Business Intelligence Companies & Consultants in Randolph, NJ

Bardess Group is a data and analytics consultancy based in Randolph, New Jersey, and is now part of Cleartelligence. The firm has been in business for close to three decades. It works with Fortune 500 enterprises and many other organizations whose data problems are complicated and high-stakes. Its goal is to turn scattered information into reporting and insight that leads to faster, better-informed decisions.

Four practice areas

Bardess organizes its consulting around four disciplines and delivers them through LEAP, its own engagement methodology. Clients can use a single area or combine several as their needs change.

• Data strategy: reviews of current data maturity and how well it fits business goals, new or revised strategy roadmaps, cloud migration planning, and governance standards that protect data quality.
• Data engineering and architecture: cloud-hosted warehousing, pipeline design for ingestion and transformation, data preparation and cleansing, and controls for availability, integrity and security.
• Data analytics: visualization, data discovery, metrics and reporting, plus the supporting infrastructure that analysis depends on.
• Data science: advanced analytics, predictive modeling and forecasting with early alerts when results drift from normal, and augmented analytics that draws on AI, NLP and machine learning.

Zero2Hero solutions

Zero2Hero (z2H), a trademarked results framework, sets Bardess apart from many consultancies. It pairs modern technologies with in-house accelerators and uses a "thin slice" method. That method aims for early, measurable wins while keeping down the infrastructure cost and complexity that often slow analytics programs. Several packaged offerings are built on this framework:

• An Analytics Stack that covers storage, data shaping, and visual and advanced analytics.
• Customer 360, which pulls customer data together to support personalization, retention and proactive care. Buyers can trial it through a 60-day proof of concept.
• CRMpowered, a set of connectors that combines separate CRM systems into one governed dashboard view.
• An FP&A Reporting solution for financial planning and analysis teams.

The firm also builds tools around Qlik. Text2Viz is built as a mashup on Qlik Sense and turns spoken or typed English requests into charts automatically. On Demand App Generation relies on extensions to Qlik Sense so users can create new analytics from ad-hoc interactions inside apps they already use. Bardess also lists Tangent Works automated forecasting, Qlik Cloud and AWS cloud readiness among its offerings.

Partners and approach

Bardess integrates technology from partners such as Qlik, Cloudera, Trifacta and Microsoft Azure. Its accelerators are meant to cut the trial and error that usually comes with assembling a big data stack. Solutions can be deployed on premises or in the cloud. The company stresses that its senior consultants bring functional and industry experience.

It also highlights flexible engagement models and cost-conscious delivery with a tangible return on investment. Typical work includes bringing data into everyday business processes, optimizing environments, moving workloads to the cloud and improving reporting for both business units and IT.

For buyers comparing BI providers in New Jersey, Bardess combines strategic advisory work, engineering depth and prebuilt Qlik-centered accelerators. That offering is backed by a long operating history and by its affiliation with Cleartelligence.