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

Adaptive Insights

Ironside’s partnership with Adaptive Insights enables you to use powerful, intuitive FP&A software in order to:

Empower your Office of Finance and your entire business operation to lead with insights
Realize all the advantages of an SaaS delivery model over traditional on-premises solutions
Transform your operation from manual processes and spreadsheets to leading-edge technologies that improve predictive forecasting models and KPI & balanced scorecard development

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

COO

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

Greg Bonnette

Principal, VP of Strategy & Innovation

Greg Bonnette thrives on the thrill of discovery. He oversees our R&D of analytics solutions that solve specific industry, functional, and situational challenges. His mission is to drive and nurture Ironside’s innovation culture, and to:

Bring new data-oriented concepts, products, and enterprise solutions to market to generate true business value
Guide you in far-ranging specialty areas, including planning, organizational design and competency centers, business analysis, data architecture, data mining, data visualization, user experience, and overall value recognition

John Skayne
VP of Finance

Michelle Arnold
VP of Marketing

Emily Kennedy
Director of People & Culture

Industry-leading awards and leadership recognition.

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

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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

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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

2016

Fastest Growing Companies #4167

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Receiving this honor for the fourth year in a row once again confirms that we’re continuing to execute at ideal levels. It reflects our commitment to both building our presence as a trusted advisor and filling our ranks with the brightest minds.

TIM KREYTAK
CEO
Ironside

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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

Adaptive Insights

Pitney Bowes

Tableau

Expert leadership

Tim Kreytak

David Michelson

Greg Bonnette

Industry-leading awards and leadership recognition.

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