We’re about the business results you want — and need.

A proven approach based on two decades of applied experience.

EXPERIENCE DESIGN

Combine the design-thinking world with business practicality.

Design it right—and they will come. With our Experience Design, your stakeholders will find your solution accessible, useable and ideal for yielding valuable, interpretable results at high speed. There’s no better way to increase User Adoption.

USE CASE DRIVEN

Provide real-world solutions to your most pressing issues.

Theory can take you only so far. Ironside’s Use Case Driven approach is built around actual challenges as they exist in business today, and delivers pragmatic, pressure-tested solutions that show you where and how to direct your efforts.

TECHNICAL DEPTH

Translate what we hear into a finely-calibrated way forward.

Nothing is lost in translation. We’ll take our learnings about your organization’s unique data & analytics capabilities and transform them into an actionable, prescriptive, and descriptive roadmap.

INDUSTRY EXPERTISE

Offer hands-on experience across diverse industries.

You can rely on us as a proven data and analytics practitioner in your industry:

Financial Services

P&C Insurance

Retail & Wholesale Distribution

Manufacturing

Higher Education

Healthcare Payer & Provider

Our strategic partners. Your success.

IBM

As a long-standing IBM Premier Business Partner and recipient of numerous IBM partner awards, Ironside is proud to:

Design and implement enterprise business analytics solutions with cutting-edge IBM technology
Offer fully-hosted and managed IBM-powered analytics solutions on our cloud platform
Provide comprehensive training for the IBM Business Analytics software portfolio, with both Public and Private classes available
Perform Enterprise Impact Assessments for Cognos Analytics Migration

DataRobot

Ironside’s partnership with DataRobot enables you to democratize data science skills throughout an organization in order to:

Enable business users to function as citizen data scientists and inject AI and machine learning into every key business decision
Reduce experimentation cost and risk by reducing cycle times
Create more leverage scale from existing data science resources and enable the organization to up-skill existing talent

Pitney Bowes

By partnering with Pitney Bowes, Ironside gives you access to the proven leader in geospatial data, allowing you to:

More fully understand the complex relationship between location and data in order to maximize ROI
Put billions of proprietary data points at your disposal, including business, geographic and industry-specific data that covers 250 countries and territories
Make data your differentiator as you gain new insights into your customer segments and improve your decision-making

Tableau

Based on our partnership with Tableau, Ironside offers you a data discovery strategy to complement your traditional BI practice, so you can:

Put robust and extensible options for data discovery at your fingertips—ideal for encouraging widespread exploration and generating informed action
Get trusted, consumable, and shareable insights out of your data resources at the speed of business
Address the challenges you face with the advent of bimodal analytics and its introduction into your analytics ecosystems

Expert Leadership

Tim Kreytak

CEO, Co-Founder, Principal Consultant

Tim Kreytak is the spark that got Ironside started. He has led Ironside from its inception and helped us become a leader in the North American analytics community, including multiple years honored on the INC 5000. In addition to charting Ironside’s strategic direction, Tim also:

Manages executive-level partnerships
Serves as an active information/Analytics Architect, much as he’s done for 20 years
Specializes in large-scale implementations and driving user adoption

David Michelson

Chief Operating Officer

David Michelson is a renowned strategic and technical thought leader. His 20 years in the analytics space have given him deep industry knowledge that enables him to drive business transformation, process redesign, and organizational optimization. He currently:

Brings us extensive experience from Deloitte, the Monitor Group, and Tata Consultancy Services
Spearheads Ironside’s professional services efforts
Speaks publicly on helping clients achieve transformational change that creates real value

John Longmire

Chief Revenue Officer

John Longmire is a sales leader with a combination of software and services-based solution experience. His 25 years in the analytics space gives him the expertise to help clients align their business needs with better business outcomes. He currently:

Is responsible for overseeing the sales organization and supporting Ironside’s growth
Helps clients uncover the tangible value of their data, their analytics, and their people
Promotes customer-focused approach for analytics and data management

John Skayne
VP of Finance

Michelle Arnold
VP of Marketing

Emily Kennedy
Director of People & Culture

Industry-leading awards and leadership recognition.

2019

Recognized as AI for Analytics
Consultant

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Ironside consulting is not in the business of being in your facility and actually implementing business analytics. They want to enable organizations to do that. That was the thing that resonated with us with Ironside.

AMIT PATEL
Manager of Business Analytics
Coverys

2017

Recognized as Strategy Consultant
in Customer Analytics

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Traditional strategy consultancies have invested in data-science talent for advanced analytics, but they also offer guidance on often missing—people and processes…Ironside now offer tactical analytics to complement its strategic offerings.

FORRESTER
Vendor Landscape:
Customer Analytics Service Providers

2017

Most Innovative with
Data as a Differentiator

“

Ironside is a proven expert in data analytics… This award signifies the value we see in our partnership and the innovation that is possible by bringing our data together with their analytic capabilities.

MARK TAYLOR
Senior VP of Software Channels, Pitney Bowes

2016

Beacon Award Finalist

“

We started using to figure out where to put personnel to prevent crimes. We saw amazing results when it came to armed robberies of corner stores. It was actually a springboard to a level where we’ll have algorithms to feed all of our information to our people.

NICK WILLARD
Chief of Police
City of Manchester, NH

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We’re about the business results you want — and need.

A proven approach based on two decades of applied experience.

EXPERIENCE DESIGN

Combine the design-thinking world with business practicality.

USE CASE DRIVEN

Provide real-world solutions to your most pressing issues.

TECHNICAL DEPTH

Translate what we hear into a finely-calibrated way forward.

INDUSTRY EXPERTISE

Offer hands-on experience across diverse industries.

Our strategic partners. Your success.

IBM

DataRobot

Pitney Bowes

Tableau

Expert Leadership

Tim Kreytak

David Michelson

John Longmire

Industry-leading awards and leadership recognition.

2019

2017

2017

2016

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