Hello!
This is our first blog to welcome you all
to a new data analytics consultancy in the UK…
We are excited….really excited. It presents
the culmination of months of discussions and bringing together the very best
skills aligned to the right market strategy.
We are the hippies of the BI world,
rebelling against the machine. Though less flower power, more the use of great
alternatives, great talent, great enthusiasm.
Apart from my love of commercial products
like the ‘Ipad’, the team always look for the open tools, the commercially
viable closed tools, the more scalable, the lesser cost, the BETTER tools.
To borrow a clichéd overused sales line….
We want value for our clients. We deliver value, we retain our clients and
build our business.
IVY may be in its infancy, but it combines
three IT consultancies combining over 40 years Business Intelligence (BI) and
Data Analytics experience. A member of our executive team was working BI
projects when BI was yet to be termed by anyone. It was called an ‘Executive
Information System’.
We currently have skills in Pentaho,
Talend, Actuate, Vectorwise, Mongo DB and are close to acquiring skills in
Hadoop, Yellowfin, MapR and more.
There are clearly no mega vendors in there,
no huge license fees; it presents a challenge in a procurement process. It is
still seen (naively) as risk adverse to go with an SAP stack… in some cases it
is, they have some great stuff…but there are many examples of organisations
locked in to their contracts, too expensive to change (though there is a desire
to) and large amounts of shelf-ware.
It’s not just the cost, our clients love
our solutions and they love working with us.
This brings me nicely to my next point. We
talk to our customers like people, we are professional with a clear structure
on delivery and support but we talk like human beings. You can spot an IBM’er
from a mile off…once again we want to buck the trend, do things our way.
So we like being different, we are excited
about what we are doing and where this is going.
We are launching today and hopefully we
continue this success and help enable our customers to be.
