Business Intelligence & Data Analysis

Business intelligence solutions take the data your business already collects, such as orders, jobs, inspections or sales, and turn it into dashboards and reports that show what's working. For a small business, that usually means one screen with the numbers you care about, kept up to date automatically. It replaces the job of someone building a spreadsheet by hand every month.

Our business intelligence services cover custom dashboards, automated reports, bringing data from several sources into one view, tracking your key figures with alerts, and keeping the data clean and accurate. We start with the few numbers that matter most to you rather than trying to measure everything at once. More reports can be added in stages as you find out what's useful.

Yes. We're based in County Kildare and build dashboards and reporting systems for businesses across Ireland and Northern Ireland. You deal with one person from start to finish, the person who builds your system, and most day to day contact happens by video call, phone and email.

It usually is if someone in your business spends hours each week copying figures into spreadsheets to see what's going on. Cork Office Machines and Supplies Ltd now sees page counts, toner levels and printer faults as they come in, and the system behind it gave the family business 90% less manual work on order processing and billing. You don't need a big company's budget or a data team to get that kind of result.

A first version usually costs €3,000 to €8,000, a mid-sized system €8,000 to €12,000 depending on complexity, and larger builds €15,000 and up. The price depends mainly on how many sources the data comes from, how many reports and screens you need and how many types of user will see them. We agree a fixed price for the first version before any work starts.

A first version usually takes 4 to 8 weeks. You see working screens with your own data early on, so you can tell us what's useful while it's still easy to change. After that, the system grows in stages as you decide what else you'd like to measure.

Usually, yes. We've built systems that read data from incoming emails and their attachments, keep everything in one central database and export figures to an existing billing system, and we work with tools such as Google Workspace, Microsoft 365 and Xero. We look at where your data lives in the first conversation and plan the connections from there.

No. Most small and medium businesses get the most value from the data they already collect, set out clearly in one place. Where there's a lot of data to analyse, we use Google BigQuery, which handles large volumes without you having to buy or run any servers.

Yes. A dashboard can track your key figures and send an alert when one of them needs looking at, so problems don't wait for the month end report. The Cork billing system, for example, flags printer faults and printers that haven't sent in their usage reports, and the apps we built for AM Site Solutions send reminders before certificates expire.

Your data is held on Google Cloud in an EU region, encrypted while it travels and while it's stored, and backed up every night to separate off-site storage. Role-based access means each person only sees the figures they need for their job. You own the data and the code, and we sign a GDPR data processing agreement when you ask.