Strategic data management. Straightforward subscription.

At a fraction of the cost of building your own internal team, our expert data and analytics team will host and manage everything for you.

Onboarding

Data Platform Setup

Connect your data

$25K

per source system

Consolidate disparate data sources
Start with one or as many sources as you want
Ingest any type of data
Provides a single location for data sharing and access
Platform add-on source integration
Live data in ~2 weeks

Ongoing

Managed Data Service

Your fractional BI team

$10K

per month

Access to an experienced team of data professionals on Day 1
Quick access to the BI reports you need
Behind the scenes platform optimization and maintenance
Scalable cloud architecture
Strategic CDO consultation

Optional Add-on

Development Sprints

Get results even faster

$12K

per sprint

Leverage a bench of capacity to accelerate progress when you need to
Fast data models for analysts and AI analytics
Rapid turnaround Power BI Reports

With a quick platform setup, our fractional team, and the option to add-on development sprints, our Managed Data Service simplifies your data management and scales with you.

Trusted by 300+ of the most progressive companies and private equity firms

Frequently Asked Questions

How long does it take to set up a data platform and integrate data sources?
Why Blue Margin?

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)
What does an engagement look like?

First, we start by understanding your overarching business goals. We accomplish this through 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, and in addition to the development hours you receive with an MDS engagement, 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.
What technology does Blue Margin use?
Will Blue Margin own the data and reports?

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 locks or black boxes. Ever.
Does Blue Margin offer support?

Currently, AppRiver has the best real-time dashboards of any company I have ever worked with, and Blue Margin was a great partner to help us with that work.

KEVIN HATCH

CFO, Appriver

★★★★★

What's unique about your team as opposed to other vendors, is that you give us a sense you are actually part of our organization and you help to solve problems in the context of our business.

BOB SPIELVOGEL

CIO, Educational Development Center

★★★★★

Blue Margin really helped us get a great data model that we can build on for future reporting.  The previous experience they had with other customers allowed us to see some reports that made a lot of sense, so we added them to our scope.

LONNIE THOMSEN

Director of Operations, BOA Technology, Inc.

★★★★★

Strategic data management. Straightforward subscription.

At a fraction of the cost of building your own internal team, our expert data and analytics team will host and manage everything for you.

Onboarding

Data Platform Setup

$25K

Ongoing

Managed Data Service

$10K

Optional Add-on

Development Sprints

$12K

With a quick platform setup, our fractional team, and the option to add-on development sprints, our Managed Data Service simplifies your data management and scales with you.

Trusted by 300+ of the most progressive companies and private equity firms

Frequently Asked Questions

How long does it take to set up a data platform and integrate data sources?

Why Blue Margin?

What does an engagement look like?

What technology does Blue Margin use?

Will Blue Margin own the data and reports?

Does Blue Margin offer support?

KEVIN HATCH

CFO, Appriver

BOB SPIELVOGEL

CIO, Educational Development Center

LONNIE THOMSEN

Director of Operations, BOA Technology, Inc.

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