Business Intelligence Companies & Consultants in Duluth, GA

Key2 Consulting is a data analytics consultancy based in Johns Creek, Georgia, that works with mid-sized and large enterprises looking to turn scattered information into dependable reporting and decision support. The firm has been operating for close to two decades, now employs more than 40 full-time consultants, and counts some of the biggest organizations in the country among its clients. Its practice is built largely around the Microsoft data stack, and it describes itself as a Microsoft Gold Partner.

Business Intelligence and Analytics Services

For buyers focused on reporting, Key2 designs and builds dashboards and reports primarily in Power BI, and it also has experience with Tableau, Amazon QuickSight and Qlik Sense. Beneath the visualization layer, the team handles the data platforms and pipelines that feed analytics. Its core offerings include:

• Power BI dashboard and report development
• Microsoft Fabric implementation, plus a free introductory Fabric workshop
• Databricks and Azure Databricks consulting, including streaming and batch processing
• Data engineering with Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake (ADLS Gen2) and Synapse Analytics
• Data warehousing and lakehouse design
• SQL Server consulting covering SSIS, SSAS and SSRS, along with tuning, maintenance and security
• Migration of on-premises or AWS-hosted SQL Server databases to Azure SQL Database, SQL Managed Instance or Azure VMs

How They Work With Clients

Engagements typically start by pinning down the metrics that matter most to a client's performance, then working back to the data required to support them. From there, Key2 sets up the architecture and processes needed to pull information together from different source systems, and finally shapes the output so business users can interpret it easily.

The firm stresses knowledge transfer, aiming to leave internal staff equipped with best practices, and it helps clients weigh options such as which Azure SQL offering or migration route fits their situation.

Industries and Specialties

Key2 lists finance, healthcare, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, retail and public sector work. In healthcare, it reports leading a very large Azure deployment, building Power BI dashboards relied on by thousands of staff, and supporting an electronic health record modernization effort for a major U.S. health system that moves over 40 TB of data through Databricks.

Retail projects have covered store-level reporting at or near real time, cross-department KPI dashboards and insight into customer purchasing behavior. Finance work has included analytics processes aligned with Sarbanes-Oxley and federal compliance, plus more accurate financial statements during mergers, acquisitions and divestitures.

For a large government agency, the team has combined Data Factory, Databricks notebooks, a dimensional model in Azure SQL and geospatial mapping with Geocodio, GeoPandas and GeoJSON.

What Sets Them Apart

Buyers handling regulated data may value the firm's attention to standards like HIPAA and FERPA and its experience protecting PHI and PII through masking, segregation, encryption at rest and in transit, and restricted access. Key2 also tends to work with early adopters of new SQL Server releases, and it publishes a steady stream of technical content on Fabric, Power BI and SSIS, which gives prospective clients a view into its depth before engaging.