Business Intelligence Companies & Consultants in Columbia, MO

FairCom Corporation is a software company based in Columbia, Missouri. It builds data management technology that organizations use as the foundation for analytics, reporting and operational decision-making. FairCom does not make dashboards. Its products collect, store, transform and deliver data from machines, applications and legacy systems so that analytics and business intelligence tools can use it. The company says its technology runs in millions of deployments in more than 100 countries.

Products relevant to analytics buyers

The best-known product for data-driven teams is FairCom Edge, a low-code industrial IoT hub. It runs on-site, on factory floors and in warehouses, wind farms and retail locations. Edge collects machine and sensor data across many protocols, then cleans, standardizes and enriches it in real time. It can send the data to local databases, cloud services or analytics platforms.

Edge includes an MQTT broker, a transactional database, IoT connectors and a transformation engine under one license, and it does not depend on the cloud. Other products in the range include:

• FairCom MQ: an MQTT broker with a built-in database for store-and-forward messaging, SQL and JSON querying, and a management dashboard called MQ Explorer
• FairCom DB: a multimodel database that works with JSON, SQL, key-value and record-buffer access over the same data, plus full-text search and time-series capabilities
• FairCom RTG: modernizes COBOL applications on Linux without rewriting source code
• FairCom ISAM: a drop-in replacement for Btrieve-based applications that adds SQL and NoSQL access

Industries and use cases

FairCom works mainly with operations-heavy organizations. Its site lists manufacturing, financial services, insurance, retail and telecom as focus industries. It also mentions customers in healthcare, banking and aviation. Typical projects include industrial IoT monitoring, predictive maintenance, embedded databases, microservice architectures, data transformation and modernizing legacy systems. Published case studies include a Canadian municipal wastewater project and a Mitsubishi Electric air-conditioning project. In the Mitsubishi project, the company reports that automated data processing cut data preparation time by about 30 percent.

How it works with clients

Prospective customers can download developer editions of Edge, MQ and DB to test in their own environments before buying. FairCom also offers personalized demos tailored to a client's setup, along with professional services and technical support. The company reports a 97.3 percent satisfaction rating for its support team. Products are configured with simple JSON instead of heavy custom code, so staff without deep programming experience can manage data pipelines.

Background and differentiators

FairCom has been developing database technology for over four decades. Its products are designed for high transaction throughput, replication for disaster recovery, and protection against data loss when systems fail. The company says its servers need little tuning or administration, which lowers total cost of ownership.

It offers more than 20 APIs and drivers, including JDBC and ODBC, for connecting to other systems. For buyers comparing business intelligence vendors, FairCom fits best as the data infrastructure layer that supplies real-time operational data to reporting and analytics tools, not as a front-end visualization provider.