BI & Data Analytics Consulting: numbers your team steers by

It depends on the scope. The main cost drivers are how many KPIs and metric definitions we need to agree on, how many data sources feed them, how many dashboards you need and whether a data warehouse already exists. Another driver is how many review rounds each metric definition needs. We usually plan for one. In a free discovery call we clarify your needs and outline what a project could look like. For eligible SMEs, BAFA funding can cover part of the consulting costs.

How long a BI project takes depends mostly on how quickly your teams agree on KPI definitions, how many data sources are involved and how many dashboards are in scope. A discovery usually takes about three weeks with around five consulting days. A first build with a few dashboards recently took about two months, a larger finance reporting setup around eleven weeks. We work out the timeline for your project in the discovery call.

Yes. Our clients have between 30 and 15,000 employees, most of them 50 to 200, and our case studies show growing companies like Glow25, Maniko and Natsana. BI consulting pays off most when your team has more requests than capacity and decisions wait on dashboards. For SMEs, BAFA funding can apply on top.

Among others dbt, Snowflake, Google BigQuery, Power BI, Looker, Tableau, Metabase and Lightdash. Which tools fit depends on your setup and your team.

BI and data analytics consulting delivers the numbers your teams steer by: KPI and metric design, dashboards, reporting and deeper analysis. Data Apps & Infrastructure builds what sits underneath: pipelines, the warehouse and the infrastructure. Often you need both, and we cover both in one team.

We are a consultancy that builds the solution ourselves and keeps running it if you want, which is what many people expect from a business intelligence agency or a data analytics agency. We start with your metrics and the decisions you make with them, and the dashboards come after that.

We build business intelligence solutions from the KPI system to the finished dashboard: reporting for management, self-service dashboards for business teams and deep dives, for example into margin per product or marketing attribution. Depending on your setup we use Lightdash, Power BI, Looker, Tableau or Metabase.

Yes. Data strategy consulting is part of our work, along with tool decisions, upskilling and hiring support. It usually starts with a short discovery: interviews, a look at the source systems and, at the end, a prioritised KPI set with a recommendation for the next technical step. We can then implement the data strategy with the same team.

Analytics engineering, meaning turning raw data into tested metrics with tools such as dbt, is mostly offered by specialised data consultancies in Germany. Gemma Analytics is one of them: we build dbt projects that hold your agreed KPI definitions as code, with a senior team based in Berlin.

Quite possibly, for BI projects too. Gemma Analytics is registered with BAFA as a consulting company. For eligible SMEs, the programme covers up to 50% (up to 80% in the new federal states) of eligible consulting costs as a non-repayable grant, up to a maximum amount. The application has to be approved before the project starts, and we walk you through it at no charge.