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FreedomDev is based in West Michigan and works with clients remotely across the United States.
Alabama manufacturers produced $18.2 billion in goods during 2023, yet only 38 % of the state’s mid-market firms use modern BI dashboards to track scrap, downtime, and on-time delivery.
We start every engagement by mapping your existing data—whether that’s PLC tags on a shop floor, SAP batch records, or QuickBooks invoices—into a unified warehouse. Nightly ETL jobs can flag duplicate or phantom inventory records so plant teams stop carrying stock they don't actually have.
Our US-based, remote-first team builds semantic models that let plant managers ask plain-English questions and get answers quickly without learning DAX.
State incentives like the Alabama Jobs Act require detailed wage and capital-expenditure reporting. We build automated filings directly from your BI portal so this data can be pulled and validated without manual spreadsheet work each quarter.
For clients handling sensitive customer or financial data, we embed row-level security and dynamic data masking so a single dashboard can serve engineers, finance teams, and external auditors without exposing information they shouldn't see.
FreedomDev never ships shelf-ware. We pair a senior engineer with your team remotely for the first sprint, joining video walkthroughs of shift changes to capture the tribal knowledge that never makes it into the CMMS—context that makes scrap-prediction and other plant-floor models meaningfully more accurate.
Cloud egress fees add up quickly for data-heavy Alabama businesses. We architect hybrid lakes—hot data on fast storage, cold data on lower-cost object storage—to reduce monthly cloud spend while keeping query response fast.
Beyond margins, BI drives workforce retention. Surfacing overtime hot-spots to line supervisors gives them the data to intervene before burnout drives good people out the door.
Dashboards age like milk; our managed-services offering includes quarterly model reviews and ongoing Power BI updates. Alerting on streaming sensor data—like bearing-temperature anomalies—can catch equipment problems before they cause unplanned downtime.
Alabama growth capital often comes from regional banks that covenant on metrics like debt-service coverage and inventory turns. Surfacing those KPIs in real time gives finance teams a stronger hand in lender conversations.
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Pre-built CDS views pull production orders, Kanban cards, and quality notifications every 15 minutes into Azure Synapse.
Manufacturers that share dashboards across internal teams, joint-venture partners, and outside auditors need fine-grained control over who sees what. Our dynamic row-level security uses AAD claims plus on-premise HR data to hide sensitive records while keeping commercial metrics visible to everyone who needs them.
Using Python in Azure ML, we build models that predict yield loss from reactor temperature deltas and feedstock moisture, giving process engineers an early warning before a batch goes out of spec.
The Alabama Capital Investment Credit requires monthly head-count, payroll, and capital-expenditure validation. Our Power BI template auto-generates the ADOR Excel workbook and timestamps each submission, reducing the risk of late or inaccurate filings.
Wasabi’s us-south-east-1 region sits 40 ms from Birmingham. We tier PI System archives to hot-object storage while keeping live data in Premium SSD. Query federation via Polybase feels like one logical warehouse without $0.12/GB egress penalties.
FreedomDev definitely set the bar a lot higher. I don't think we would have been able to implement that ERP without them filling these gaps.
Live reorder-point dashboards help distributors cut excess on-hand inventory while protecting fill rates.
Mileage and dwell-time analytics arm logistics managers with the data they need to negotiate better line-haul rates with regional brokers.
Automated audit trails and change logs reduce the manual digging auditors need to do, shortening the time and cost of certification cycles like IATF-16949.
Overtime heat-maps and skills-gap visuals give plant leaders the data to intervene before burnout drives voluntary turnover.
Real-time payroll and capex tracking helps ensure you don't miss out on Alabama Jobs Act credits tied to qualifying new hires.
Hybrid hot/cold architecture can meaningfully reduce cloud spend while keeping query speed fast.
We meet with your team remotely at no cost, whiteboard your data sources, and spin up a live Power BI prototype using sample files. You leave with a fixed-scope proposal and sprint plan.
Using Azure Data Factory or SQL Server, we build ETL pipelines that merge PLC tags, ERP tables, and CSV dumps into a star-schema warehouse. Indexing and partitioning strategies ensure sub-second query times even for 400 M-row fact tables.
We craft tabular models in Analysis Services with measures that obey Alabama incentive rules and plant-specific KPIs. Row-level security uses AAD groups plus on-prem HR data so dashboards can be shared safely with external auditors.
Every report is optimized for 8-inch rugged tablets common on Alabama shop floors. We use 16-color palettes that remain legible under sodium-vapor lighting and support offline caching for mills with spotty Wi-Fi.
We run half-day power-user workshops in Birmingham, Huntsville, or Mobile, record GIF-based quick-starts, and embed a “Send Feedback” button that creates Jira tickets directly from within Power BI.
Post go-live, we monitor refresh times, compress partitions, and update DAX as your business rules evolve. Quarterly business reviews measure ROI against baseline KPIs locked in during week 1.
Alabama’s industrial mix—automotive, steel, chemicals, aerospace—generates high-velocity, high-complexity data.
State incentives like the Alabama Jobs Act and Capital Investment Credit demand granular reporting. We embed those KPIs—head-count by county, payroll thresholds, qualified capital expenditures—into executive dashboards so decisions are made with real incentive impact visible.
Companies handling sensitive customer or payment data need dashboards that protect it. Our BI semantic models can tag and dynamically mask sensitive fields so auditors and outside reviewers can interact with dashboards without ever seeing raw sensitive values.
From the Shoals to the coast, Alabama factories run legacy PLCs, SAP, and QuickBooks. FreedomDev’s on-shore engineers speak every protocol—from Modbus to RFC—so we can stand up a live factory KPI portal in four weeks without ripping out any controls.
Alabama power costs average 7.9 ¢/kWh, but peak-demand surcharges can triple that. We integrate IoT data from plant meters into Power BI, giving manufacturers the visibility to shift non-critical loads off peak-demand windows.
Regional banks such as ServisFirst and Regions covenant on metrics like DSCR and inventory turns. Our BI solutions surface those ratios daily, giving Huntsville machine shops the confidence to negotiate 25- to 35-basis-point reductions on revolver rates.
FreedomDev is based in West Michigan and works with clients remotely across the United States.
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FreedomDev is based in West Michigan and supports clients through remote collaboration, structured discovery, and practical go-live planning. We deliver every engagement remotely—no travel charges for kickoff or emergency support, ever.
We write ETL, model cubes, design dashboards, and support hybrid cloud. One throat to choke, one invoice to pay, and a single team accountable for critical-ticket response.
Our BI semantic models can tag and mask sensitive fields at the row and column level, so a single dashboard can be shared safely with different audiences without exposing data they shouldn't see.
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Tell us what is happening, what systems are involved, and what you are trying to improve in Alabama. We'll help determine a practical next step.