SGM builds Big Data systems for organizations with a compelling need for high quality data. We help companies become data-driven organizations that innovate through data. We practice the soft science of asking questions of data in a way that yields a nuanced picture of how things really stand, not an oversimplification that obscures the challenges which lie ahead. Our clients include mature data consumers trying to keep up with terabytes of data coming in from millions of users every day to start-up product teams piloting brand new services. SERVICES Analytics - Business Intelligence and Data-Driven Product Development through flighting and A/B testing. Privacy - Minimizing risk through process and design. End-to-end Data Pipeline - Instrumentation, Transmission, Extraction, Transformation, Loading and Aggregation (Map Reduce) Ops and Program Management - Documentation. Hiring and managing engineering resources. Datastore hosting. Technologies and Concepts we work with daily include: SQL/RDBMS (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server), NoSQL (Mongo, SimpleDB), Map Reduce (Hadoop, MS Cosmos, Mongo), OLAP (SSAS, Mondrian), Cloud Hosting (EC2, RDS, SQS, S3)