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BNL Consulting, LLC is a private American computer software company, specializing in data analysis, data visualization, and enterprise integration. Originally founded by two former SAS enterprise architects, BNL now builds business intelligence systems for both private and public sector organizations throughout the United States. The company is still closely linked with SAS, as they are an official SAS partner and remain one of the largest professional services providers to SAS in the public sector.

BNL Consulting is headquartered in Rockville, Maryland, and has expanded since its 2007 founding, adding offices in Atlanta, Georgia (2008), Jacksonville, Florida (2010), Nashville, Tennessee (2012) and Chattanooga, Tennessee (2014). In 2013, the company announced that it was adding a staffing division.

Notable Customers
With their focus on the public sector, BNL has developed intelligence software for several prominent United States government agencies, including:
 * The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): BNL built and currently maintains the CDC's Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System, or WISQARS (pronounced "whiskers"). The WISQARS applications allow researchers and the public to create customized reports from state and national data on injuries and violent deaths, such as "'years of potential life lost' due to motorcycle crashes in New Jersey or the trend for annual number of dog bites in Nebraska."
 * The United States Census Bureau: The Standardized Economic Processing System (StEPS) is a generalized survey processing system used in the Economic Directorate of the U.S. Census Bureau to process current economic surveys. In 2013, BNL rebuilt the StEPS system--the original StEPS version was written in 1995--based on a service-oriented architecture (SOA), with a new interface developed in Java using Eclipse RCP (Rich Client Platform) and a communication layer to move transactions from the client to the server.
 * The National Collaborative for Bio-Preparedness (NCB-P): BNL developed the NCB-P prototype system to "provide a unified, multi-threat, bio-surveillance resource to improve health-related event detection and response" with an analytic overlay supporting alerts and queries. The NCB-P began as a joint project of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina State University, and the SAS Institute, funded by the United States Department of Homeland Security for the purpose of expanding the capabilities for biological surveillance by integrating available biological data.

Internal development
In addition to work for third-parties, BNL builds internal projects to promote the capabilities of big data software.
 * Big Data Twitter: Created as a proof of concept, BNL developed a Big Data Twitter application to collect, store, and analyze complex data generated from interactions on Twitter. The application aggregates information based on behavior and social evidence with the intent to enable better decision-making supported by socially-generated data. Projected uses for the technology include: disease outbreak prediction, adaptive real-time inventory management, and brand engagement monitoring.

Staffing
In 2013, BNL Consulting added a new division focused on information technology staffing which provides temporary, temp-to-hire and direct hire technical staffing services throughout the United States. Later in the year, BNL also launched a junior developer program that finds affordable programmers to supplement the development staff of their clients.