Business intelligence in Canada
Canada's economy is regional. Financial services and professional firms cluster in Toronto, manufacturing in Ontario and Quebec, energy and its service companies in Calgary, real estate and trade in Vancouver, and healthcare, education and not-for-profits everywhere. Business runs Monday to Friday in Canadian dollars, with federal and provincial sales taxes reported separately and a francophone market in Quebec where dashboards, labels and reports are expected in French. Public-sector, health and financial organisations, and increasingly their suppliers, expect data to be held in Canada.
Canadian teams ask us for a national view with provincial and branch drill-down, and for permissions so each branch, dealership or clinic sees its own numbers. They ask for reports timed to each region's morning, from Halifax to Vancouver, in dollars. Quebec teams ask whether dashboards can be in French: metric names, labels, dashboard titles and reports can all be written in French, while the product interface itself is available in English and Arabic. And almost everyone asks about residency, which Klayara answers by running in the Canadian cloud region you choose or on your own servers — see self-hosting and security & permissions.
Sectors we work with most: financial services, manufacturing, real estate, healthcare and not-for-profits. For board reporting, see automating board reports.