GDPR, PCI DSS, AICPA, SOC 2, and other relevant regulations.

Dedicated to continuous innovation

Itransition has a company-wide R&D program and competency centers, with BI as one of its focus areas, encouraging its specialists to enhance their skills, earn new certifications, and explore innovative solutions and approaches to business intelligence.

Additional services we offer

Microsoft Power BI consulting

Microsoft Power BI consulting

Itransition’s Microsoft Power Platform experts help clients implement the Power BI platform and maximize its value as well as migrate from legacy systems to a fine-tuned Power BI solution.

Tableau consulting

We help companies unlock Tableau’s advanced analytics capabilities, providing holistic consulting, implementation, optimization, and migration services to streamline reporting, data sharing, and analytics activities.

Data management

We help businesses establish robust data management processes to ensure data accuracy, security, reliability, scalability, and availability, so it can be easily used for diverse business needs, including tactical decision-making and strategic planning.

Machine learning

Machine learning

We help businesses unlock deeper data insights and hidden data patterns that traditional business intelligence solutions are unable to uncover. We assist with building, integrating, and maintaining ML solutions driven by self-learning algorithms to improve operational efficiency and decision-making.

FAQs

Business intelligence consulting services encompass a set of activities aimed at helping companies develop a BI implementation strategy, implement a new BI system, migrate from the legacy infrastructure, or optimize the existing BI solution. BI consultants analyze current business processes related to data analytics and reporting, define business goals and needs, and provide the required assistance to help clients turn raw data into valuable insights to make smarter decisions and gain a competitive advantage.

The role of a BI consultant is to help companies develop and execute the right BI strategy. They select the technological stack and platform deployment method, help design, develop, and customize BI infrastructure components, and ensure seamless integration and adoption of the BI solution to facilitate informed decision-making.

BI consultants should excel in project management, data analysis, data modeling, and data visualization, be proficient in SQL, R, Python, and BI tools, and have knowledge of advanced technologies like predictive analytics, data mining, data science, and machine learning. Apart from that, they should also demonstrate strong soft skills like leadership, business acumen, communication, and problem-solving.

The BI project duration varies depending on the complexity of the solution, the number and the complexity of integrations, the required level of end-user support and training, and other variables. Typically, such a project takes from six months for simpler BI initiatives to several years for complex BI initiatives.

Our BI consulting firm prices its services based on the project’s size, the needed expertise, and the duration of our cooperation. Whether you require one-time advisory support or an end-to-end consulting and implementation service, we provide transparent pricing details and offer flexible engagement models that work best for you. Contact our team to get a ballpark estimation of your BI project costs.