Business Intelligence & Data Analytics from Data Monsters
We are Data Monsters: a pair of magical humans who turn your chaotic data into clever, compelling and commercially useful information.... fast. When you need lovely techies to explain complex processes in straightforward language over a cup of tea, we're the people you call.
There's Magic In Data
We help you answer business questions with data
Our unique approach combines extensive technology, marketing and commercial experience with data and analysis expertise to deliver outstanding value for your business. We help you unlock the potential in your data - wherever it is - so you can make evidence-based decisions. Whether you want to automate data loads into a data lake (or puddle) or you're just starting out with cross-data visualisations, we can help you get there faster. No faff, no nonsense, just results.
Data Strategy
Are you drowning in Excel spreadsheets? Spending hours doing vlookups and manual hacking to get your monthly numbers? Maybe someone's told you about a new shiny tool called PowerBI that's 'free' with Office365! You need no nonsense data strategy support. We'll work with you to build a picture (an actual picture) that shows your data, and we'll figure out the best way to get insight from it quickly.
Data Wizardry
Data tends to live in silos. It hides in spreadsheets, in systems, in emails, on servers, and sometimes in databases. Our data wizards will work their magic to get your data out of the silos, and into a centralised, secure and controlled place where you can start to tidy it up. This is the area businesses find most challenging - it's the missing piece between an architect and the analytics.
Data Automation
We're big believers in testing and learning, and we always start small. However, when you know what works, we'll help you automate it. We understand API documentation and can translate it for you, and we'll even handle the technical conversations with third party suppliers. Whether your systems are 20 years old and creaking, or modern and scary, we'll help you automate the mundane so you can spend more time where it really counts.
Data Quality
Nothing is ever perfect. There's always a compromise between how your users want to share data, and how you want to report on it. We're pragmatists, and we'll help you assess your data quality challenges and highlight where fixing them will make a material difference to the insight you can get. We live by the 80/20 rule and we know you do too, so the action plan we'll build together will be sensible, realistic and explainable.
Data Visualisation
We'll help you work out what questions you want to answer, and the best data points to help you get there. We'll then build a suite of clear, easy to use dashboards that give you the numbers you need. We will insist you start small because in our experience, people never know what they want till they have something. Your dashboards will look beautiful, but more importantly they'll help you run your business and make better decisions.
We already know you have questions, or you wouldn't have got this far!
What don't you do?
If you're looking for a partner to go on a death march with you and deliver a giant Prince2 managed project, we're not the company for you. You need a large, probably offshore, IT company and some very deep pockets. We wish you all the best, but it's not for us.
How fast do you get results?
Our current record is delivering a PowerBI dashboard, complete with data tidying (transformation, in techie speak) in a weekend. We work in days not weeks, and weeks not months. It's longer if you're in a real mess, and shorter if you've done some work already. We'd love to beat the record!
How much does it cost?
We charge £550 a day, plus VAT. That's the same rate whether you're working with an analyst, a data engineer, or a report builder. There are discounts for bulk buying days, and we'll always estimate up front once we know what we're dealing with. Our goal is to get you self sufficient so we can move on, not to lock you into expensive, painful projects.
Who we work with
Trusted by brilliant brands
Insight-powered business transformation
We love data. The unlocked potential it contains is huge and we can't think of anything better than helping you turn it into actionable insights. We've seen firsthand the positive impact real business intelligence can have on an organisation and it's our mission to spread the joy.
Next steps...
- Get in touch with us. We're monsters but we don't....byte
- Virtual whiteboard data therapy session - tell us your problems, we'll listen.
- Action plan and quote.... then the fun begins!
Ready to chat?
If you're ready to start a beautiful adventure with us, please get in touch. We'll get back to you as quickly as we can to schedule an introduction call. If you're really keen, we can get straight into the whiteboard session.
Stories
We don't write often - we're busy - but when we do, we can promise you entertaining stories and tantalising tips.
June 24 2021
Telling Stories With Data
I have been thinking about dashboards a lot recently – maybe I have been perusing the Euros 2020 app a bit too much (the data they hold about matches and players is fascinating). The key to a good dashboard is how fast somebody looking at it can pick up the underlying message – it isn’t [...]
February 16 2021
How can data make Product Managers more awesome?
The role of a product manager isn’t easy. We have to deliver a great customer experience, a great user experience (they’re not always the same!) and make money. Ideally, lots of money. That money might be made immediately and quickly, or it might come at some point in the future, but ultimately, the product needs [...]
December 19 2020
5 things a dashboard should be (and 5 it really shouldn’t)
At Data Monsters we talk about Dashboards a lot. You probably hear them mentioned in business (and technical) conversations at work. Often it’s slipped into a sentence “We need that in a dashboard” or “Can we set up a weekly dashboard for the sales results?”. Many people use the term Dashboard to mean any display [...]