The Datamartist tool was created by nModal Solutions Inc., a Canadian company, founded by James Standen.

James is a passionate data guru who has consistently delivered real results with both ad-hoc and snapshot based data analysis and full fledged data warehouse and data mart projects.

What he found was that in the early stages of a project, or when one-time analysis needed to be done, the expensive and super-powerful enterprise tools were clumsy and too bloated for simple, get-your-hands-on-the-data tasks.

Often he realized that a full blown business intelligence project just wasn't necessary, but he was frustrated by what it cost for his department to provide data analysis, and realized that the tools and methodologies for data marts did not always provide the best solution.

He found that he and his teams were often building a mish-mash of excel spreadsheets with VBA code, SQL extractors from source data bases, and then using a database to try to glue it together when Excel couldn't handle the volume. He had more requests for data than he could satisfy on a constantly shrinking budget.

What he really wanted was a tool that would act as a data scratchpad, and give him some of the functionality of a big ETL tool, yet behave more like a spreadsheet when it came to data typing and for just trying things out. He knew that with a tool like this not only would his developers be able to deliver data analysis more effectively but some of the analysts could probably use the tool directly, getting results for themselves and their colleagues- It would be self serve data transformation.

He looked around for such a tool, and was surprised that it did not exist.

He founded nModal, and set out to build that tool. The result is Datamartist.

nModal Solutions Inc.
648 Windermere Ave.
Toronto Ontario
M6S 3L8

info@nmodal.com
1 (888) 840-1538

Software donation policy

One of the fantastic things about software is its very very easy to give away. If you are doing good, contact us. We have a policy of donating software to non-profit groups to let them analyse their data and would love to help your organization.

Proofs of concepts and consulting services

We are happy to discuss proofs of concepts at no cost to potential datamartist customers. Depending on the scope and time required, we can often provide some assistance, or put together a proposal for consulting services to help you solve your data analysis problem.