Business Intelligence Companies & Consultants in Glen Allen, VA

Solvaria is an IT consultancy based in the Richmond, Virginia area. Its main office is in Glen Allen, and it has a second address in Richmond. The company was founded in 1997 and later rebranded under the Solvaria name. It focuses on enterprise data: managed database administration, cloud platforms, data security and business intelligence.

Organizations comparing BI providers will find that Solvaria treats analytics as part of a wider data stack, covering the databases, pipelines and cloud infrastructure that reporting depends on.

Business Intelligence and Analytics

Solvaria's BI and analytics practice is split into several service lines. Clients can hand off day-to-day upkeep of their reporting environments, or bring Solvaria in to design and build new data foundations. Dashboard and report development is centered on Microsoft Power BI. The engineering work covers cloud data platforms and repositories.

• BI managed services to keep reporting systems accurate and tuned over time
• Analytics and visualization, including Power BI dashboards and reports
• Data engineering and integration, including cloud data engineering and data repository engineering
• ELT and ETL pipeline development
• Data lake and integration work using Azure Data Factory, Databricks and Snowflake
• Fractional CIO services for organizations that need senior technology leadership without hiring a full-time executive

Database and Cloud Foundations

A large share of Solvaria's work is database administration. Its MMT/365 offering provides round-the-clock monitoring and support for managed databases. Its MMT/VantagePoint assessment gives a one-time review of performance gaps, risks and tuning opportunities. The firm supports a wide range of platforms, including SQL Server, Oracle Database, PostgreSQL, MySQL, DB2/UDB, MariaDB, Ingres and SAP HANA.

This covers both older and current enterprise systems. On the cloud side, Solvaria offers managed services for Azure, AWS, and Oracle Cloud and Exadata, along with hybrid and multicloud architecture design. It also handles migrations, including moves from Oracle to PostgreSQL and from Oracle to Snowflake for analytics workloads. DevOps support for GitHub and Azure rounds out the platform services.

Security and Resilience

Solvaria also does data protection work. This includes aligning systems with CIS Benchmarks, hardening database configurations and access controls, governing cloud environments, and planning backup and recovery. For BI buyers, this means the same provider can look after the security and availability of the systems that feed their dashboards.

Industries Served

Solvaria highlights experience in these sectors:

• Distribution and logistics
• Finance
• Healthcare
• Manufacturing
• Specialty insurance

The company publishes case studies, whitepapers, videos and podcasts on topics such as BI and data warehousing ROI, multicloud database security and remote database administration. Its main distinction from analytics-only firms is its long history in database administration and cloud operations. Buyers who want reporting, data engineering and the underlying databases handled by one Virginia-based partner may find that useful.