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.
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 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.
Blue Margin's team of data engineers are experts at Microsoft Azure and Power BI technologies. Microsoft is ubiquitous and offers seamless compatibility with Office 365 used by the majority of businesses. Microsoft has also heavily invested in generative AI technology, and we see them as industry leaders in this space.
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.
Absolutely! In fact, that’s one of things our clients like best about us—we’re always available to help. Our Managed Data Service ensures you have a team of experts managing your data, offering data strategy guidance, and building reports to help you meet your objectives (for less that it would cost you to hire in-house talent.)
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.
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.
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.