Quasar

What Quasar does

Quasar Business Solutions Inc. is a privately held boutique consulting firm founded in 1998 and headquartered in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The firm delivers professional-services engagements in business intelligence, advanced analytics, machine learning, data services, and automation to enterprise and mid-market clients. Its service portfolio spans BI (visual intelligence, dashboard design, vendor migrations), Advanced Analytics + ML (predictive analytics, model development, deployment and integration), Data Services (acquisition, transformation, integration, cleansing, and cloud data services), Automation (robotic process automation, digital workflows, data orchestration, and data pipelines), Market Intelligence, Business Marketing, and Content Marketing. Engagements are delivered on-site by experienced hands-on practitioners and structured as advisory, special project, or virtual team member arrangements, with custom training and workshops to drive client adoption of self-service BI and analytics.

The firm's core technical differentiation is anchored in a Core Technology/Integration partnership with TimeXtender, a high-performance data management platform that Quasar implements and resells; TimeXtender is claimed to accelerate time to data insights by up to 10x and supports core analytics, modern data warehouse, IoT, and AI workloads across Microsoft on-premise and Azure ecosystems. Quasar's customer logo set — Nike, Gap, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, Pfizer, Microsoft, IBM, Cisco, Boeing, Exxon Mobil, Stanford University, US Department of Energy, and many others — spans apparel, financial services, healthcare, government, education, energy, technology, manufacturing, and transportation. The scale of the logo list relative to the 1-10 employee count (firmographics) implies a substantial portion of work is delivered as historical engagements, subcontractor participation in larger vendor-led deployments, or project-based advisory rather than concurrent retainer revenue.

Quasar monetizes purely through professional services on a quote-based pricing model that is not publicly disclosed. Pricing varies by project scope and engagement type. The go-to-market motion is enterprise field sales, supported by content marketing on Medium, organic social on LinkedIn and Twitter, and direct website inquiry. No funding rounds, acquisitions, subsidiaries, parent companies, patents, regulatory actions, leadership changes, or product launches are disclosed in the source material, consistent with a stable boutique consulting operation of long standing rather than a venture-backed or rapidly scaling business.

Name

Quasar

Legal name

Quasar Business Solutions Inc.

Website

https://quasarinc.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1998

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Quasar Business Solutions Inc. is a privately held Canadian boutique consulting firm founded in 1998 that delivers BI, advanced analytics, machine learning, data, and automation professional services to enterprise and mid-market clients, anchored by a core partnership with TimeXtender.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Business Intelligence and Analytics Consulting

NAICS

Other Management Consulting Services (541618), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151)

SIC

Services-Management Consulting Services (8742), Services-Computer Processing & Data Preparation (7374)

akta.pro primary industry

Industry/Domain Analytics Solutions & Accelerators (BPAEAHAK)

akta.pro secondary industry

Model Development & Training Platforms (AutoML, Notebooks, Feature Stores) (HDAEANAB)

Keywords

• Business intelligence consulting
• Data analytics services
• Machine learning consulting
• Data management platform
• Predictive analytics services

Headquarters

HQ city

North Vancouver

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Consulting Services: Professional consulting engagements including advisory services, special projects, and becoming a virtual member of client teams. On-site consulting and training delivered by expert practitioners.
2. Training Services: Custom workshops, online training, course development, and on-premise training with hands-on labs and in-person guidance to help teams adopt self-service BI and analytics.
3. Market Intelligence Services: Product experience testing, competitor evaluation, gap analysis, event/survey data acquisition, and evaluation of data curation providers' tools and methods.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Quasar Business Solutions Inc. is a boutique consulting firm that delivers Business Intelligence, Advanced Analytics & Machine Learning, Data Services, and Automation consulting engagements to enterprise clients. The firm also offers Market Intelligence, Business Marketing, Content Marketing, and custom training services, and partners with TimeXtender to implement high-performance data management platforms that accelerate time to data insights.

Product overview

Quasar Business Solutions Inc is a boutique consulting firm founded in 1998 that provides Business Intelligence, analytics, and machine learning consulting services. Their primary product offering is TimeXtender, a data management platform they partner with and resell. The company offers complementary service areas including Business Intelligence (Visual Intelligence, Report + Dashboard Design, Vendor Migrations), Advanced Analytics + ML (Predictive Analytics, Model Development/Deployment), Data Services (Data acquisition, transformation, integration, cleansing, Cloud Data Services), Automation (Robotic process automation, Digital workflows, Data orchestration), Market Intelligence, Business Marketing, and Content Marketing services.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• BI, Analytics, and Machine Learning Consulting Services Boutique consulting engagements covering Business Intelligence (Visual Intelligence, Data Analytics, Report + Dashboard Design, Vendor Migrations and Conversions), Advanced Analytics + ML (Predictive analytics, Model Development, Deployment, Integration and Optimization), Data Services (Data acquisition, Transformation, Integration, modeling, Cleansing, preparation, Cloud Data Services), and Automation (Robotic process automation, Digital workflows, Data orchestration, Data pipelines). Delivered as advisory services, special projects, or virtual team member arrangements to enterprise and mid-market clients.
• Custom BI and Analytics Training Services Custom Workshops, Online training, Course development, and on-premise training with hands-on labs and in-person guidance delivered by experienced practitioners to help client teams adopt self-service business intelligence and analytics.
• Market Intelligence Services Product experience testing, Product/Competitor evaluation and gap analysis, integration of Market Intelligence with BI, Event/Survey data acquisition and integration, and Evaluation of data curation providers' tools and methods. Helps product and marketing teams build better products, increase conversion rates, and deliver value throughout the customer journey.
• Business Marketing and Content Marketing Services Business Marketing services (Marketing plans and programs, Strategy, training, channel, Product demo and content development, Sales enablement tool development, Content, campaigns and social messaging) and Content Marketing services (Case Studies, Infographics, eBooks & WhitePapers, Quarterly Integrated Content (QIC) campaigns, Content development).

Quantifiable outcome

• TimeXtender accelerates time to data insights by up to 10 times

Named customers18 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

AI capability3 records

Feature5 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• TimeXtendercoreTechnology or IntegrationTimeXtender is a high-performance data management platform anchored on automation that enables digital transformation. Quasar supports and implements TimeXtender solutions, which accelerate time to data insights by up to 10 times. The platform connects to various data silos, catalogs, models, and supports core analytics, modern data warehouse, IoT, and AI implementations.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves3 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Slalom: Slalom is a US-based consulting firm with deep practices in data, analytics, and BI transformation across enterprise clients. Directly comparable business model (boutique-tier consulting, hands-on practitioners, vendor-agnostic BI implementations) and similar customer-segment focus on enterprise organizations.
• West Monroe Partners: West Monroe is a US consulting firm with established analytics, data, and technology practices serving mid-market and enterprise clients. Closely comparable boutique-enterprise consulting model with similar horizontal approach across industries.
• Adastra: Adastra is a boutique data and analytics consultancy operating in North America and Europe, providing BI, data warehousing, and analytics consulting. Closely comparable horizontal boutique with similar practitioner-led delivery and vendor implementation focus.
• Fractal Analytics: Fractal is an AI and analytics services firm serving Fortune 500 enterprises across multiple verticals with model development and decision intelligence offerings. Comparable horizontal analytics consulting model and enterprise client mix, scaled larger.
• Tiger Analytics: Tiger Analytics is a global analytics and AI consulting firm delivering data science, ML, and BI services to enterprise clients across verticals. Directly comparable analytics-consulting business model serving similar enterprise use cases (predictive modeling, BI, cloud data).

Broad incumbents

• Insight Enterprises: Insight is a global IT solutions and services provider with a strong data and analytics practice delivering BI consulting, cloud data services, and managed analytics. Comparable analytics services, but a much larger broad-line IT solutions distributor and integrator.
• Capgemini: Capgemini is a global consulting and IT services leader with extensive data, analytics, and AI practices serving large enterprises across all of Quasar's verticals. Overlaps broadly on enterprise analytics consulting but at significantly greater scale.
• Accenture: Accenture is the world's largest consulting firm with global data and analytics practices serving the same Fortune 500 client types (Nike, Microsoft, Boeing, Pfizer, etc.). Competes for the same enterprise analytics RFPs at materially greater scale and breadth.
• Deloitte Consulting: Deloitte operates a large analytics and information management practice serving enterprise and government clients (including US Department of Energy, where Quasar also works). Broad incumbent competing for the same federal and enterprise analytics mandates.

Others

• TimeXtender: TimeXtender is the data management platform vendor with which Quasar holds a core partnership. Not a competitor but an enabling/ecosystem participant whose go-to-market success directly drives Quasar's implementation and resell revenue.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/quasarinc
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/quasarinc

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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