Business Intelligence Companies & Consultants in Addison, TX

Sparkfish is a data and software consulting firm based in Addison, Texas, in the Dallas area. It focuses on companies whose information is spread across many systems. A typical client has grown through acquisitions and now runs several ERPs that do not share data, so financial and operational reports from different entities fail to agree. Sparkfish brings those scattered sources together into one trusted reporting foundation that leadership can use for decisions.

Who They Serve

The firm targets the middle market. It does not pursue Fortune 500 enterprises or early-stage technology startups. Most clients have private equity backing, although that is not required. What they tend to share is fragmentation after acquisitions, with disconnected platforms and numbers that cannot be reconciled across business units. Sparkfish says it works mainly in regulated industries with heavy reporting needs, fixed deadlines and small internal data teams.

Services and Technology

Sparkfish describes its offering as seven distinct ways to extend a client's data function. Each engagement is scoped around one defined result. New clients usually start with whichever problem is holding up the rest of their data work. The work centers on integration, consolidation and reporting, and draws on a mostly Microsoft-oriented toolset:

• Power BI as the main reporting and dashboard platform
• Microsoft Fabric as the preferred data platform for Microsoft-based clients
• Databricks for more demanding data engineering workloads
• Tableau, including moving clients to another platform when that is a better fit
• IBM AS/400 for extracting data from legacy systems
• Microsoft Azure and SQL Server for cloud infrastructure and database work
• NetSuite, one of the ERPs the firm often consolidates

How They Work

Projects follow a set sequence. The team first deals with the most pressing issues, then carries out a plan built for the client's environment. Work is done by small, closely coordinated pods instead of large program teams or individual contractors. A typical pod includes a data architect, a data engineer and a business and data analyst.

The architect maps the systems and sets the design. The engineer builds the pipelines and handles migrations. The analyst connects the technical work to business questions, running queries and building reports. The client has one point of contact, and the work does not pass between separate groups.

Senior staff work directly inside the client's systems with little ramp-up time. They build together with internal staff and coach them during the project, so knowledge stays in-house. Sparkfish sets up its projects as capital investments, meaning the client owns the finished work and can lower its ongoing operating costs.

Background and Approach

The founders started Sparkfish, legally Sparkfish LLC, after seeing how much is lost between companies and their outside development vendors, and they designed the firm to close that gap. Its stated mission is to solve hard problems with closely integrated teams and clear communication. Its vision is that executives should not have to assemble technical teams themselves.

Prospective clients can book a short introductory call with an engineer rather than a salesperson, who will judge whether the problem suits the firm.