Business Intelligence Companies & Consultants in De Pere, WI

The Lake Companies is a software developer and Infor SyteLine reseller headquartered in De Pere, Wisconsin, close to Green Bay. Its clientele is limited to discrete manufacturers, with a concentration in the Midwest. Rather than offering broad analytics consulting, the firm builds reporting and shop-floor software that sits on top of the SyteLine ERP, and it also sells and implements the ERP itself.

Analytics and reporting

The firm's flagship business intelligence product is Fact-Trak, formerly known as Enterprise Analytics for SyteLine. It queries the SyteLine database directly, which removes the need for data exports, ETL pipelines or scheduled refreshes. Output appears in Power BI dashboards, each tailored to a particular role:

• Finance leaders see profit and loss that reflects both posted and unposted transactions.
• Operations executives track throughput and the reasons jobs run late.
• Plant managers review equipment effectiveness by shift and work center.
• Quality and purchasing teams examine scrap trends and vendor scorecards.

Alerts allow managers to react to scrap spikes or cost overruns within the same shift rather than waiting for a weekly report. The company states that first dashboards usually go live within 30 to 45 days, with every role covered by roughly day 90, and that no data warehouse project is involved.

The broader platform

Fact-Trak belongs to Lake's MES Platform, a set of in-house shop-floor applications:

• Shop-Trak captures labor and job activity at each work center.
• Doc-Trak manages drawing revisions and document workflow, including AI-assisted filing of scanned pages.
• Machine-Trak links to equipment and reports OEE, utilization and downtime.
• Quality-Trak covers nonconformances, corrective actions and change workflows; it came to Lake through an acquisition from ProTrack.
• Vantage is a command-center product that the company plans to release in early 2027.

Customers may purchase Fact-Trak by itself. Adding Shop-Trak feeds floor-level data about labor, machines and scrap into the dashboards. Lake also provides SyteLine optimization, scheduling and capacity planning assistance, compliance support for defense contractors, assessments, product demonstrations and OnTrak, a training program designed to keep users skilled after go-live.

Markets and working style

The company concentrates on aerospace and defense, industrial equipment makers, metalworking shops, medical device producers, automotive supply firms and high-tech electronics. Engagements typically begin with an examination of the client's operation instead of a sales pitch. The senior consultants who define the scope remain involved through delivery, and many have prior manufacturing operations experience.

At the outset, Lake and the client agree on a handful of measures, such as schedule adherence, labor capture and month-end close duration, and the company continues to monitor them after launch.

Background

Founded in January 1983 as Advanced Data Management Systems, the company has stayed with one ERP lineage as it passed from Symix and Frontstar to Infor. Today it is owned by Banyan Software and led by CEO Chris Orr. Lake holds Infor Gold Channel Partner status and won Infor's 2025 award for resell growth.

It reports more than 650 manufacturers currently using its software and over 1,000 served in total. Its IoT capabilities grew further with the acquisition of Freedom IoT.