Affordable data warehouses, reporting tools, and analytics platforms for businesses that need real answers — without the six-figure price tag.
Every product solves a different part of the same problem: your data is everywhere, your answers are nowhere, and the tools that could help cost more than the problem itself.
A metadata-driven reporting layer that sits on your warehouse and lets users drill from totals to transactions without writing SQL or waiting on an analyst.
Connects to the systems you already use — POS, payroll, accounting, payments — and brings everything into one secure data warehouse with dashboards that actually answer your questions.
Design your data warehouse on a drag-and-drop canvas. MetaForge generates production-ready Dataform SQLX that runs on your warehouse and lives in your Git repo.
Most BI tools start from "design a chart." DDR starts from "answer a question and let the user keep asking follow-ups." Click any number to drill down. Click again to go deeper. Revenue to months to customers to invoices — no new report to build, no analyst ticket to file.
DDR pushes computation to your warehouse and only pulls what you're looking at. Reports are fast, shareable by URL, and sit on your existing data governance — no proprietary modeling layer to maintain.
The unsung superpower: data validation. DDR compares reports row-by-row and cell-by-cell with fuzzy column matching and configurable tolerance. Point it at the old report and the new one and it tells you exactly where they disagree. Essential for migrations, greenfield builds, and ongoing warehouse trust.
You run your business on five or six different systems. Each one knows part of the story. None of them knows the whole story. You can't answer "what did we actually make last month?" without opening four apps and a spreadsheet.
The Business Portal connects to the systems you already use, pulls your data on a schedule, and brings it together in one secure data warehouse — so you can see your business as a whole, not as fragments.
Building this yourself means hiring backend developers, database architects, and frontend engineers. You're looking at $150K–$500K and six to twelve months before the first dashboard. The Business Portal gives you that infrastructure at a fraction of the cost and timeline.
Enterprise ETL tools price themselves out of the mid-market on purpose. MetaForge is built for the companies those tools ignore — the ones with real data problems and real budgets, just not Fortune 500 budgets.
The interface is a canvas. Drag source tables, define targets (staging, dimension, fact, data store), set load types, map columns, and write transforms. The generated code updates live as you work — always one click from running against your real warehouse.
For migration projects: MetaForge connects directly to a Wherescape RED repository, reads the existing metadata, and rebuilds the entire warehouse on the canvas. AI-assisted translation handles the code conversion, with every translation flagged for human review.
I used to spend the first three days of every month reconciling data across systems to figure out commissions. Now it's just there.
For the first time I can see revenue per provider hour next to their labor cost. Two of my highest-revenue providers were actually my lowest-margin. I never would have known.
I had $47,000 in Stripe deposits I didn't know were pending. It was just sitting in a queue I never looked at because I didn't have a reason to check Stripe separately from everything else.
Datahound Analytics is the work of one person who's spent 24 years solving the same problem from every angle.
Kurt started at Oracle Corporation in 1997, consulting on data warehouses for state agencies and healthcare systems. He went on to spend 14 years at QAD as Principal BI Architect, where he designed and delivered 11 packaged data warehouse modules serving Fortune 500 manufacturers across North America, EMEA, and APAC.
Along the way, he built metadata-driven integrations that cut BI development cycles from weeks to hours, created release automation that reduced testing from 6 hours to 20 minutes, and trained over 100 global team members on dimensional modeling and warehouse best practices.
The tools that became Datahound Analytics — DDR, MetaForge, and the Business Portal — grew out of patterns Kurt saw repeated across every engagement: businesses with real data, real questions, and no affordable way to connect the two.
Specializing in QAD data warehouse migrations and Wherescape RED environments where existing metadata can be leveraged to accelerate the build.
Deep experience with EMR/POS platforms in the medspa industry — data migrations, analytics, and integrations that the big-name systems don't provide.
Kimball methodology, star and snowflake schemas, SCD handling, and metadata-driven frameworks across every major database platform.
QlikView, Power BI, Looker Studio, SSRS/SSAS, Cognos, Tableau — selecting and implementing the right tool for the right problem.
Whether you need a reporting tool, a warehouse migration, or just want to stop being the human integration layer between your business systems — let's talk.
kurt@datahoundanalytics.com