Helping Businesses around the World to Use Technology and Become More Competitive: Pythian

Founded in 1997, Pythian is a global IT product and services company that helps businesses adopts disruptive technologies to advance innovation and increase agility. Its consulting, implementation and managed services solutions help businesses realize the value from their data assets, accelerate software delivery, and enjoy more reliable, scalable IT systems.

Pythian’s elite global teams of technology-enabled experts have access to close to 20 years of searchable documented work, allowing them to efficiently solve problems and implement solutions faster, with better results.

Having 400 Pythian experts in 35 countries, the company currently manages 11,800 systems. The company’s clients are businesses whose IT systems drive their revenue and include SaaS, media, gaming, financial services, and e-commerce companies across the globe.

Pythian Technologies

Oracle Services

Pythian’s Oracle DBA services help you manage, maintain, and optimize your critical Oracle systems. From Oracle Database to Oracle applications and everything in between, it delivers 24/7, year-round support with flexible monthly contracts that don’t lock you in. The world’s top Oracle DBAs—including Oracle Certified Masters, Professionals, Experts, and Oracle ACEs and ACE Directors—at your service.


Hadoop Consulting and Managed Services

Pythian’s Hadoop consultants work closely with your business and IT teams to assess your requirements, create a detailed Hadoop architecture, and take it from proof of concept, to pilot, to production. Pythian also offers round-the-clock system monitoring and operational services with specialists who work on big data projects daily, so you can be confident your data is safe and your systems are running smoothly.

Cassandra Consulting Services

Whether you’re considering an open source or commercial Cassandra deployment, currently implementing it, or already have it in production, Pythian’s certified Apache Cassandra and DataStax Enterprise experts can work with your team to ensure the success of your project at every phase.

Microsoft SQL Server Services

Pythian’s DBAs have years of technical expertise, and experience in all aspects of Microsoft SQL Server. Along with core database administration, Pythian’s Microsoft SQL teams have extensive knowledge in virtualization, disaster recovery, and high availability solutions.

MySQL Services

Pythian offers end-to-end, expert MySQL services—from planning and implementation to ongoing operational support. Pythian’s MySQL team brings deep technical and industry expertise in MySQL, as well as MongoDB and MariaDB, database administration to address all of your development and operational challenges.

Cloud Services

For Amazon Web Services: Pythian’s Amazon Web Services team holds multiple AWS certifications with experience spanning the entire AWS ecosystem. It can help you develop and refine your strategy, adopt technologies, execute your roadmap, and optimize service quality on an ongoing basis.

For Microsoft Azure: Pythian’s solutions for Microsoft Azure can help at all stages of your application lifecycle. Its highly skilled experts can get you to develop a strategy, and help you through every stage of your cloud adoption and help you optimize and maintain a successful cloud implementation.

For Google Cloud Platform: It’s certified GCP Qualified Developers can help you optimize Google Cloud Technology quickly and with confidence. Pythian can help you develop your cloud strategy, and select the best solution based on your legacy system, in-house expertise, and specific project goals with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

Case Study

Pythian Creates AI Opportunity Roadmap to Help ECB Effectively Analyze Cricket Footage on Google Cloud Platform

The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) is the single national governing body for all cricket in England and Wales, headquartered at Lord’s Cricket Ground in London. ECB was looking at leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI) to analyze recorded footage from cricket matches.

Business Need: ECB wanted to be able to analyze more cricket matches than their manual process allowed and be more consistent in the analysis. They turned to Pythian to evaluate opportunities, to assess available data and to establish an AI roadmap to automate video labeling and expand cricket recording footage analysis beyond the capabilities of the human eye.

Solution: ECB enlisted Pythian who had recently helped ECB with a cloud-based data platform that enabled ECB to unlock the value of their data by integrating disparate data sets for greater insights.

Pythian and ECB then turned to Google Cloud Platform because of its Machine Learning (ML) capabilities and cloud elastic compute and storage capacity that enables the assessment of large samples of sports game video footage, including televised footage, analyst-recorded footage, and specialized Hawk-eye captures for multi-dimensional ball trajectory analysis.

Pythian analyzed samples of recorded matches and associated historically labeled events and its attributes, such as the start of the delivery, overs, runs, wicket type, ball line, and length, to assess suitability for ML solutions and applications of Google Vision API and TensorFlow-based deep learning models.

“Pythian helped us unlock the value in our data by giving us a platform that enabled us to very quickly integrate disparate data sets and put actionable insight into the hands of the people that need it.”

- Damian Smith | Director of IT, England and Wales Cricket Board

Greet the Chief

Paul Vallée, President and Chief Executive Officer: Paul co-founded Pythian in 1997 and became CEO of the Company in 2005. His passion and foresight for using data and technology to drive business success have helped Pythian become a high-growth global company with over 400 employees and offices in North America, Europe, and Asia. Paul is a strong proponent of technical excellence as well as diversity in the workplace. Prior to founding Pythian, he worked as a data scientist.

Paul holds a Bachelor of Commerce in Management Information Systems from the University of Ottawa. He was acknowledged as “Top 40 under 40” in 2011 by the Ottawa Business Journal in recognition of Pythian’s growth to that time.

“Whether you’re already in the cloud, or considering a migration, Pythian can help you with all aspects of your cloud environment.”