Business Intelligence Companies & Consultants in Charlotte, NC

Hylaine is a technology consulting firm headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, that works mainly with large enterprises, including Fortune 1000 organizations in banking, insurance, healthcare and biotechnology. For buyers evaluating Business Intelligence partners, the firm's Data + AI practice is the most relevant part of its portfolio, covering everything from the underlying data architecture to the dashboards that business users see every day.

Data, Analytics and AI Capabilities

The company positions data as a foundation that must be dependable before reporting or machine learning can deliver value. Its data work is organized into several areas:

• Analytics and visualization, including dashboard development, embedded analytics, analytics automation and modernization of older reporting environments using Tableau, Power BI and Qlik
• Data engineering and architecture, such as integration and ETL pipelines, migrations and data warehouse builds
• Data strategy and governance, from roadmaps and advisory work to treating data as a product
• Data reliability, covering observability, quality controls and DevOps practices applied to data
• AI enablement, spanning predictive analytics, machine learning, generative AI, MLOps and AI governance

Beyond data, Hylaine also provides advisory services such as technology assessments, IT strategy and process improvement, along with application development, systems and CRM/ERP integration, cloud architecture and migration, and program and project management with change management. The team reports holding more than 150 certifications across platforms including AWS, Azure, GCP, Databricks and Snowflake, and describes itself as platform-agnostic rather than tied to a particular vendor.

Industry Focus

Financial services is a major specialty.

According to the firm, over half of its consultants have worked in banking or financial institutions, and its banking offering includes data platform modernization, regulatory reporting with data lineage built for examinations under SOX, FFIEC, GLBA and BSA/AML, M&A integration through its PMOflex program office approach, core banking modernization and analytics for risk, fraud and forecasting.

Published client stories, anonymized at client request, include running the integration office for a regional bank that grew into a top-15 U.S. institution, rebuilding a troubled advisor compensation platform on serverless technology after two earlier attempts had failed, and improving forecast reliability for a national mortgage lender.

Background and Approach

Adam Boitnott founded Hylaine in 2017 with the aim of offering a consulting model based on long-term relationships instead of one-off transactions. The firm now reports more than 200 consultants and five regional hubs: Charlotte, Raleigh, Atlanta, Dallas-Fort Worth and Indianapolis. Its leadership group includes President Doug Hautop and vice presidents overseeing delivery, operations, technology and finance, with data governance and AI readiness expertise represented at the leadership level.

Hylaine emphasizes senior staffing, stating that its consultants average about 15 years of experience and that any team change will be to someone of equal or greater seniority. It cites a 4% attrition rate, a Net Promoter Score of +72 and four consecutive years on the Inc. 5000 list.

The company also highlights fixed-price statements of work, accurate scoping and early disclosure of problems as core parts of how it engages, which may appeal to organizations in regulated, data-heavy sectors seeking a stable, experienced team for analytics and data modernization programs.

Overview

Pineapple Consulting Firm is an analytics company in Charlotte, North Carolina. It builds custom dashboards and reporting systems for smaller organizations and for the advisors who support them. Its main clients are companies that want to use numbers to guide growth but have no in-house analyst and no budget to hire one full time. The firm also works with consultants, coaches, bookkeepers and other B2B service providers who want to give their own clients guidance backed by data.

Services and products

The firm's core offering is a fractional analyst model. Under this model, its team acts as an outsourced analytics function. It builds dashboards, writes analytical summaries and automates the flow of data between systems so reports stay current. A second major line is white-label dashboards. Advisory firms can deliver these under their own branding to centralize client reporting, support retention and add recurring value. Buyers can expect offerings such as:

• Fractional analyst and BI analyst support
• Data strategy audits
• White-label and franchise dashboards
• QuickBooks Online, HubSpot, CFO, financial and marketing dashboards
• EOS L10 scorecards
• Looker Studio development, training services and an online dashboard course
• AI-enabled dashboards and AI analytics implementation
• Speaking engagements and small workshops

Artificial intelligence is a growing part of the practice. The company pairs simple visual dashboards with AI analysts that can answer questions about what drove a given result. It also uses a structured playbook to help consulting firms adopt AI tools, while final decisions stay in human hands. In addition, it refers clients to a partner company, Pineapple Analyst AI.

This platform lets advisors give each client a branded dashboard with its own AI assistant and view their entire portfolio in one place. New dashboards can be set up quickly by describing what is needed.

Approach and industries

Pineapple describes its method as relationship-first. The team starts by learning a client's goals and designs dashboards and analysis around those targets rather than producing reports for their own sake. It then delivers insights and recommendations meant to guide decisions. Client feedback on the site mentions on-time, on-budget delivery and organized project tracking.

Industries it lists include CPAs, bookkeepers, fractional CFOs, business coaches, marketing agencies, ecommerce and finance companies, small businesses and solopreneurs. Testimonials come from a PEO, a law firm owner, a financial advisor and a consumer brand that used a cohort-based free trial retention dashboard.

Background and team

The company was founded by Jack Tompkins, whom clients know as Pineapple Jack. He left a corporate career to apply large-company analytics skills to small businesses. He has created or supervised hundreds of dashboards and considers himself an early practitioner of the fractional analyst model. He also speaks publicly and hosts the podcast Scrappy but Successful.

The team includes business intelligence analysts such as Corey France, who has close to ten years of data experience in education and sales, and Harsh Patel. The pineapple name reflects two things: the firm's emphasis on hospitality and its aim of saving owners enough time and money to take a real vacation.

This gives the firm a personable angle in a technical field.

Overview

Power BI Consulting Services is a consultancy in Charlotte, North Carolina, that focuses on Microsoft's analytics and low-code tools. The firm says it is a Microsoft Partner and holds minority business enterprise (MBE) certification. It works with enterprise organizations, government bodies and nonprofits. It states that its practice draws on more than fifteen years of hands-on experience. Its blog is written largely by team member Nichole McKinney and refers to the company by the shorthand BICS.

The core of the business is turning scattered organizational data into interactive Power BI reporting that leaders can act on. Engagements usually begin with an assessment of how a client currently reports, looking for gaps and opportunities. The team then sets a BI strategy, builds the supporting data infrastructure and designs the dashboards themselves.

The company aims to make analytics usable for people outside the IT department, so business users can explore figures without asking technical staff to answer every question.

• Dashboard planning, design and deployment
• Ongoing Power BI support and maintenance
• Customized Power BI training for new and experienced users
• Data source integration and data warehouse setup
• Power Apps and custom application development
• Power Automate workflow automation
• AI and automation projects
• Custom connectors and SharePoint intranet solutions
• Dynamics 365 and QuickBooks reporting

Technical coverage spans the whole Power BI family:

• the Desktop authoring tool
• the hosted cloud service
• Embedded analytics placed inside other applications
• the on-premises Report Server

Beyond Power BI, the team works across the broader Power Platform, including Power Query and DAX modeling. This lets it pair reporting with process automation and lightweight business apps. Its blog also covers performance tuning, such as streamlining data models and making DAX calculations run faster.

Industries and Specialties

The site highlights several areas of focus. Assisted living analytics appears as a dedicated industry offering, and nonprofit reporting has its own section. The firm also publishes material on:

• customer experience management reporting
• bringing Google Analytics data into Power BI
• connecting QuickBooks accounting data to dashboards

Before engaging, buyers evaluating vendors can review report samples, case studies, a live demo dashboard and a library of YouTube videos on the site.

Products and Engagement Options

Alongside custom consulting, the company sells ready-made Power BI report templates through an online shop. The current templates cover Google Analytics and QuickBooks. It also offers Power BI Jump Starts for getting projects moving quickly, a data strategy framework, and an enterprise-level Power BI offering for larger deployments.

Nonprofits, government agencies, and businesses owned by minorities, women or veterans qualify for a discount, which may matter to mission-driven buyers. According to its blog, the company holds Upwork's Top Rated Plus designation along with Expert-Vetted status, and the site keeps an awards and recognition page.