What leaders see
Work keeps moving, but only because people fill the gaps.
Teams rely on manual checks, side files, rekeying, status meetings, and individual knowledge to keep the process alive.
Data Analytics · Data Warehouse
One warehouse for all your data, not one spreadsheet per department. Your operational data is scattered across ERP, WMS, CRM, MES, spreadsheets, and shared drives. Every report requires someone to pull data from 3-4 systems and reconcile it manually. We centralize everything into a cloud data warehouse with automated pipelines so your analytics run on a single, consistent source of truth.
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The Problem
The problem is not one broken tool. It is an operating gap between who owns the work, which record can be trusted, and how exceptions move through the business.
What leaders see
Teams rely on manual checks, side files, rekeying, status meetings, and individual knowledge to keep the process alive.
What is actually happening
Records, rules, approvals, and handoffs are split across systems, so each step introduces delay or reconciliation.
What gets worse
The faster the business moves, the more bad data, exception work, and decision ambiguity compound across the operation.
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What Changes
Your operational data is scattered across ERP, WMS, CRM, MES, spreadsheets, and shared drives. Every report requires someone to pull data from 3-4 systems and reconcile it manually. We centralize everything into a cloud data warehouse with automated pipelines so your analytics run on a single, consistent source of truth.
Deploy Snowflake, BigQuery, or Azure Synapse as your central analytics warehouse. Schema designed for complex operating data models -- orders, inventory, production, quality, and financials.
Automated extraction from current and legacy ERP systems via Python pipelines. Transaction data, master data, and configuration data pulled on schedule or in near-real-time.
Warehouse transactions, production completions, quality records, and shop-floor data integrated alongside ERP data. The warehouse sees the full operational picture.
Scheduled and event-driven data pipelines that extract, transform, and load data from source systems. Built-in data quality checks, deduplication, and standardization at every stage.
Validation rules, anomaly detection, and data quality scoring applied during ingestion. Bad data is flagged and quarantined -- not loaded into the warehouse to corrupt downstream reports.
Business-friendly data models that define "revenue," "inventory," "on-time delivery," and other metrics once. Every dashboard and report uses the same definitions -- no more conflicting numbers.
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How It Fits Your Operations
Related Foundations
Follow the dependencies behind this service instead of treating it as an isolated project.
Connect governed data to the operational measures and decisions leaders need to trust.
Explore next stepMove approved records between ERP, cloud applications, portals, reporting, automation, and AI.
Explore next stepApply AI after the data foundation, permissions, workflow, and review boundaries are ready.
Explore next stepAssess readiness, dependencies, risk, architecture, and implementation order before engineering begins.
Explore next stepLaunchpad Before Engineering
Launchpad assesses the business and turns discovery into priorities, risks, readiness, architecture, and an implementation Roadmap. Metrotechs then engineers and supports the approved solution.
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Delivery sequence
Your operational data is scattered across ERP, WMS, CRM, MES, spreadsheets, and shared drives. Every report requires someone to pull data from 3-4 systems and reconcile it.
Catalog every data source, document data volumes, update frequencies, and access methods. Map the data flows that need to converge in the warehouse.
Design the warehouse schema and semantic models based on your analytics requirements. Define dimensions, facts, and business metric calculations with stakeholder sign-off.
Build ETL/ELT pipelines for each source system. Implement data quality checks, transformation logic, and incremental refresh strategies.
Validate warehouse data against source systems. Reconcile counts, totals, and key metrics. Go live when data accuracy meets defined thresholds.
Deploy pipeline monitoring, data freshness alerts, and quality dashboards. Ongoing maintenance as source systems change or new data sources are added.
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FAQ
Straight answers to what operators ask before committing budget to this work.
BigQuery on GCP for most operators in our stack -- integrates cleanly with Python pipelines and ERP data exports. Snowflake is a strong alternative for teams with existing BI investments. We recommend based on your analytics tools and data volume.