Blue Canopy: Translating Complex Requirements into Achievable Outcomes

Organizations are busy hopping into the Big Data bandwagon by building data models and warehouses, and perform the aspects of analytics, business intelligence, or enterprise search. Often times, these companies don’t consider the business and technical complexities needed to integrate, correlate, plan, govern, manage, or acquire the data and they often don’t consider where they are going to get the data from. Recognizing this problem, Sheryl Schwartz along with Bradley J. Schwartz and Mike Harris, founded Blue Canopy, an end-to-end Big Data consulting and system-development firm.

Headquartered in Reston, VA, Blue Canopy aim to help its customers solve these problems by understanding the business perspective first, followed by the technical requirements of the system. “We look at Big Data from a decision driven analytics stand point,” says Jim McGinn, PMP, Director, National Security Big Data and Analytics practice, Blue Canopy. The company manages complex programs, improves enterprise performance and integrates mission and enterprise systems for the U.S. Federal Government and Commercial clients.

Blue Canopy’s key service offerings revolve around enterprise data management, Big Data, decision analytics, and cloud computing and enterprise information management. “At Blue canopy, we think product agnostic,” says McGinn. The company’s enterprise information management focuses on the analytic aspect, where it analyzes the requirement of the organization, be it type of analytics, enterprise search, predictive modeling, text analytics and social media analytics. “We then provide solutions in a wide range of platforms accordingly. In the information management aspect, we look up to data enrichment and data fusion service to make sure the analytics is performed correctly and no fraud happens,” adds McGinn.

Blue Canopy has developed and deployed 4pi process improvement solution framework to assist organizations in assessing and peasuring key business process. The 4pi Solution Suite comprises process management framework, activity models, metrics and executive dashboards, as well as workflow automation tools to provide organizations with an effective, efficient and productive way to manage business processes and IT service delivery.