Business Intelligence Companies & Consultants in Saint Paul, MN

Fulton Analytics, LLC is a data and AI consulting company headquartered in Eagan, Minnesota. It presents itself as a reliable advisor for Midwest organizations that want to get more from their information. The firm builds most of its work around Microsoft technology. It is a Microsoft Solution Partner staffed by certified consultants, and it also maintains a Databricks partnership so that clients are not tied to a single platform.

Analytics, Data and Automation Services

Organizations that need better reporting can ask Fulton to create new dashboards or update outdated ones. A frequent goal is to pull many separate systems into a single Power BI view that leaders can trust. Beyond reporting, the company covers a wide range of data disciplines:

• Strategy and architecture planning, guided by a methodology the firm calls its Data Success Framework
• Semantic modeling that gets business stakeholders to agree on common definitions and logic
• Data engineering using Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data Factory and Databricks
• Multi-cloud integration spanning Azure, Snowflake, AWS and Google
• SQL Server development with SSIS, SSAS and SSRS
• Governance, cataloging, stewardship and lineage through Microsoft Purview, plus master data management aimed at a single authoritative source
• Digital insights that merge fragmented marketing data from tools such as Google Analytics and Adobe
• Intelligent automation and AI work using the Power Platform, Copilot, Python and Claude AI

Fulton also recognizes that software alone rarely changes how people work. Its consultants support adoption, data literacy and shared development within Power BI, and the firm offers Power BI training. A data storytelling team applies interface and user-experience design so that reports encourage decisions. For clients short on capacity, Fulton supplies project leadership, delivery oversight, fractional IT leadership and IT staffing.

Managed Support for Fabric

Companies running Microsoft Fabric can sign up for ongoing monthly support. The scope covers licensing, monitoring and administration, Purview governance and lineage, strategy and roadmap planning, migration of existing Power BI, Azure and SQL Server assets into Fabric, and the addition of AI and predictive capabilities. A monthly Power BI support retainer and Fabric advisory are available too. Teams still weighing their options can begin with a free consultation, a workshop or a webinar.

Industry Experience

Fulton reports project work in a broad set of sectors, which may reassure buyers who want a partner that already knows their field:

• Consumer goods, including furniture, convenience stores, beverages, grooming, hearing and apparel
• Specialty manufacturing, with centralized dashboards covering inventory, sales, billing, safety and forecasting
• Retail, where it has mapped system integration among platforms such as SAP, Dynamics, Oracle, Salesforce, Infor, Workday and ADP
• Transportation and logistics, helping carriers with thin margins measure profitability and fleet performance
• Agriculture and food production, automating supply chain, sourcing, market and pricing decisions
• Construction, steel and civil engineering
• Renewable energy and oil and gas, focused on asset management and project resources
• Healthcare, especially EMS and air medical transport, using real-time analytics for response times, staffing and peak demand; its EMSinsights offering relates to this area
• Professional services, including accounting, collections, telecom, legal, real estate and nonprofits

The company publishes case studies about Power BI for a trucking business, the air medical provider Life Link III, and a construction firm. Others describe an embedded Power BI deployment that accelerated COVID-19 testing and analytics for a popular Minneapolis retail brand.

Testimonials from a retail furniture CIO, a technology VP at a food and agriculture company and a renewable energy CFO commend the experience, the daily communication and the caliber of the team. Fulton describes its philosophy as human-centric, treats data as a business asset, and says it seeks long-term relationships grounded in consistency, transparency and results.