Business Intelligence Companies & Consultants in Indianapolis, IN

Overview

Indy Data Partners is an Indianapolis technology consultancy that has served clients since 2014. A military veteran owns the business, and its work centers on data: the databases, cloud environments and analytics tools that organizations depend on to run and measure their operations.

The firm aims at mid-market and enterprise customers and has built a client base across the United States. It describes its goal as pairing the technical strength of a large provider with the communication and agility of a nearby partner.

Analytics and Intelligence Work

Business intelligence is one of the firm's main offerings, and it leans heavily on Microsoft technology. Consultants design data warehouses, engineer the pipelines that feed them, and build interactive Power BI dashboards that help leaders make decisions with more confidence. The company singles out Power BI and Azure Data Factory as particular strengths. It also works with SSRS, SSIS and SSAS for clients that rely on traditional Microsoft reporting and integration tooling.

• Dashboard and report development in Power BI
• Data warehouse design and pipeline engineering
• Data orchestration and integration through Azure Data Factory
• Data strategy, data engineering and data science engagements
• Artificial intelligence using Azure Machine Learning, Azure Databricks, Azure Cognitive Services and Azure Cognitive Search

Database, Cloud and Development Services

Beneath the analytics layer, the company provides managed database administration for Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle and MySQL, with support available around the clock. As a certified Microsoft Partner, it designs, migrates and manages Azure environments suited to each client's workloads. Its application development group creates web and mobile software with a database-first mindset, drawing on .NET Core, ASP.NET, C#, Python, Azure DevOps and the Power Platform, including Power Apps. Infrastructure solutions and software and subscription services complete the range.

Working Style

The scale of an engagement is flexible. Some clients bring in a single expert to support a specific project, while others hire a full team to deliver a large enterprise system. The firm says it recruits and keeps engineers who are strong communicators as well as skilled technicians, and that its people are available at all hours throughout the year.

Its stated values, shaped by veteran ownership, are discipline, transparent communication and dependable delivery. It also says it works with clients' leadership to align technology with long-term business goals, treating technology as a strategic asset instead of an operational obstacle.

Leadership

Ryan Stephens, co-founder, president and CEO, spent 12 years in the military and has over three decades in information technology. His experience spans Oracle administration and development, database design, SQL and UNIX administration. He formerly taught at Indiana University in Indianapolis, writing and delivering more than 20 courses on SQL and database management, and he has written or co-written upwards of a dozen books, some published internationally.

Arie "AJ" Jones is Director of Emerging Technologies, with more than 25 years in SQL Server, Oracle and .NET. He holds bachelor's and master's degrees in physics, guides clients toward BI, database and application solutions, and mentors the firm's consultants. He is a community speaker, an author of several SQL books and a PASS Regional Mentor for the Midwest.

Angie Gleim, co-founder, COO and Executive Vice President, is an Indiana University graduate with more than twenty years in IT leadership. She directs sales, marketing and delivery, manages daily operations and works to keep clients satisfied.

Onebridge is a data and AI consulting firm based in Indianapolis. Since 2005 it has worked with some of the biggest U.S. enterprises, among them hospitals and health systems, drug and device makers, factories, banks and insurers, and public-sector agencies. In 2024 Marlabs LLC, a global digital solutions company, acquired the firm. Onebridge still operates under its own name and concentrates on analytics and artificial intelligence.

Business Intelligence and Data Services

The company supports the whole lifecycle of data, from back-end infrastructure to the dashboards that business users rely on. Typical areas of work include:

• Dashboard building and visualization in Power BI, Tableau and Looker
• Moving reports from Oracle Analytics, Google Data Studio and other BI tools to a new platform
• Data engineering and warehousing with BigQuery, Synapse and Snowflake
• Cloud data management on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud
• ETL and ELT pipelines, APIs, data marts, catalogs and system integration
• Data strategy, governance and master data management
• Service desk support, ticket handling, training and workshops

Migration work is often prompted by mergers, a shift from on-premises systems to the cloud, or modernization programs. Onebridge uses accelerators it created for such projects, including automated schema conversion, intelligent mapping, generated documentation, simulated migrations and automated testing. It also helps clients evaluate and select tools and weigh risks, benefits and return on investment.

How Engagements Work

The firm frames its approach as strategy, execution and enablement. Its MAP framework, short for Modern Analytics Platform, produces a tailored roadmap covering people, processes, technology and data, so stakeholders can see where they stand and what comes next. Clients may hire Onebridge for a single project, continuing management, or added staff for their existing IT, AI and data teams.

Managed services are shaped around each client's technology stack, data maturity, skill gaps and budget instead of a fixed process.

Examples the firm shares include a pharmaceutical company that took a six-month engagement with optional quarterly renewals for a large migration, and a manufacturer that preferred Slack, its own ticketing system and weekly sprints, which the team adopted in place of its usual two-week cadence.

Organizational change management and training round out the offering so employees can adopt new tools with confidence.

Onebridge calls itself technology-agnostic, basing recommendations on client needs, while still keeping active relationships with a number of leading software vendors such as Microsoft, Snowflake, Databricks, Tableau and Profisee.

AI Capabilities

The AI practice starts with a discovery program for organizations unsure where to begin and extends to several specialties:

• Interactive AI that uses generative models for natural-language access to systems and information
• Cognitive AI for research, discovery and product innovation
• AI-powered analytics, including monitoring and anomaly detection
• Intelligent automation that adds AI to robotic process automation

Its AI Evolution Framework is meant to help companies adopt AI responsibly while technology and best practices shift. The firm also built PromptRouter, a proprietary product that gauges how complex each request is and avoids sending simple ones to the costliest model, which lowers the expense of running large language model solutions. It adds a security layer for use within corporate guidelines.

Industries and Recognition

Healthcare and life sciences are particular strengths, since those sectors embraced data-driven intelligence early. The firm also lists practices in financial, manufacturing, marketing and retail analytics. Senior Engineer Jeremey Arnold authored the first Power BI book released by O'Reilly.

Onebridge has been honored among Indianapolis Best Places to Work every year since 2015, ranked first among large Indiana employers in 2021, and appeared on the Inc. 5000 list of fast-growing companies. Its leadership team includes Chief Executive Officer Paul Rothwell, Chief Operating Officer Scott Morgan and Chief People Officer Christina Nash.

Resultant is a consulting and delivery firm headquartered in downtown Indianapolis that helps organizations turn scattered information into usable insight. Its work spans data, technology and artificial intelligence, and it serves both public agencies and private companies. For buyers looking at Business Intelligence providers, data analytics is one of the firm's main practice areas, and BI is one service inside it, next to data strategy, data governance and managed data operations.

Business Intelligence and Data Services

Resultant presents its data work as a full lifecycle. It starts with planning, moves through building solutions and continues with ongoing support. Clients can hire it for a single piece of work or for a long-term relationship. Its data and analytics offerings include:

• Business Intelligence reporting, dashboards and visualization
• Data analytics strategy and strategic data roadmaps
• Custom analytics solutions and unified data platforms
• Data governance programs
• Managed services for data environments
• AI and advanced data science applications

The firm says it has more than fifteen years of experience with AI and advanced data science. It describes its approach to AI as practical and focused on delivering value quickly. Its published case studies show how this works in practice. In one, Resultant built a scalable platform for a professional horse racing association.

The platform combined fragmented customer records, used identity resolution and gave executives one view of each customer. In another, it built a dashboard with the Indiana Department of Education about student readiness after graduation. It has also created interactive dashboards and visualizations for a regional workforce board in North Central Texas.

Industries Served

Resultant works with clients in a wide range of sectors. On the public side, it serves state and local government, including education, workforce development, health and human services, and public safety, courts and corrections. It also works with federal agencies. On the private side, it serves healthcare, transportation, private equity, financial services and banking, professional services, manufacturing and professional sports. Nonprofit organizations are a client group as well.

Technology Partnerships and Broader Capabilities

The company works with several cloud platforms. It is a Google Cloud Premier Partner and says it has more than 70 Google-certified staff, who use the platform for smart analytics and infrastructure modernization. Resultant also holds AWS Partner status with certified solutions architects. It has received Microsoft Gold designations for Cloud Productivity and Cloud Platform.

Beyond data, it offers IT managed services with round-the-clock support, multisource service integration, cybersecurity, IT assessments, application and API development, digital transformation and organizational change management. For private equity clients, it handles diligence, value creation after a deal closes, and IT carveouts. It reports carveout work for portfolio companies with anywhere from 200 to 40,000 users.

Background

Resultant was previously known as KSM Consulting. In May 2018 it opened its current headquarters, an office and innovation center on Monument Circle. The firm hosts the Data-Driven Leadership podcast, where host Jess Carter talks with data practitioners about real-world problems. Buyers who want a BI partner that can also handle cloud infrastructure, governance and AI under one contract may find this combined model useful.