Business Intelligence Companies & Consultants in Moscow, ID

Lightcast is a labor market intelligence company that was formerly called Emsi Burning Glass. It converts scattered workforce information into guidance that schools, employers and public agencies can act on. The company reports more than 25 years in the field, and its datasets reach 165 countries, whose economies account for roughly 99 percent of world GDP.

Buyers weighing business intelligence vendors will find a specialist here: the focus is jobs, skills, pay, and the balance of talent supply and demand, not broad all-purpose reporting.

Data, software and services

The product line is organized around three areas. The first is data delivery, which gives clients direct access to labor datasets so they can create their own dashboards, models and applications.

Available data themes include company attributes and corporate hierarchies, compensation estimates tied to the traits of a particular role, a live view of employer demand drawn from postings, a live view of talent supply drawn from profiles, organizational benchmarking, and work intelligence about the skills and tasks that shape how jobs get done.

The second area is software, built as focused applications that people without a technical background can use. Analyst supports research into supply, demand and program strategy, while Talent Analyst serves enterprise workforce strategy. Developer targets workforce and economic development teams, Career Coach suggests personalized career routes, and Alumni Pathways examines what graduates do after leaving school.

Gazelle applies predictive modeling to spot promising companies, Stratigens studies worldwide labor supply, demand and compensation, and Talent Transform connects tasks, capabilities and jobs through a skills lens. Further tools include SmartReq for skill-centered job descriptions, Staffing Analyst for staffing firms, a talent migration dashboard, and a widget builder for placing data on a website.

Consulting approach

The third area, professional services, relies on economists, labor market specialists, data scientists and workforce strategists. A typical engagement moves through four steps:

• The client explains the workforce problem it wants to solve.
• Consultants study the data and shape a custom solution.
• Insights, data and recommendations are handed over.
• The team coaches the client on presenting results to business leaders.

Work can be deep and prescriptive, or programmatic, supplying datasets, exports and reports for modeling and product design. For lighter needs, an advisory option offers data pulls, expert briefings, short reports and dashboards. Typical subjects include skills-first hiring, job and skill architecture, skills gap analysis, competitor and compensation benchmarking, sourcing and pipeline strategy, site selection, remote worker strategy, reskilling, and turnover analysis.

The company points to several outcomes. A large manufacturer developed internal reskilling and advancement routes and trimmed hiring spending by as much as $1.5 million. A multinational retailer produced a skill architecture covering thousands of roles in ten weeks, against an expected half-year or longer using survey methods. A software firm used normalized job titles to build diversity benchmarks for its recruiting plan.

Who it serves

Lightcast addresses three principal audiences and also maintains pages for healthcare, manufacturing and staffing:

• Education: aligning programs with the market, linking students to careers, and showing impact
• Enterprise: managing talent and workforce planning with market and skills insight
• Public sector: strengthening industries and building career pathways

Specialized services for these clients include economic impact studies, first destination and alumni mobility surveys, program gap analyses and input-output analysis of regional economies. Regional teams operate across the US and Canada, the United Kingdom, Europe and Asia Pacific. The company has also announced two new ways to bring its labor market intelligence into AI workflows, and its headquarters are in Moscow, Idaho.