Data strategy and analytics built for your industries
Effective data strategy and analytics must reflect the realities of each industry. A utility, healthcare system, manufacturer, or distributor all operate with different regulatory, operational, and customer demands. Since 2008, DI Squared has helped organizations across utilities, healthcare and life sciences, manufacturing, retail and distribution, financial services, and energy build data foundations and analytics strategies aligned to how their businesses actually operate.
Snowflake, Databricks, dbt, Fivetran fluent
HQ Atlanta, serving US, Canada, Europe
- DI Squared serves six core industries with dedicated delivery experience.
- Utilities is our deepest practice, with grid analytics, customer ops, and regulatory reporting work since 2008.
- Every industry engagement uses the Discover, Map, Navigate, Adjust framework.
- We are vendor-neutral, but fluent in Qlik, Power BI, Snowflake, Databricks, and the rest of the modern stack.
Why industry context changes a data engagement
A churn model in a regulated utility is not the same problem as a churn model in a subscription retailer. The data is shaped by rate cases, service territories, and customer programs the regulator approved three years ago. The same is true in healthcare, where every encounter carries a payer mix, a coding implication, and a compliance perimeter. We build analytics that fit your business: your industry, your culture, your team’s capabilities. That phrase is not a slogan. It is what separates a dashboard that ships and a dashboard that gets used. Industry context tells us which questions matter, which data is trustworthy, which is suspect, and which integrations have to clear a security review before anyone writes SQL. Our consultants merge thoughtful architecture with long-term strategy because the platform choices a CFO signs off on today have to keep paying back through the next regulatory cycle, the next acquisition, or the next rate filing.
- 200+ companies guided since 2008
- Six core industries served
- Headquartered in Atlanta, GA; service across US, Canada, UK
- Three-time Qlik Solution Partner of the Year (2013, 2017, 2019)
The industries we serve
Each industry below has its own dedicated page with use cases, regulatory considerations, and the technology stacks we tend to recommend in that sector. The cards are entry points, not the full story.
Utilities.
Grid analytics, AMI and meter-to-cash, outage and reliability reporting, regulatory filings, customer programs. Our deepest delivery muscle.
Healthcare and life sciences.
Encounter analytics, payer mix and reimbursement modeling, quality reporting, clinical data integration, HIPAA-aligned architecture.
Manufacturing.
OEE and plant-floor analytics, supplier and quality data, S&OP forecasting, IoT and sensor integration, cost-to-serve modeling.
Retail and distribution.
Demand forecasting, assortment and pricing analytics, customer segmentation, channel margin, inventory turns.
Financial services.
Risk and exposure reporting, customer 360, compliance and audit data, profitability by product and segment.
Energy.
Upstream and midstream operational data, production allocation, ESG and emissions reporting, market and trading analytics.
What is consistent across every engagement
The technology choices vary. The methodology does not. Every industry engagement, from a community hospital’s first data warehouse to a publicly traded utility’s analytics modernization, runs through the same four stages.
Discover.
We diagnose the current state across people, process, platform, and governance. In utilities that often means MDM and CIS extracts; in retail it usually means POS, e-commerce, and loyalty data; in healthcare it is EHR, claims, and ancillary systems.
Map.
We document objectives, requirements, and current state into something the operations team and the CFO can both read. Industry context is where this stage earns its keep.
Navigate.
We identify the most valuable first steps and partner through implementation, change management, and ongoing monitoring. Industry SMEs from your side are part of the working group.
Adjust.
As regulators, executives, and budgets move, we help capabilities keep paying back. Industry rhythms (rate cases, fiscal calendars, quality reporting windows) shape this work directly.
The platforms we apply, in context
We are vendor-neutral, but fluent in the platforms that matter. The right stack for a 200-bed hospital is rarely the right stack for a multi-state utility, and we will say so. Across industries our consultants regularly work with Qlik (where we hold Elite Solution Provider status and have been Qlik Solution Partner of the Year three times), Power BI, Tableau, and Looker for analytics; Snowflake and Databricks for data platforms; Microsoft Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud for infrastructure; dbt and Fivetran for engineering and pipeline; and Collibra for governance. Industry pages below note where we tend to land for that sector, and why.
Who DI Squared serves inside these industries
Most of our industry engagements involve a CIO or CDO sponsor, a CFO who needs to see ROI tied to a real plan, and an operations leader who has been waiting for analytics to keep up with the business. We are most useful when the conversation has moved past “we should do something with data” and into “we need to choose a path and stop stalling.” Our consultants have shipped on both the business and the technology side, which means we can sit in either room and be useful.
Industries, answered.
Q: What industries does DI Squared serve?
A: We serve utilities, healthcare and life sciences, manufacturing, retail and distribution, financial services, and energy. Utilities is our deepest practice, with delivery experience going back to our founding in 2008.
Q: Do I need an industry-specialist consultancy, or will a generalist work?
A: For early discovery and platform decisions, a strong generalist can be fine. For implementation, regulated industries (utilities, healthcare, financial services) tend to benefit from a partner that already understands the data models, the compliance perimeter, and the operational rhythms. The risk of a generalist is not skill, it is the time spent learning your industry on the meter.
Q: How does DI Squared keep up with industry-specific regulation?
A: Our consultants stay current through direct work with clients in each sector and through our partner network. We do not provide legal or regulatory advice, but we design data strategy and analytics that respect the constraints (HIPAA, NERC CIP, PCI, SOX, state PUC reporting, and others) your team is already governed by. We work alongside your compliance counsel and your auditors, not around them.
Q: Which industry are you strongest in?
A: Utilities. We have delivered data strategy, and analytics work in utilities continuously since 2008, including AMI rollouts, regulatory reporting modernizations, and customer operations analytics. Healthcare and manufacturing are close behind. We will be candid in early conversations about where our depth is greatest in your sector.
Build a Data Strategy Designed for Your Industry
Speak with a DI Squared strategist who understands the operational, regulatory, and data challenges unique to your industry. We’ll help you identify the right next steps — from integration and architecture to analytics and AI readiness — while aligning with the systems, processes, and teams already in place.