Business Intelligence Companies & Consultants in Dallas, TX

Nexus Data Works is a Dallas-based business intelligence consultancy, run as Nexus Data Works LLC. Its main focus is Microsoft Power BI. The firm mostly works with finance and operations leaders at mid-sized organizations. It serves companies in North Texas and also takes on clients across the United States.

It also works for public-sector buyers: the firm is registered in SAM, holds Minority Business Enterprise and HUBZone credentials, and publishes a capabilities statement listing its NAICS and PSC codes for government purchasing.

What the firm does

Nexus Data Works mainly helps companies whose reporting has fallen behind their growth. Typical problems include accounting, CRM, payroll and operations systems that don't share data, teams arguing over conflicting figures, weekly report work done by hand in spreadsheets, and reports that only one analyst understands. The firm also helps organizations that already pay for Power BI but whose executives have gone back to Excel. Its services include:

• Power BI consulting covering data modeling, executive dashboards and leadership reporting
• BI strategy work, including a maturity assessment, gap analysis, governance and KPI ownership model, and a twelve-month roadmap
• Data warehouses built in the client's own Azure tenant when data comes from several systems
• Power BI reporting for companies that use Sage Intacct
• An AI readiness review that ranks use cases by expected return and sets out a 90-day plan
• AI and automation work to reduce repetitive tasks and add generative AI to daily operations
• Placement of BI, IT and business consultants on an as-needed basis

How engagements work

The firm calls its method the Decision-First BI Framework. Projects start with the business result leadership wants, not with the database. The team then works out what different roles need, such as a CFO compared with a department director. Each dashboard is planned as a story that moves from goals to headline KPIs, then trends, then the factors driving them.

Clients approve clickable wireframes built on their own data before any DAX code is written. Delivery is phased so the most valuable report goes live first. Strategy work uses a separate four-phase method called the Business Intelligence Blueprint. Many clients start with a free reporting assessment so they know what needs fixing before paying for a build.

Track record and credentials

The firm publishes case studies. One describes a general contractor with about $100M in revenue that saved an estimated $1.2M a year, resolved claims 37 percent faster, and reached 80 percent executive adoption. In another, a freight carrier spent 87 percent less time on weekly reporting.

A financial services client combined three systems into one data source and reached full dashboard adoption within a month. Earlier projects listed in its capabilities statement include work for an energy and infrastructure company, an ASX-listed oil and gas explorer, a security systems provider and a car dealership.

Nexus Data Works was founded in 2021 and is led by Nahom Assefa. It describes its delivery as senior-led, says its Power BI staff hold Microsoft certifications, and is a member of the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program. Buyers who want a small, specialized Power BI partner that designs dashboards around executive decisions may find it a good fit.