BES Partners with Balor Analytics to Expand New Generation of Operational Data Services
Bent Ear Solutions (BES), a leader in supporting organizations in getting more from the technology they already own, is proud to announce a partnership with Balor Analytics. Together, the two companies will deliver a new generation of data services that help emergency management, public safety, utility, and critical infrastructure organizations access, integrate, and operationalize the information they need to make sound decisions during fast-moving incidents.
The operating picture has never held more data. Grid health, communications outages, weather, sensor feeds, and the early signals of an emerging incident are all available in near real time. The hard part is everything between the data and the decision: acquiring it, confirming it is accurate, putting it in a usable format, and delivering it into the systems an EOC or a utility control room actually runs on. That work is where most organizations get stuck.
“Our clients don’t have a data problem because the data doesn’t exist. They have a data problem because getting the data they need to make a decision validated, visualized, and integrated into their common operating picture is slow, manual, and expensive,” said Director of Data Services Emily Nuñez Hunt. “Balor Analytics gives us access to sources and a delivery pipeline that closes that gap. Together we can hand a client clean, decision-ready geo-enabled data instead of one more feed they have to wrangle.”
The partnership pairs BES’s work building operational capability on the tools clients already own with Balor Analytics’ data sourcing and validation pipeline. Balor brings exclusive access to sources most organizations cannot reach on their own, along with the checking and formatting that turn raw feeds into something a decision-maker can trust. BES brings the practitioner experience to connect that data to ArcGIS, Microsoft 365, and the incident management systems clients already use. The result is a single, reliable source for the operational data that modern platforms depend on, delivered without a new stack to buy or maintain.
“Public safety leaders shouldn’t have to become data engineers to get a clear picture of what’s happening. Our job is to do that work upstream, so the picture is already clean and actionable by the time it reaches them. Partnering with BES puts that data directly in the hands of the people making the call in the format that works best for them.”
— Chris Vaughan, Balor Analytics
When an incident is moving faster than the people responding to it, the difference between a good decision and a late one often comes down to whether the right data arrived in time. This partnership exists to ensure it serves the emergency managers, public safety agencies, utilities, and critical infrastructure operators that BES and Balor Analytics serve nationwide.
