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Data consulting services for AI-ready enterprises

We offer data consulting services that turn scattered data into governed, AI-ready foundations for analytics, Gen AI, and automation, empowering your teams to implement reliable data and AI solutions and make decisions faster
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What do you get with ITRex’s data consulting services?

If your data is dispersed across tools, teams, and clouds, AI, analytics, and automation initiatives quickly come to a halt. Our data consultants will assist you in unifying, governing, and operationalizing this data so that all stakeholders can use it with confidence and at the pace of your business. Explore ITRex’s data consulting services to:
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Enable a single source of truth for analytics + AI products

ITRex is a data consulting company that helps you unify definitions, metrics, and master data across teams into one consistent foundation. The outcome? Fewer reporting conflicts, more accurate decisions, and data analysis, data science, and Gen AI features based on the same reliable datasets.

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Provide governed self-serve access without breaking compliance

Our data consulting services aim to provide faster access to trusted information through catalogs, role-based controls, and curated datasets. This will allow you to scale self-service operations without exposing sensitive data or introducing security and compliance risks.

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Deliver data quality & lineage teams can trust in production

With our data consultancy, you can implement quality checks, monitoring, and end-to-end lineage from source to dashboard or model. This way, you catch issues early on, know exactly where numbers come from, and increase confidence in your analytics and AI tools.

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Create AI-ready foundations for RAG, copilots & automation

ITRex’s data consulting team prepares Gen AI-ready knowledge sources with strong metadata, clean structure, and retrieval-friendly pipelines. This results in secure, context-aware search tools, RAG, copilots, and AI agents whose performance improves over time.

What data consulting services does ITRex offer?

ITRex delivers end-to-end data consulting services—from strategy and implementation to long-term optimization. When data volumes, velocity, or source diversity grow, our team designs solutions that stay reliable and cost-aware at scale.

Data platform assessment

Use our data consulting services to evaluate your data assets, environments, platform health, current capabilities, and ways to maximize the value of your data. ITRex can also assess your AI readiness, including data quality for training, lineage, privacy, and access patterns for Gen AI workloads.

Data & AI strategy

With our data consulting services, you can assess your current data landscape, prioritize high-ROI initiatives, and define a delivery roadmap for analytics, ML, and Gen AI—grounded in governance, security, and realistic operating models.

AI-ready data solutions & engineering

ITRex’s data consulting services include data solutions and engineering, which standardizes modeling, ingestion and transformation, and access across sources. You get reusable datasets, stable SLAs, and production-grade pipelines that do not fail when volumes, schemas, or tools change.

Modern AI data architecture

Our data consulting company designs resilient data platform architectures that balance cost, performance, and security—while seamlessly connecting systems across your whole data estate, not just AI and analytics systems.

Data warehousing

With our data consultancy, you can build or modernize data warehouses that deliver consistent metrics and governed reporting—optimized for query performance, workload isolation, and integration with operational systems and advanced analytics.

Data lake & lakehouse design

Our data consulting services help you implement data lakehouses or data lakes with clear zones, metadata, and lifecycle controls—so your raw data stays discoverable, governed, and cost-efficient, ready for analytics and AI/Gen AI model training when needed.

Data management & governance

ITRex is a data consulting company that sets up ownership, policies, and controls—so data remains consistent and auditable across domains. The result is fewer ad hoc “shadow datasets,” faster approvals, and better data reuse across systems and use cases.

Cloud & DataOps implementation

Our data consulting services help you run pipelines with CI/CD, automated testing, monitoring, and cost governance. This keeps releases predictable, reduces incidents, and lets your team enhance data platforms without downtime-driven firefighting.

AI-powered data analytics & BI

Collaborate with our data consultants to apply analytics, forecasting, and optimization, and standardize BI with governed metrics. We’ll help you move from static reports to actionable signals and consistent dashboards that improve planning, efficiency, and customer outcomes.

Data science & machine learning

Our data consulting services help with every step of machine learning delivery—from preparing data to deploying, monitoring, and updating models—so that your AI solutions stay consistent, controlled, and dependable in real-world usage scenarios.

What data solutions can ITRex deliver?

Beyond data consulting services, ITRex creates enterprise-grade data solutions you can adopt in select departments or company wide. We make sure our platforms scale well, are properly governed, and cater to your analytics, AI, and automation needs.

Enterprise data platforms

Our data consulting services help you consolidate scattered data assets into one enterprise data platform. Instead of reconciling spreadsheets, you’ll get consistent KPIs and reusable datasets, running BI, ML, and Gen AI tools on the same foundation.

Self-service analytics

As a data consulting company, ITRex can help you roll out self-service analytics that scales beyond a handful of power users. Instead of filing IT tickets, any team can use BI tools or natural-language interfaces to explore trusted KPIs without dealing with dashboard sprawl.

Customer & operations analytics

With our data consultancy, you build analytics that drives decisions in near real time, supporting forecasting, anomaly detection, and optimization. Our custom analytics tools improve planning, reduce waste, and respond faster to changes in demand and operations.

Gen AI knowledge layer

ITRex data consultants create and maintain Gen AI-ready knowledge bases for RAG and copilots. We design vector databases and pipelines, metadata, and evaluation workflows to improve answer quality, make responses auditable, and enable monitoring in production.

Data quality & observability program

ITRex is a data consultancy that creates measurable data SLAs and monitors them from start to finish. Our team implements automated checks, alerts, and root-cause tracing to reduce downstream incidents while increasing trust in reports, models, and AI model outputs.

How do our data consultants scale data & AI operations?

Building data platforms and AI solutions is only half the job. You also need repeatable delivery, clear ownership, and production monitoring. Work in tandem with our data consulting experts to run pipelines, models, and Gen AI workflows with fewer surprises and faster iteration.

DataOps
Our data consulting services help you standardize how data products are shipped and maintained. Expect faster releases, fewer broken dependencies, and clearer ownership across teams, even if your data sources and product requirements shift.
MLOps
As part of our data consulting services, we bring machine learning into production with reproducible training, controlled deployments, and continuous monitoring. You can track model drift, bias, and performance against real-world data as inputs and user behavior evolve.
LLMOps
Our data consultancy supports Gen AI in production with RAG pipelines, prompt and dataset versioning, evaluation, and safety checks. This allows you to track answer quality and latency over time, regardless of knowledge base, policy, or traffic changes.
AgentOps
Our enterprise data consulting team deploys AI agents with tool governance, guardrails, and audit logs to control what smart assistants can access and execute. This reduces operational risk while allowing for complete automation across your IT infrastructure.

What industries does our data consultancy serve?

Our big data consultancy helps clients transform fragmented, siloed data into AI-ready, industry-specific capabilities, fast-tracking ROI for your innovation initiatives. Our hands-on experience spans across multiple verticals, including:
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Digital health

  • Secure clinical and patient data platforms (HIPAA/GDPR-ready patterns)
  • Patient journey analytics and outcome prediction
  • Remote monitoring and connected care (IoT + wearables)
  • Clinical decision support and workflow automation
  • Data foundations for Gen AI copilots and RAG in healthcare

Logistics & supply chain

  • End-to-end visibility across shipments, inventory, and carriers
  • Forecasting and optimization for demand, routes, and capacity
  • Real-time tracking and exception management
  • Telematics and IoT analytics for fleet performance
  • Warehouse analytics to reduce delays, errors, and waste

Retail & eCommerce

  • Customer and product analytics across channels
  • Demand forecasting and inventory optimization
  • Pricing and promotion analytics
  • Personalization and recommendation foundations
  • Marketing segmentation and performance measurement

Manufacturing

  • Predictive maintenance, anomaly detection, and asset analytics
  • Quality management and process optimization
  • Real-time production performance and OEE reporting
  • Supply and inventory planning with forecasting
  • Energy and waste analytics for cost reduction
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Biotech & life sciences

  • Research and lab data integration across tools and teams
  • AI-ready data pipelines for discovery and development workflows
  • Secure data environments with governance and auditability
  • Predictive analytics for trials, manufacturing, or patient outcomes
  • Knowledge layers for Gen AI search and expert assistance

Fintech

  • Fraud detection analytics and risk modeling foundations
  • Customer analytics for retention and cross-sell
  • Regulatory reporting and data traceability
  • Real-time monitoring for transactional patterns
  • Secure data platforms for AI adoption

How do we approach data consulting?

Our data consultants follow a proven methodology that reduces uncertainty in complex projects. You get clear priorities, a realistic roadmap, and iterative releases—so progress is visible early and your data platform can grow without major rework.

We start with a focused assessment of your data stack, key sources, pain points, and constraints. You get a clear view of gaps in quality, architecture, governance, and operations—plus quick wins and risks that can derail delivery.
Next, we align stakeholders on use cases, success metrics, desired future state, and a practical roadmap. This includes sequencing initiatives, estimating effort, and selecting the right platform patterns to make sure you’re investing in business value, not tooling trends.
We define how data should flow from sources to consumption—from integration patterns to storage layers, access models, and security controls. The goal is an architecture that scales across domains and stays maintainable as your needs evolve.
Our data consulting services deliver prioritized capabilities in working releases. We implement pipelines, models, and data products iteratively. This gives teams reusable outputs early and reduces the risk of long “big bang” initiatives.
We turn the foundation into adoption by supporting BI, advanced analytics, ML pipelines, and Gen AI workflows such as RAG. This helps business teams move from data availability to measurable outcomes in operations and decision-making.
Finally, we set up DataOps, MLOps, and LLMOps practices so delivery and quality don’t depend on manual interventions. Monitoring, testing, and clear ownership keep the data platform stable and ready for continuous change.

Why work with our data consultants?

Cloud & data platform partners. ​​Our data consultants work across Microsoft Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud, with strong hands-on experience in Databricks and Snowflake cloud data platforms. With this expertise, you choose a best-fit stack and implement it faster, without forcing a one-platform answer to your business challenges.
AI-first delivery model. ​​We integrate AI into our SDLC to provide fast and impactful data consulting services, using intelligent tools to accelerate analysis, delivery, testing, and documentation. This leads to faster iteration cycles, higher delivery quality, and better control over project costs and scope.
End-to-end ownership.​​ ITRex is a data consulting company that can lead your initiative from assessment and strategy through engineering to ongoing support, minimizing handoffs and ambiguity. You get one delivery track, clear roles, and accountability across phases.
Security & governance by design. ​​We implement row-level access rules, PII masking, and audit trails to prevent overexposure of sensitive data. We also add retention policies and lineage so compliance reviews go faster and teams can trace KPIs back to source systems.
Itrex’s team are experts in their trade. The software development they provided was critical to advancing the project to the next level.
Jeff Block
Jeff Block
VP of Process and Technology
PotentiaMetrics, Inc.
When you hire them, you're actually going to get something valuable.
Daniel Schuler
Daniel Schuler
CTO
Hyginex
Itrex is an outstanding partner. They don't even feel like a contractor, but more like a fully integrated team.
Ashley Lewis
Ashley Lewis
Director of Product Management
Dollar Shave Club

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Data consulting FAQs

Why is expert consulting vital in enterprise data projects?

Enterprise data projects fail when teams rush into tools before agreeing on basics. In retail, “sales” can mean gross, net, online-only, or returns-adjusted—so five teams can create five different dashboards and get five different results. A data consulting company aligns definitions, owners, and KPIs before creating a staged roadmap. This method allows you to reduce rework and avoid infighting.

What is the role of a data consultant?

Data consultants transform hazy business and technology objectives into a plan that your teams can implement. They inventory sources, identify gaps, and determine the quickest path to value. Consider a support organization that requires an AI assistant to summarize tickets. A data consultant defines “good,” connects the appropriate data, and establishes access and quality standards. Then your employees can get answers without having to do any manual work.

What’s the difference between data consulting & data engineering?

Data consulting provides answers to the questions “what” and “why.” Data engineering answers “how” by creating pipelines, models, and datasets. Hire data consultants when you require prioritization, architecture options, and clear success metrics. Bring engineers when you need rapid delivery. Many data consulting services include both, but the main objective of “classic consulting” is to avoid costly rebuilds when stakeholders shift the goalposts.

How do data consultants set the stage for AI implementation?

AI doesn’t need one “perfect” dataset. It needs the right data for the job—e.g., tables for forecasting, text for Gen AI search, and streams for anomaly detection. Data consultants pick high-value use cases, prepare inputs, and define retrieval and monitoring logic. With a data consultancy in the lead, your models and copilots learn from reality, not from messy, mismatched sources.

How long does a data consulting engagement take & what do I get?

Most data consultancy work starts with an assessment that takes ~2–6 weeks, depending on sources, access, and complexity of your infrastructure. You get a report, architecture diagrams, a prioritized backlog, and estimates. Then you move into delivery iterations. In regulated or multi-region setups, the assessment goes deeper—so execution runs smoother and with fewer surprises.

How much does data consulting cost?

In the US, data consulting services often run about $100–$300/hour via consulting firms, while specialized data science can reach $150–$350/hour. Freelance analysts or BI support may sit closer to $55/hour. Your total comes from the team mix (data consultant, engineer, architect), the number of sources, and how fast you want results. To get a precise estimate, get in touch with the ITRex team!

What do DataOps, MLOps & LLMOps look like day-to-day?

Think of it as “keeping the data and AI machine running smoothly.” In an ERP + CRM + warehouse stack, DataOps checks pipeline health and freshness so reports don’t break on Monday morning. MLOps tracks drift so forecasting stays accurate when demand shifts. LLMOps helps test prompts, update RAG content, and watch answers so your Gen AI assistant stays on policy. Data consultants set the playbook for these specialized services.

How do I choose a reliable data consulting company?

Ask for evidence rather than buzzwords. A reputable data consulting firm displays a sample assessment report, an architecture diagram, and how they define success. You should also inquire about who makes decisions, how your potential partners handle security, and how they share knowledge with your team. It’s also a good idea to talk to industry references. Do not hire data consultants who are unable to explain tradeoffs in plain language.