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Data platform assessment & consulting services

Evaluate, benchmark, and transform your data ecosystem to support reliable analytics, AI readiness, and business growth. From a deep-dive data platform assessment to consulting and full-scale modernization, ITRex helps teams move from uncertainty to execution.
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Why invest in data platform consulting & assessment?

Your data platform is essential for making informed decisions. But if your platform is stitched together by manual patches, scattered tools, or undocumented pipelines, it’s often impossible to know which part is unstable and what to fix first. A structured data platform assessment helps establish clarity before investing in change. Collaborate with our data consulting team to:
Eliminate data silos & broken pipelines

We trace and map all of your data across departments and systems, identifying gaps, redundancies, and improper data processing workflows. Then we recommend streamlined architectures and pipeline fixes for your data platform solution, ensuring that data flows where and when it should.

Improve dashboard stability & performance

Our data platform consultants identify what is slowing down your BI reports and dashboards. Next, ITRex will optimize queries and fine-tune your data platform solution, allowing you to focus on driving your business forward rather than troubleshooting.

Standardize KPIs & semantic layers

An ITRex data platform consultant helps define consistent metrics and build a semantic layer that reflects your business. This aligns teams, reduces confusion, and builds trust in your reports—paving the way for self-service analytics.

Prevent vendor lock-in

As part of our data platform assessment services, we document key processes and define business logic, reducing your company’s reliance either on a single vendor or on data analysts’ manual work. ITRex also develops governance frameworks that increase transparency, reusability, and team self-sufficiency.

Prepare for AI adoption

Our data platform consultants identify gaps in real-time data access and processing, model-ready structures, and pipelines. With these insights, we create a roadmap for implementing AI at scale—from smarter analytics to anomaly detection and intelligent automation.

What’s included in our data platform assessment service?

Enterprises need a clear understanding of how their data platform works today and where it's hindering innovation. ITRex's data platform assessment organizes fragmented signals into a prioritized action plan using cross-functional evaluation. This is not a simple audit or checklist—it’s a hands-on analysis that identifies root causes, aligns stakeholders, and provides actionable recommendations.
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What the data platform assessment covers

Our data platform assessment evaluates both business and technical dimensions, so findings translate into real operational impact. Here’s what we do to achieve the goal:

  • Stakeholder workshops across analytics users, data owners, and decision-makers
  • Technical documentation, KPI definitions, reporting logic, and decision workflows review
  • Data source inventory and data quality assessment
  • Ingestion, ETL/ELT workflows, and orchestration review
  • Architecture and infrastructure analysis across storage, processing, and performance
  • Semantic layer, data models, and BI/reporting logic review
  • AI agent and Gen AI evaluation (if deployed)
  • Governance, access control, and compliance gaps (e.g., RBAC, PII handling)
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How the data platform assessment unfolds

Before presenting recommendations, ITRex’s data platform consultants follow a structured, time-boxed approach that establishes a reliable baseline:

  • Intake & alignment. We align goals, success criteria, stakeholders, and scope.
  • Current-state analysis. We review data sources, architecture, pipelines, dashboards, and documentation.
  • Workshops & validation. We conduct focused sessions with business and technical teams to surface undocumented processes, bottlenecks, and risks.
  • Findings & prioritization. We group and prioritize issues based on impact, effort, and business relevance.
  • Roadmap definition. We convert findings into a phased, implementation-ready roadmap with clear next steps.
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What you get from the data platform assessment

At the end of a data platform assessment, you receive tangible, fully documented deliverables so your internal team—or ITRex—can move directly into execution:

  • Data platform assessment report with clear findings and recommendations
  • Issue backlog highlighting technical debt, data quality risks, and process gaps
  • Architecture and data flow diagrams visualizing dependencies and bottlenecks
  • Executive summary deck connecting technical issues to business impact
  • Proposed data platform architecture that covers both business need and market trends
  • Implementation-ready roadmap outlining quick wins and long-term improvements
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What the engagement model looks like

ITRex delivers data platform assessment services as fixed-scope engagements with clearly defined deliverables and timeline expectations

  • Typical duration: 4–6 weeks, depending on platform complexity
  • Delivery model: fixed-scope, fixed-price assessment
  • Delivery team: led by senior data architects and consultants, governance specialists, and business analysts
  • Environment fit: suitable for cloud, hybrid, and on-premise platforms

What data platform consulting services do we offer?

While data platform assessments identify gaps and opportunities, consulting services focus on implementation and continuous improvement throughout the data platform lifecycle. ITRex’s data platform consultants can assist you with:

Implementation & optimization

  • Data ingestion & integration—our data platform consultants connect systems, set up highly effective pipelines for data processing and cleansing, and eliminate manual processes
  • Storage & management design—from data warehouses to data lakes and lakehouses, we build sustainable, scalable storage solutions
  • Processing & transformation—we optimize ELT/ETL processes and data models for speed and clarity
  • Governance & security—ITRex defines policies for quality, access control, and compliance

AI & ML enablement

  • Data readiness for AI—we validate your data platform solution’s readiness to support AI agents, anomaly detection, and real-time testing
  • Cost-effective scaling—our data platform services include optimizing cloud usage and infrastructure for cost efficiency
  • Model integration support—an expert data platform consulting team connects your data and data pipelines to ML models for seamless deployment and monitoring
  • AI experimentation environments—ITRex offers AI PoC services, setting up safe, scalable sandboxes to validate AI use cases before production

Ongoing support

  • Performance monitoring—our data platform consulting services encompass a continuous review and tuning of your data platform as your needs evolve
  • Knowledge transfer & training—ITRex helps you make the most of your custom data platform through best practices and knowledge transfer
  • Change management support—a data platform consultant assists you with rolling out improvements across teams and tools
  • Platform health checks—we perform regular audits to detect new risks, gaps, or optimization opportunities

What do you gain from our data platform consulting services?

Once the direction is clear, our data platform consultants support hands-on delivery, which improves day-to-day platform operations and demonstrates progress in numbers. Here’s what we guarantee:
Stabilized analytics & reporting

Your dashboards won’t break, queries will run faster, and reporting logic will stay consistent across teams. Our data platform consultants validate these improvements against agreed performance targets and usage patterns.

Production-grade data quality & governance

We enforce data ownership, access control, and compliance in daily workflows. This makes audits and troubleshooting easier by reducing uncertainty around trusted sources.

Operational semantic layer.

KPIs and business logic are embedded in models and workflows to standardize self-service analytics. Your data platform consultant also tracks changes to prevent metric drift across departments.

Execution of roadmap initiatives

ITRex improves pipelines, architecture, and BI using recommendations from the data platform assessment. We prioritize quick wins but always consider the big picture, like AI integration or system scaling.

Documentation & knowledge transfer

Developer-grade documentation from our data platform consulting company empowers your internal teams to maintain, extend, and scale the platform without relying on third parties.

How do data platform assessments & consulting support industry-specific goals?

No matter the industry, data leaders face the same pressure: reports can’t be trusted, teams argue over numbers, and platform work turns into firefighting. Our assessments identify what is preventing value delivery, while data platform consulting helps implement long-term improvements.

Digital health

When product and ops teams rely on fragmented data, growth stalls. Data platform consulting services set the stage for reliable reporting and analytics, ensuring:

  • Data reliability for patient, device, and engagement analytics
  • Unified reporting across product, operations, and growth teams
  • Platform readiness for AI-driven insights without overengineering compliance

Logistics & supply chains

Visibility gaps and incomplete data impede decisions. Our data platform consultants unlock end-to-end operational insight and analytics, improving planning, service, and cost control:

  • End-to-end visibility across shipments, inventory, and partners
  • Performance-focused analytics for planning, forecasting, and optimization
  • Platform foundations for anomaly detection and operational AI

Manufacturing

Due to inconsistent data, quality issues and downtime go unnoticed. With data platform consulting, you get shop-floor visibility and analytics that minimize risk. Our know-how spans:

  • Data platforms supporting quality monitoring and anomaly detection
  • Reliable self-service analytics for production, yield, and performance
  • Scalable foundations for predictive maintenance and operational reporting

Data platform assessment tech stack

Data Governance

Data Integration & orchestration

Cloud services

DWH services and DB

Why choose ITRex as your data platform consulting & assessment partner?

Data platform assessment is the starting point, not the end goal. At ITRex, data platform services combine technical depth with real-world execution, resulting in a ready-to-implement solution rather than a slide deck. Here’s how our team supports you on your transformation journey:
We run hands-on technical audits We review data sources, pipelines, platform infrastructure, dashboards, and semantic models to uncover issues that impact the performance and usability of your data platform solution.
We engage the people behind the data Through joint workshops with analysts, engineers, and business leaders, as well as deep technical analysis, our data platform consultants uncover undocumented processes, misaligned KPIs, and data governance gaps.
We get to the heart of the problem Instead of patching symptoms, our data platform consulting team conducts root cause analysis and offers precise solutions to reduce technical debt and streamline operations.
We deliver action-ready blueprints Every finding comes with documentation, architecture diagrams, and clearly scoped action steps. No fluff—just a plan that can be transformed into a modern data platform solution.
We collaborate transparently From secure access to your systems to weekly check-ins and shared dashboards, you’ll always know where the data platform consulting project stands and what comes next.
We’re vendor-agnostic As customer-oriented data platform consultants, we aim to optimize your stack and processes. You get practical recommendations tailored to your goals—not bound to a specific vendor.

FAQs

What is data platform consulting?

Data platform consulting is a strategic and technical service that helps organizations assess, optimize, and modernize their data ecosystems. It covers every layer—from ingestion and storage to transformation, analytics, governance, and AI enablement. Whether you’re dealing with fragmented systems, unreliable reports, or slow pipelines, a data platform consultant helps you identify bottlenecks and implement the right data platform solutions for your business. At ITRex, we tailor our data platform services to your architecture, industry, and strategic objectives.

What does a data platform consultant do?

A data platform consultant assesses your current infrastructure, identifies problems, and creates a scalable, actionable roadmap for improvement. This includes auditing data pipelines, improving data quality, creating semantic layers, and assisting teams in implementing modern practices such as MLOps or real-time analytics. As experienced data platform consulting partners, we can help you choose vendor-neutral technology and support both strategy and implementation. Our consultants collaborate across departments—from data engineers to business leaders—to align your platform with core KPIs.

What’s the difference between data platform assessment & data platform consulting?

An assessment is a foundational part of data platform services—it uncovers technical debt, ineffective pipelines, and governance gaps. Data platform consulting goes a step further by helping you act on those findings through roadmap development, architecture redesign, and implementation support. While assessments identify the “what,” data engineering and platforms consulting help you plan and execute the “how.” At ITRex, we offer both, often starting with an assessment and evolving into full-service data platform consulting.

How long do typical data platform assessment & consulting engagements take?

A standalone assessment usually takes 4–6 weeks, depending on your platform complexity and stakeholder availability. Full data platform consulting engagements—including implementation—can run longer, but we always work in agile, time-boxed phases. Our modern data platform consulting model is flexible and adapts to your team’s bandwidth, internal priorities, and project scope. We also provide fixed-price options for clarity and control.

Do we need to use your engineers for implementation?

Not necessarily. We provide actionable, fully documented recommendations your in-house data team can implement independently. However, many clients choose to keep us engaged for delivery—especially when dealing with complex custom data platform projects or scaling cloud data platform consulting initiatives. Our implementation support ensures a smooth transition from roadmap to reality, with faster time to value.

Are data platform services only suitable for cloud-native organizations?

No. Our data platform consultants routinely work with hybrid environments, on-premise systems, and legacy platforms. Whether you’re cloud-native, migrating to the cloud, or maintaining critical systems on-premises, we adapt our cloud data platform consulting approach to fit your stack. Our solutions are built around your business needs—not a specific technology.

What does a data platform do?

A data platform is the foundation of your company’s data ecosystem. It centralizes data collection, transformation, storage, and analysis—streamlining every process from daily reporting to AI workload management. A well-architected data platform solution enables self-service analytics, ensures data governance, and supports scalable, real-time decision-making and AI integration. ITRex’s data platform services are designed to make these outcomes a viable reality.

What are the five layers of a data platform?

Most modern data platforms include five essential layers:

  • Ingestion—bringing in data from various sources
  • Storage—structured/unstructured data storage (e.g., data lakes or warehouses)
  • Processing—ETL/ELT workflows and transformation logic
  • Semantic layer & modeling—organizing business logic and KPIs
  • Analytics & access—dashboards, reports, and AI/ML applications

Our data platform consulting services cover each of these layers, helping you standardize, scale, and govern data across your organization.

What is an example of a data platform?

Snowflake, Google BigQuery, Amazon Redshift, Microsoft Fabric, and Databricks are examples of modern data platforms that provide scalable storage and processing for analytics and machine learning, respectively. But a data platform isn’t just a tool—it’s a custom architecture that reflects your unique goals. That’s why ITRex offers custom data platform solutions tailored to your stack, use cases, and business model. Our consultants help you select and configure the right technologies, whether you need a new solution or optimization of an existing one. For more information on data platforms and their capabilities, see this article about data analytics costs.