We make data accessible and digestible

Hi, my name is Mike and I’m a business intelligence engineer. What that really means is that I help businesses see data from their different data systems in centralised dashboards. 

I started Intrava to solve the data integration problem that grinds most dashboard projects to a halt.

Showing data from different databases in a dashboard is not hard, creating useful and reliable insights is. It may sound like bridging this gap is a short and relatively straight forward endeavour. Trust me, it is not.

Once you discover that your dashboard only shows raw data, doesn’t account for all the business rules that apply to your data, and cannot slice and dice the data the way you want it, you will come to the inevitable conclusion that you need a database optimised for analysis (data warehouse) sitting between your databases and your dashboards.

When you’ve made that conclusion your next step will be to find data integration and data warehouse resources who can build the data platform that will ultimately power your dashboards. They will write all system integrations, data transformations, data warehouse modules and dashboards from scratch and measure their delivery time in years. 

As you can imagine, this gets very expensive. Moreover, because you have all kinds of hidden business rules in your data their original timeline will in hindsight look like wishful thinking. It is not because they are bad at what they do. They just don’t know what they don’t know. And neither do you. 

The way we solve this problem is by focusing on a single industry. Through our vertical approach we have distilled the implementation process of a BI platform for real estate companies down to a science. Enabling us to automate most of the process.

Sincerely,

Mike van Thiel