MetricLabs
Data Intelligence,
Built for South Africa
Our Story
We believe every South African business deserves enterprise-grade data intelligence — not just the ones that can afford a full data team.
MetricLabs was founded by a senior Azure data platform engineer with nearly a decade of experience building enterprise data systems for companies across Europe and South Africa. After years of watching mid-market SA businesses make decisions from spreadsheets and gut feel — while global competitors leveraged real-time analytics — we knew there had to be a better way.
Our model is simple: we take your existing business systems — Business Central, Pastel, Sage, SQL — and connect them into a fully managed Azure data warehouse. Then we layer in AI-powered intelligence: daily executive briefings, anomaly alerts, and predictive signals delivered directly to Microsoft Teams. No internal data team required. No upfront infrastructure investment. Just insight, on demand.
- Azure-Native Architecture
- POPIA Compliant
- Data Vault 2.0
Our Process
From day one
to data-driven in 6 weeks.
Discovery & ERP Audit
We start by understanding your business, your data sources, and your executive reporting needs. We audit your ERP landscape (Business Central, Pastel, Sage, or SQL), map your key data flows, and define the data model that will power your intelligence layer.
Build, Model & Deploy
Using pre-built Azure Data Factory accelerator templates, we deploy your cloud data warehouse in days, not months. We build your Data Vault 2.0 model, configure your ADLS zones, connect your ERP sources, and set up Power BI dashboards — all within a 4-week sprint.
Go-Live, Insights & Managed Service
Your executives get live dashboards and AI-powered daily briefings from Week 5. From that point, MetricLabs manages your entire data platform as an ongoing service — monitoring pipelines, managing schema changes, expanding analytics, and evolving your intelligence layer as your business grows.
Client Feedback
What clients say.
"Before MetricLabs, our monthly management accounts were already 3 weeks old by the time we sat down to review them. Now our CFO gets a Teams message every morning with the numbers that matter. It changed how we run the business."
"We'd been trying to build an internal data team for two years. MetricLabs had us live on Power BI dashboards in 6 weeks, at a fraction of the cost. The ROI was immediate."
