Data Strategy

Data Strategy & Analytics Consulting

Your data lives in spreadsheets, email, and five different systems. A real data strategy organizes that chaos into a single source of truth, so your team stops wrangling and starts building.

A real data strategy answers three questions before anyone builds a dashboard: what should we measure, where does the trustworthy version of that data live, and who owns it. Get those right and everything downstream gets faster.

Most teams don’t have a data strategy. They have data chaos

  • Reports break the moment source data changes.
  • You build the same dashboard three times because nobody knows how to share data.
  • Month-end reconciliation takes days because nobody trusts the numbers.
  • Your BI team spends half its time firefighting instead of building.

What good data strategy looks like

Integration

Your data sources talk to each other. There’s a single place to ask questions, not five systems that disagree.

Governance

When a report says revenue is $2M, everybody believes it. Shared definitions, ownership, and standards for your core metrics.

Scalability

Your foundation scales from 1M rows to 500M without a rebuild. It’s designed for where you’re going, not just where you are.

Common engagements

Clear, scoped ways to start, each with a defined timeline and outcome.

Typically 2 to 4 weeks

Data Audit & Roadmap

We map your current data landscape and hand back a prioritized, phased roadmap you can act on immediately.

Typically 4 to 8 weeks

Data Consolidation

Bring data from 3 to 5 systems into one consistent place, with hands-on team enablement so your people can own it.

Typically 8 to 16 weeks

Data Warehouse Design

Design and build a dimensional model engineered to scale from 1M to 500M+ rows without a costly rebuild later.

Data Strategy

  • The plan: what to measure, how it’s governed, and the sequence to get there
  • Lightweight, and it starts delivering value in weeks
  • Aligns people and definitions before you touch tools
  • Answers “what should we build, and why”

Data Warehouse

  • The build: a dimensional model engineered for scale and speed
  • Heavier: a multi-week engineering effort
  • Follows the strategy, not the other way around
  • Answers “where does the data physically live”

You need the strategy first. A warehouse is one possible output of it, never a substitute for it.

Tools & platforms

SQLTableauPower BICloud Data PlatformsDimensional ModelingETL/ELT

What good looks like

  • Everyone agrees on what the core numbers actually mean.
  • A clear, funded roadmap instead of endless ad-hoc requests.
  • Fragmented systems connected into one consistent view.
  • A foundation that scales with you. No painful rebuild later.
“The data challenges resulted in several revisions to thinking around which data elements to include and how to present the data. Fred served as a great thought partner and was patient and flexible as we revisited our decisions.”
Leslie Tresun, Learning & Evaluation Specialist

Related work

Strategy and governance underpin every dashboard we ship. The reporting systems in our success stories all sit on a defined metric model and integrated data sources. It’s the same foundation this work delivers.

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