Microsoft data platform, Fabric and Power BI Services · Cork, Ireland
From fragmented reporting everywhere to data you can trust
We help organisations move past disconnected spreadsheets, siloed databases and inconsistent processes — architecting and building Power BI, Fabric, Azure and SQL Server solutions that hold up long after launch day.
25+ years, hands-on
Still building with all of it
Technology keeps moving. We keep adopting, adapting and staying current with both the mature and the new, so we can always bring the right solution to your problem. Scroll through the stack.
2000 – Present
SQL Server
Implementing data warehouses for employers and clients since 2000 — there's rarely a day we don't use SQL.
2005 – Present
Analysis Services
Building BI solutions for users, and still a core part of our weekly work with clients.
2000 – Present
Reporting Services
Building reports for clients — still a core part of our skill set.
2005 – Present
Integration Services
One of our go-tos for working with on-premise databases.
2015 – Present
Power BI
An ever-growing presence in every company — now our daily go-to technology for most data problems.
2023 – Present
Fabric
For when you need more than just a report and need a full end-to-end data engineering solution. The starting point for any new project now.
2015 – Present
Azure
Databases · Data Factory · Logic Apps · Storage
When you need to extend, integrate, orchestrate and get the solution built.
2024 – Present
AI
Governance first, then integration — bringing AI into the data model safely, and into the wider business in ways that actually hold up.
What we do
Strategy first, delivery that lasts
Data strategy & architecture
We work as a trusted advisor to shape an approach before a line of code is written — design authority on the decisions that are expensive to get wrong.
Solution delivery
Hands-on build across SQL Server, Power BI, Fabric, Azure and the wider Power Platform — independently, or embedded in your team.
Power BI training
Small-group courses built from real-world scenarios, not theory — for teams who want the confidence to work things out themselves.
Why DataSmart
Experience that's been tested in production
25+ years
On the Microsoft data stack, as both employee and consultant
Mark Hayes
Leads every engagement personally, backed by our consultants
Agile by design
A small team, deliberately — so you get senior hands, not a bench of juniors
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If you're working on anything in the Microsoft data space, we're happy to have a straight conversation about it.
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