Latticework Advanced: Advanced Data Engineering skills for brands needing custom ETL Pipelines, custom Data Models & custom Software Architectures

Any successful brand will eventually need to reckon with Serious System Integration questions. Even for brands who have begun to mature and have already built out the “Basic” pieces of a Modern Data Stack - like a Fivetran ETL pipeline, a Snowflake data warehouse, and some Tableau dashboards - it can be a constant struggle to adapt to the ever changing landscape of SaaS data systems.

SaaS Proliferation - New SaaS platforms that manage Ad Spend, ECommerce, CRM, Supply Chain, and Data Lakes force companies to configure & shoehorn new Data Products into existing Data Stacks.

Use Case Proliferation - New techniques, KPI’s, and best-practices force companies expand their skill sets to reckon with things like Incrementally, Media Mix Modeling, A/B Testing, and Data Clean Rooms, and attribute Offline & Online Marketing to Digital & Brick-and-Mortar Sales.

Technology Proliferation - As more tech platforms, more custom code, and more ad-hoc data lakes multiply throughout an organization, companies need to manage this knowledge and govern the continued pressures to expand.

Mature, sophisticated brands are already reckoning with an explosion of new SaaS apps coming into their organization every single day. There are literally tens of thousands of MarTech & AdTech SaaS applications, and every year the list gets a little bit longer and looks more and more like this…

The current “best practice” for solving this SaaS sprawl, is setting up a Modern Data Stack, which can itself take on a sprawl of its own. Once simple stacks like Fivetran, Snowflake & Tableau, often get bloated with 3rd party plug-ins and custom-built code that require maintenance & governance of their own. These ever-more-complicated software systems are built out over many years, by many teams, for many purpose, eventually force companies to reckon with System Architectures that look like this…

We’ve seen this situation a million times.  Even though these brands have generally built mature, sophisticated foundations for their analytics, they are faced with an unrelenting high-wire balancing act to keep it all functioning for their organization.  Very few of these brands have armies of Data Scientists, Software Architects, and Analytics Engineers on staff.  And even if they do, they face a constant tug-of-war between staffing resources their “core product” versus staffing ad-hoc Analytics projects.

** This is exactly why we created Latticework Advanced!

Latticework Advanced is a brand new service that bundles together many of Latticework’s other services - Latticework Basic, Latticework Custom ETL, Latticework Analyst - and adds a layer of firepower generally reserved for traditional custom software development. Things like agile software development expertise, database schema development, and system architecture.

At Latticework, we’ve spent the last 6 years coaching over 60 brands how to get value out of their data.  Things like extracting data out of esoteric data platforms and API’s.  Like taming temperamental ETL pipelines and data warehouses.  Like mining for insights that are buried inside gigantic data warehouses.  And because we’ve incorporated 6 years of best practices into standard templates & methodologies.

Since nowadays the average company has their mission critical data stored in between 10-30 platforms, its become crystal clear that all companies need to “build a Latticework to get to the Insight”.  But the type of Latticework they need, depends on their phase of growth.  This is why we’ve developed specific packages - from Lite, to Basic, to Advanced to Agency -  custom-tailored to your growth stage. And ushers you up the ranks until you’re ready to be delivering data-driven Insights on a daily basis.

With Latticework Advanced, we’ll upgrade or fine-tune your data stack with tools like Fivetran, Snowflake, and Tableau.  We’ll build custom ETL pipelines to one of your esoteric API’s or SaaS platforms.  And we’ll task one of our advanced Analyst’s to mine through your data to identify groundbreaking insights.

So if you’d like to try Latticework Advanced, click the link below to book a free consultation.

And we’ll have you and your brand up and running fast.