Data Warehouse Consulting Partners

Athena IT Solutions teams with other consulting firms to leverage their strengths and provide broader and deeper expertise to our mutual clients. Our mutual commitment to delivering the best service to our customers is the driving force behind these alliances.

Business Intelligence, Inc.

Business Intelligence, Inc. (BI) measurably improves client quality, productivity and efficiency through performance program guidance, assistance and training.

Athena IT Solutions teams with Business Intelligence, Inc. to provide industry-specific performance programs and analytics solutions. This partnership provides our customers with a unique combination of technology expertise and business solutions that saves time and expense, while delivering high value solutions that promote high performance.

Serving specific industries – Banking, Education, Government and Healthcare – the BI Center of Excellence (CoE) conducts research and provides training programs on industry-specific performance programs and the performance management, business intelligence and data warehouse – Performance Analytics – technologies that are required for these programs to deliver maximum value. The CoE Library provides members with access to templates for performance programs and enabling Performance Analytics, which are customized during implementation to minimize cost and time to value.

CONNECT: The Knowledge Network

CONNECT is a Colorado-based IT staffing company that has been involved in over 50 data warehousing projects over the last ten years. Their Knowledge Network includes over 300 consultants with data warehousing experience.

Athena IT Solutions teams with CONNECT for data warehousing and business intelligence projects outside the New England area. Rick Sherman has collaborated with CONNECT on several projects over the last fifteen years. These joint customer engagements have always provided a great match between customer needs and the consulting team’s skills and experience.

CONNECT's approach is to develop an in-depth understanding of the business problem to be solved, the functional and technical requirements of the system, and the desired timeframe in order to connect customers with the people, tools, and methodologies to ensure optimized performance and business results. CONNECT matches their methodology and approach to each client situation. CONNECT is tool- and methodology-independent, but adheres to a specific methodology and specific tools once they understand the client environment, including:

• Internal resources available to the project (number of resources and skill levels)
• The business problem to be solved
• The functional and technical requirements of the system and the desired timeframe.

Once they understand these client conditions, they determine the best consultants from their Knowledge Network.

CONNECT: The Knowledge Network was founded in 1992 to match the best IT professionals with the best IT jobs. Their business model is based on building a network of self-employed professionals that can be deployed for the right people on the right project. This business model has been very successful for clients and consultants. Their Knowledge Network includes over 300 consultants with data warehousing experience. They incorporate workforce effectiveness and human performance best practices into their approach and leverage their experience in organizational dynamics, culture, and integration specific to IT projects.

DataSense Solutions

DataSense Solutions is a Massachusetts-based IT consultancy specializing in business intelligence consulting and training. DataSense Solutions is a highly recognized Business Objects and Crystal gold partner based in the Boston area. They have extensive knowledge of both the Business Objects and Crystal Reports product lines, with more than 10 years of experience with each. Their consultants have a deep breadth of business, management and technical skills. Their clients range from small start-ups to recognizable name brands and Fortune 500 companies.

Athena IT Solutions teams with DataSense Solutions for business intelligence and data warehousing project. This partnership provides our customers with excellent business intelligence and data integration expertise enabling successful business and IT solutions.

The Amaral Group

TAG (The Amaral Group) is a Massachusetts-based IT consultancy specializing in providing design and implementation services to clients in networking, database, messaging, IT Security, wireless phones/networking, voice and Internet technologies.

Athena IT Solutions teams with TAG to expand the database (Oracle and Microsoft SQL Server) and Microsoft-based business intelligence solutions offered to our customers particularly in project implementations.

As a company, The Amaral Group, LLC is a Microsoft Certified Partner and is partnered with Oracle. Individually, TAG consultants are registered as Microsoft Certified Systems Engineers (MCSE) and Professionals (MCP) and Oracle Certified Professionals (OCP).