Consulting

Your data architecture.
The expertise to implement it.

Bring us in for guidance, hands-on implementation, or staff augmentation. We help deliver any data layer or the whole platform, using the tools and standards that fit your organization.

Consulting packages

Consulting shaped around your needs.

Flexible packages of consulting hours for focused work, project delivery, or ongoing support.

  • Guidance & planning

    Review your architecture, clarify requirements, and define a practical plan.

  • Implementation & customization

    Build, configure, or extend any part of your data platform to fit your standards.

  • Ongoing delivery & support

    Add expertise alongside your team for longer-term work, including staff augmentation.

Let’s scope the work together.

Tell us what you need. We’ll recommend a package and agree the scope, hours, and pricing with you before work begins.

Plan your package

Expertise behind the work

What your consulting time can deliver.

Architecture & modernization

Typical outputs: platform review, target architecture, and an implementation roadmap.

Explore the approach

Data engineering & automation

Typical outputs: source pipelines, Raw and Business Vault models, reusable loading patterns, and operational checks.

See the integration pattern

BI & semantic modeling

Typical outputs: dimensional models, shared measures, access rules, and validation for Power BI and Excel.

See shared models in use

Conversational analytics

Typical outputs: Copilot and data-agent configuration, business context, and answer evaluation against governed semantic models.

See the foundation for AI

Platform experience

Considerable experience in SQL Server, Azure Synapse, and Microsoft Fabric, plus implementation experience in Databricks and Snowflake.

C# & .NET engineering

Services, integrations, deployment automation, and operational tooling for requirements beyond native platform capabilities.

Business understanding

Experience in education, healthcare, and retail, working with your experts to connect business definitions to technical decisions.

Certifications and partnership

Credentials behind the work.

Our team includes certified specialists in data modeling, Azure architecture, and application development. Pointer Consulting is also a certified WhereScape partner.

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Certified Data Vault
Practitioners

Model business keys, relationships, and history with established Data Vault patterns.

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Microsoft-certifiedAzure Solutions Architect Experts

Translate the warehouse design into a secure, maintainable Azure platform.

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Microsoft-certifiedSolution Developers

Build the APIs, applications, and integration services around the data platform.

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Certified WhereScape
Partner

Implement and extend warehouse automation with WhereScape 3D and RED.

Optional expertise / Certified WhereScape partner

Automation shaped
to your standards.

We bring years of experience implementing WhereScape 3D and RED for quicker builds and rich lineage. Consulting can cover purchase coordination, configuration, implementation, support, and upgrades.

Plan your WhereScape consulting

Customizations we can apply through consulting.

  • Bronze / ODS automation

    Build out the Bronze layer in hours. Reuse generation and loading patterns.

  • Dynamic incremental loading

    Use source settings and lineage to drive full or incremental loads.

  • Naming & model standards

    Carry your conventions into generated ODS, Vault, and star-schema assets.

  • Data Vault templates

    Adapt hub, link, and satellite conversions and loading patterns.