Business Intelligence Companies & Consultants in New Orleans, LA

Overview

Insight Data Services, LLC is a data and analytics consultancy headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana. It provides integrated data solutions to small and large businesses throughout the Gulf Coast region. The firm combines strategic advisory work with technical delivery. Clients get help deciding what their data should accomplish and help building the systems that make it possible. The consultancy regards information as a valuable business asset, to be used for sharper decisions, better processes and innovation.

Services and Areas of Expertise

The firm works across the whole data stack, from collecting source data to the visual reports that managers and staff consult each day. Its main focus areas are:

• Business intelligence and data visualization using Power BI and Tableau, so that enterprise-level insight reaches people across an organization
• Modern data architecture, which helps companies move away from expensive traditional warehousing and toward flexible, cloud-oriented designs that lower costs
• Advanced analytics, including predictive modeling, machine learning and deep learning applied to information from many different sources
• Big data, meaning structured and unstructured data gathered at high volume and sourced for clients to support strategies built on evidence
• ETL, pipelines and database engineering, with particular depth in Microsoft SQL Server and Azure SQL

Approach to Client Work

Projects follow a framework with five stages: modernize, standardize, optimize, visualize and maintain. The firm says this structure reduces time to delivery, improves accuracy and increases the impact of results. It also aims to address problems many organizations know well. Examples include being told the needed data does not exist, waiting too long and paying too much for each new dataset, funding reports that nobody uses, and spending more time locating information than learning from it.

Its answer is a holistic, modular architecture that protects the investment a company makes in data. That matters because cloud technologies keep arriving, competitors adopt predictive analytics and artificial intelligence, and digital channels reshape the customer journey. Prospective clients begin by submitting a form describing their business needs. The request is routed to the suitable person, and a reply is expected within one to two business days.

The Team

The consultancy describes its people as experienced and technically strong. James Burke specializes in development operations and business intelligence. His earlier roles included process analysis, where he used reporting to find ways to raise productivity by prioritizing critical functions and phasing out unnecessary ones, and informatics consulting, where he helped establish tools that record, organize, store, secure and provide access to data in line with company standards.

Ian Stewart is the database administrator and ETL specialist. He works with SQL Server from 2008 through 2019, Azure SQL Database and managed instances. His background includes tables with billions of rows, multi-terabyte databases, query tracing, indexing and tuning, and schema validation. He prefers back-end work to reporting.

Clark McClendon serves as project manager and data scientist. He previously ran a consulting business for 17 years that focused on office automation through custom software, and he took part in every stage from first client meeting to user training. His long experience with how businesses store data shapes his effort to help clients store it in the most useful way.

Bruno Robert is lead data scientist and development operations engineer. His skills include Python scripting, data cleaning and extraction, automation and pipeline creation, plus Rust, C/C++, JavaScript and Node.js. He also knows Docker, Kubernetes, Azure, AWS and Google Cloud, and he works with machine learning chiefly through TensorFlow.

Who It Suits

Organizations in Louisiana and along the Gulf Coast that need more than dashboards may find the firm a good match. Its combination of database tuning, cloud architecture and visualization allows one local team to take a project from underlying infrastructure through to finished reporting.