Bottom line, we’re fanatical about helping private equity firms increase the value of their portfolio companies through strategic data management and visibility. We've been doing so for 300+ clients over the past 12 years.
We follow a deliberate set of best practices when developing and deploying data platforms and Power BI reports to ensure your data is actionable, well-adopted, and focused on practical business outcomes.
Best of all, we have a fantastic team of experts—and we’re fun to work with, too. (See our client testimonials)
First, we start by understanding your overarching business goals. We accomplish this through an introductory call and scoping workshop.
If you do not already have a data platform, our next will be to set up your data sources on Microsoft Azure Data Lake. We explain our data lake approach here: Why You Need a Data Lake in the First 100 Days.
Our team then manages your data platform on an ongoing, monthly basis. You can read more about our Managed Data Service here.
Finally, if you need to move quickly, we offer Development Sprints to help you meet urgent reporting goals. Development Sprints include modeling your data and creating Power BI dashboards in a sprint-based approach that focuses on speed, function, and iteration over perfection. We get you the reports you need as quickly as possible.
Blue Margin's team of data engineers are experts at Microsoft Azure and Power BI technologies. Microsoft's data platform offers seamless compatibility with Office 365 products. Microsoft has also heavily invested in generative AI technology which will be coming to all of their products in coming months.
Not as long as you’d think! When we stand up your data platform, we shoot to have your data sources live and ready for modeling within 2 weeks.
This is not a months-long onboarding process.
We operate on a straightforward subscription model. Check out our Pricing Page for all of the details.
Our clients own all aspects of their data tools. Blue Margin designs, develops and deploys all solutions for you, and all those solutions are 100% transferable to your own Power BI and Azure tenant at any time. Additionally, we’re committed to transparency in the consultant/client relationship, meaning we don’t hold your team hostage to our solution or application. Our promise to you: No vendor lock or black boxes. Ever.
Absolutely! As part of our Managed Data Service, we're here to help and answer questions about anything you're stuck on.
In short, to save us all a lot of time and hassle. By hosting your data on our tenant, our team is able to set up your platform rapidly (sometimes as quickly as a day but more often within a week or two) and has direct access to manage, maintain, and optimize it ongoing. Your data still belongs to you, and you will have direct access to it at all times.
You do not pay any additional fees for Blue Margin to host your data.
We're really happy with Blue Margin. You are at the top of the list of vendors we've worked with. We're going to keep growing and you'll be on that team.
You have delighted us beyond our expectations. After reviewing the dashboards Blue Margin developed, I realized this might be the most important thing I've been involved with in the last 5 years in this company.
It's amazing how much these dashboards are being used. It's like we invented fire!