Business Intelligence Companies & Consultants in Akron, OH

FortisureIT is a technology firm in Akron, Ohio, that pairs advisory work with hands-on engineering in analytics, data platforms, cloud services and custom software. It says it serves smaller and mid-sized companies, mid-market firms and startups that want to expand their technology capabilities without taking on the overhead of a large enterprise vendor.

The firm calls itself a US-led engineering partner for growing organizations, and it answers yes when asked whether it is both an IT services provider and a consulting practice.

Business intelligence and analytics

The analytics practice begins with a plain observation: many growing businesses are not short of information, but keep it in too many places, with each source giving a different answer. FortisureIT presents its work as simplification, not elaborate charting. The team builds and refines Power BI dashboards, data models and reports so that data moves cleanly, performs well and stays consistent across reports. Its offering includes:

• Data models that stay clean as the business scales
• Dashboards designed for senior leadership
• Role-based access for different audiences
• Reports embedded inside everyday software
• Custom dashboards, predictive analytics and performance metrics

The company frames its pitch around five common complaints: sources that contradict one another, tracking that fails to prompt action, reports that arrive too late to matter, leaders and teams seeing different views, and an understanding of the past without a sense of what is coming.

It says that once reporting is brought into a single view, leadership trusts the numbers more, meetings run shorter, decisions become clearer, and staff spend less time compiling reports and can investigate findings without waiting on others. Weak spots in the organization also become easier to see.

The firm also distinguishes between two related disciplines. Business intelligence, in its explanation, describes what has already happened through dashboards and metrics, while analytics digs further to explain causes and anticipate what may follow.

Data foundations

FortisureIT argues that forecasting, dashboards and automated reporting all fail when the underlying data cannot be trusted, so it offers services beneath the analytics layer. It names several obstacles: data locked in systems that will not share it, spreadsheets moved by hand, conflicting figures between teams, neglected pipelines, and postponed migrations caused by missing documentation.

Its integration method runs in four stages: identifying source systems and their owners, designing real-time pipelines, building workflows that tolerate errors, and delivering validated data. Warehouses are meant to mirror real business operations, support forecasting, grow without being rebuilt, and satisfy security and compliance needs.

Migration is handled as a phased, controlled effort rather than one sudden lift-and-shift. The approach involves auditing data and dependencies, planning cutovers with ways to roll back, checking accuracy throughout, protecting live operations, and changing schemas only when there is a clear benefit. Typical projects move on-premises systems to the cloud, replace legacy platforms, or turn spreadsheets into databases.

Wider services and how clients engage

Beyond data work, FortisureIT lists cloud services such as migration, hybrid strategy, infrastructure as code and managed services, plus web and mobile applications, API integrations, UI/UX design, architecture and process automation. Clients can start small, from a free assessment or an MVP build to long-term managed delivery, and they have direct access to engineers. Engineering leadership and client-facing staff are US-based, and a capability center in India adds capacity while keeping costs efficient.

One testimonial, from a vice president of analytics and asset management at a US senior living and healthcare organization, describes moving from siloed data and manual Excel reporting to a centralized warehouse and custom dashboards that give real-time visibility. The company also describes itself as socially responsible, aiming to bring high-value engineering work to overlooked cities and support sustainable communities.