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 partners. Your success.

IBM

Take a look at all of our IBM offerings here. 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

Precisely

By partnering with Precisely, 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

AWS

Learn more about our AWS Ascent Solutions suite. As an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner, with enterprise business intelligence and artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) expertise, let us help you:

Deploy data management aligned with AWS ProServ Advisory Governance@Scale
Leverage Amazon QuickSight capabilities and Ironside migration methodologies to meet your enterprise reporting needs
Accelerate your path to AI with Ironside’s pre-integrated AWS environment and data scientists, Ascend AI

Microsoft

As a Microsoft Gold Partner with expertise in Data and Analytics, let us help you bring your data to life and:

Apply design thinking principles to Power BI dashboard and reporting projects, including our ‘Dashboard in 10 Days’ service
Advise and implement Power BI projects with best practices for security, licensing, usage and monitoring
Leverage Ironside’s enterprise BI expertise, for reporting assessment and cloud migration efforts

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

Paul Hardy

Executive Vice President of Professional Services

Paul brings over twenty-five years of consulting and P&L experience, selling and delivering transformation services encompassing strategy, people, process, partnerships and technology to clients of all sizes and across multiple industries. He currently:

Oversees all of Ironside’s service practice areas: Data Advisory, Information Management, Business Analytics, Advanced Analytics & AI, and Managed Services
Assists our clients as they manage, govern and flourish with the abundance of data accessible in a well-architected analytics strategy
Implements data strategy and methodologies for successful digital transformation and revenue expansion

Mike Chadwick

Executive Vice President, Growth & Business Development

As the new Executive Vice President of Growth and Business Development, Mike Chadwick brings a wealth of knowledge and over thirty years of experience that will undoubtedly contribute to The Ironside Group’s continued success and commitment to delivering innovative solutions for our clients.

Throughout his career, Mike has firmly believed in the power of collaboration between business and IT. He has successfully overseen multiple innovative solutions, enabling businesses to become more effective and profitable. His guiding principle has always been to help clients succeed by consistently doing what is right for them.

Most recently, Mike was the Senior Director of BFSI Sales at Brillio. He also served as Partner and SVP of Sales and Business Development at Cedrus Digital, Chief Operating Officer, Co-Founder and Board Member at Wurk, VP of Business Development at PointSource, EVP of Business Intelligence at Affinity Global, and EVP of Business Development at Prolifics.

Industry-leading awards and leadership recognition.

2022

Amazon QuickSight Service Delivery
AWS Advanced Consulting Partner Since 2020

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This achievement is a reflection of Ironside’s dedication to helping our clients thrive on AWS. We focus on all aspects of managing, delivering and governing data with the purpose of driving business value via an outcome-focused approach to leveraging modern technology.

TIM KREYTAK
CEO, Co-Founder, Ironside

2020

Partner of the Year Award & Most Innovative
with Data as a Differentiator Award

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Ironside’s simplified and innovative approach to data enrichment helps enable Precisely customers to achieve data integrity and make confident decisions with AI, Machine Learning and Analytics.

JOSH ROGERS
Chief Executive Officer, Precisely

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.

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