Business Intelligence Companies & Consultants in North Charleston, SC

Modulant is an IT services and solutions firm whose work centers on helping organizations make sense of, connect and govern their data.

Its client base stretches from federal and state government agencies to large commercial enterprises in the Fortune 1000, and the company maintains offices in North Charleston and Charleston, South Carolina, along with locations in Dallas, Texas and Long Beach, California.

For buyers comparing Business Intelligence providers, Modulant is best understood as a data-centric integrator that pairs consulting and engineering with an IT talent practice.

Data and analytics capabilities

The core of the firm's offering is its Data Solutions practice.

On the data management side, Modulant handles strategic consulting, support for IT governance programs and automated approaches to data integration, and it positions itself as a partner for Big Data initiatives that must link very large data sets with newer storage platforms and the analytics and sharing tools a business already runs.

Its specialists work across older mainframe-era environments, enterprise warehouses and emerging Big Data technologies. Published case studies describe a data quality improvement project for a major U.S. bank, focused on making QA test data more representative of production, and a data strategy and governance engagement for a centralized IT organization.

• Data management, data quality and data governance
• Data integration and systems integration across incompatible platforms
• Big Data strategy and implementation
• Custom software and mobile application development
• Mobile marketing and social analytics
• IT and engineering staffing

Products and specialties

Beyond services, Modulant offers the Contextia SKY Platform, a tool for real-time customer engagement that combines Wi-Fi network data, social media activity and enterprise system records to reveal how customers behave and what they prefer.

The company markets this mobile marketing and social analytics capability to retailers, entertainment and sports venues, arenas and airports; one case study covers a warehouse-sale event company that used social Wi-Fi to grow its customer contact lists.

Industry pages highlight federal government, state and local government, retail, financial services, insurance and healthcare, and the site displays logos from defense, banking, health insurance and retail organizations.

Approach and delivery

Modulant describes a business-led method intended to connect strategy with execution, so that business and technical stakeholders can jointly shape a solution that resolves conflicting technologies, duplicated records and data defects. Its consultants aim to absorb domain knowledge quickly and give every stakeholder a clear picture of how systems and data support specific business processes.

The firm can run full development lifecycles, covering everything from gathering requirements to testing, user training and ongoing support, with teams of architects, analysts, developers and consultants.

Credentials and staffing

A distinguishing credential is that its Charleston facility has been appraised at Level 3 of the CMMI Institute's Capability Maturity Model Integration for software and product development, and the company states that it brings similar discipline to its integration and data work, with Department of Defense software projects cited as an example.

The website also displays a Microsoft partner badge and lists federal contract vehicles.

Its staffing arm recruits IT and engineering professionals for direct-hire roles, contract assignments and contract-to-hire arrangements, which lets clients add specialized data talent alongside or apart from a project engagement, as shown in a case where it located a scarce emerging-technology skill set for a large healthcare organization.