Business Intelligence Companies & Consultants in Littleton, CO

Sand Cherry Associates is a management consulting firm with its main base in the Denver area. It works with organizations, including large enterprises, that need help with strategy, operations and data. The firm describes Business Intelligence as one of its central practice areas, next to business solutions, digital work, project management and customer experience.

Its clients are spread across the United States, Canada, Latin America and Europe. Consultants work from several metro areas, including Denver, New York, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Chicago, Atlanta and the San Francisco Bay Area. Denver acts as the operational hub and covers the Western states and Latin America.

Business Intelligence practice

The BI group is built around what Sand Cherry calls the data journey: the full path data travels inside a company, from its origin through processing to final analysis. The team aims to make sure data reaches analysts on schedule, in a consistent and accurate form, and fit for decision-making.

The practice includes solution architects, data engineers, data modelers, testers and software developers. They can design new data processing environments or connect to systems a client already runs, while reinforcing data stewardship and governance across the enterprise. A second focus is analytics.

Here the firm pairs established analytical software with industry knowledge to help clients understand customer behavior, past performance and likely future outcomes.

• Data integrity and data engineering
• Data architecture and data modeling
• Data governance and stewardship support
• Data Management Review, a baseline assessment of a client's data ecosystem
• Advanced analytics and data insights
• Interactive geospatial visualization, such as maps of public broadband funding
• Econometric, statistical and simulation modeling for litigation, including valuations, damages and economic forecasts

The firm offers a structured data services framework that lines up with each stage of the data journey. Buyers who are not sure where to begin can start with the Data Management Review, which gives a starting snapshot of how well current practices, tools and strategy support business goals. The econometric work is aimed at law firms and the expert witnesses they retain.

Industries and approach

Sand Cherry's industry experience centers on broadband and telecommunications, media and content, healthcare (through its Sand Cherry Healthcare offering), energy and infrastructure, hospitality, and corporate finance and private equity analysis. Consultants generally join the client's own staff and take ownership of results rather than simply handing over recommendations. According to its leadership, the firm's data ecosystem framework is meant to let companies tackle large data challenges in organized, step-by-step stages.

Background and team

The firm started in the Rocky Mountain region. Its name comes from the Western sand cherry, a hardy native shrub that the company uses as a symbol of resilience and adaptability. Managing Director Edric Starbird leads the data insights and data integrity practice. He works with data and analytics specialists including Ed Ulshafer and Eugen Brazdil.

Team members operate in a largely virtual setting. Sand Cherry also runs a paid internship program named for Monique S. Bell, aimed at MBA and undergraduate students from underrepresented groups. In 2026 the firm announced that it is joining Wavestone, a global consulting group with about 6,000 employees, which adds AI and cybersecurity capabilities.

Sand Cherry has said its client teams and working relationships will stay the same.