The CRN Fast50 is not the first time Melbourne-headquartered BizData has been in the spotlight this year. The No.4 Fast50 placing follows a Microsoft global award, a high-profile project for Tourism Australia, and recognition as a foundation member of Microsoft’s Internet of Things partner group.
BizData sales and marketing director Nadav Rayman says a huge difference in 2015 has been the speed of deployment for customers. “We’ve made lot of internal investment in IT over the last couple of years to get people to a BI platform a lot quicker. As a result, we have a number of licensed software products and packaged engagements that allow customers to stand up a data warehouse and BI platform a lot faster than they used to.”
In June, BizData won a Microsoft global partner award in the Business Intelligence category, on the basis of its ground-breaking work with Tourism Australia. BizData had implemented a PowerBI digital dashboard to analyse how the tourism agency’s marketing budget is spent. Tourism Australia previously used spreadsheets and text documents to measure how well their high-profile promotional campaigns work. BizData also clinched the Business Intelligence and Data Platform categories at Microsoft’s local partner awards in September last year.
“The philosophy or objective for BizData has been to be a solution-focused business intelligence company, and really build a Microsoft BI powerhouse in Australia,” says Rayman.
Microsoft is the focus, and BizData’s other vendors act largely to support that platform.
“A main-focus vendor we have at the moment is Kepion, which is a Seattle-based company that focuses on budgeting and planning. We have some very large budgeting and planning sites in Australia, one of which is 1,700 seats,” Rayman says. “And one of the newer partners we’re working with is RedPoint, which is a really great marketing campaign platform.”
Last month, BizData was announced as one of just nine founding members of Microsoft’s new Internet of Things partner group. The vendor stated that it would put “heavy investment” into the nine partners through technical and sales training.
“The main, new services we offered in 2015 were IoT and intelligence services and working a lot more with cloud-based platforms,” Rayman says.
“We started getting a lot more traction in landing an entire BI platform in the cloud, and working with more advanced-use cases like real-time data and IoT. A big part of people’s increasing trust of the cloud is having the data centres situated locally.”
FACT FILE
- Founded 2005
- Key executives Mark Matthews, Nadav Rayman, Brian Sharp, Maurice Bernardo, James Bashforth and Ofir Even-Bar
- HQ Melbourme
- Growth 132.7%
- 2015 revenue $7 million
- Headcount 40 (at time of entry)
- Top vendor Microsoft
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