Business Intelligence Companies & Consultants in Missoula, MT

Morton Analytics is a software and data firm in Missoula, Montana. It builds analytics platforms, data products and decision tools for government agencies and private companies. The company is registered as Morton Analytics LLC and holds SBA 8(a) certification, which matters to federal buyers looking for qualified small-business contractors. Private organizations work with the same engineering team on commercial projects.

Background and team

The firm started as an independent data analytics practice led by founder Ryan Morton. It has since grown to build custom applications, analytical tooling and AI-enabled products. Morton is president and data solution architect. He has worked in technology firms, health care, telecom and government, and he is especially strong in large-scale enterprise data work.

Chief executive Ryan MacPherson handles staffing, finances and contracting and has spent more than two decades building and supporting teams. Data scientist and programmer Jackson Joyner holds a master's degree in business analytics and focuses on using data to guide business choices.

Business Intelligence services

For buyers comparing BI providers, Morton Analytics handles every step from raw data to finished decision tools:

• Analytical systems and decision-support applications
• Monitoring dashboards, alerting and automated reporting
• Data engineering, including ETL/ELT pipelines and data warehouse design
• Statistical modeling and machine learning, including anomaly detection
• Satellite imagery, geospatial and remote-sensing analysis, plus map-making
• Generative AI, large language model and natural language processing work
• Cloud hosting and DevOps support, plus API development

Its industry experience includes supply chain, telecom, health care, federal agriculture programs and official statistics.

Products and track record

The company maintains myIO and pymyIO, open-source charting libraries built on D3.js for R and Python users and published through CRAN and PyPI. It also runs GroundPulse, a platform that uses satellite data to monitor risk along bridges, pipelines and road corridors.

For USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service and Economic Research Service, the team merged 37 separate systems into one cloud-hosted, open-source platform that the agency now runs itself. That project won the USDA-NASS Circle Award for Excellence in 2023.

Other work includes a tool that tracks influenza severity in more than 100 countries for the World Health Organization and a juvenile justice outcomes application for the Texas Policy Lab. The firm has also completed about 40 commercial research and development projects in machine learning, scientific computing and app development.

Working style and differentiators

Morton Analytics uses design thinking. Clients are involved from the first stage through quick prototypes, and they can test working software hands-on before it is released. The team adapts to each organization's starting point. What most sets the firm apart is that it uses open-source technology by default.

Clients can see the methods behind the results, avoid recurring license fees and keep ownership of the code they receive. The firm may suit buyers who value transparency and long-term control over their analytics stack. It may also suit those who want one vendor that handles both geospatial data and conventional dashboards.