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Data platform consulting services

Evaluate, design, and transform your data platform to facilitate real-time insights, AI readiness, and business growth. From deep-dive assessments to full-scale modernization—the ITRex data platform consulting squad has got you covered!
Data Platform Consulting Services

Why invest in data platform consulting?

Whether your company comes from the healthcare, life sciences, logistics, retail, or energy industry, your data platform is essential for making informed decisions. But if it's held together by manual patches, scattered tools, or undocumented pipelines, it's working against you. Our data consulting team can help you:
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 services, we document key processes and define business logic, reducing your company’s reliance either on a single vendor or internal data analysts. 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 data platform consulting services does ITRex provide?

No matter if you're fixing reporting chaos or considering launching AI agents, our data platform services help you move from firefighting to strategic planning! ITRex supports every phase of your data journey—from evaluation and strategy to implementation and optimization.

Assessment & strategy

  • Current state analysis—as reliable data platform consulting partners, we assess your architecture, data sources, pipelines, storage, governance tools, and reporting
  • Technology evaluation—ITRex data platform consultants deliver recommendations based on scalability, performance, cost, and compatibility
  • Use case prioritization—we strategically align technical improvements with high-impact business needs to maximize ROI
  • Roadmap development—we develop modernization plan tailored to your goals, including data migration (if it is necessary)

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 get from our data platform consulting?

ITRex’s data platform services result in a comprehensive springboard for long-term data maturity—with deliverables your team can act on and outcomes that support real business growth:

Issue backlog

Data platform consulting helps you determine where things stand—from your current architecture to gaps in the data model, integration gaps, and technical debt.

Dashboard & report performance audit

Our data platform consultants thoroughly inspect your analytics and reporting tools, flagging redundant logic and highlighting opportunities for optimization.

Data quality & governance framework

By tapping into data platform consulting, you establish rules and processes for managing data accuracy, ownership, access control, and compliance, all of which are critical for scalability and trust.

Implementation-ready roadmap

Our data platform consulting services produce a phased action plan that outlines both quick wins and long-term projects, tied to clear business impact, effort and ROI estimates, and strategic priorities.

KPI definitions & semantic layer design

By standardizing KPIs and creating a business-ready semantic layer that encourages consistent, trustworthy reporting, you lay the groundwork for an efficient data platform solution.

Documentation for internal knowledge transfer

From pipeline logic to data model design, our dedicated data platform consultants will prepare developer-grade documentation to reduce knowledge gaps and onboard new team members faster.

How does our data platform consulting process unfold?

Our structured data platform consulting approach is intended to reduce risk, align your priorities, and provide value quickly. Through expert-led data platform services, we identify bottlenecks, repair broken data flows, and prepare your data platform solution for growth, governance, and AI enablement.
Intake & planning. We lay the foundation for targeted data platform consulting by defining business goals, pain points, and success metrics.
Data landscape review. We assess your source systems, data availability, formats, and integration points to pinpoint inefficiencies and silos in data platform solutions.
Pipeline & processing assessment. We evaluate your ETL/ELT, orchestration, and transformation workflows to uncover quality risks and opportunities to streamline your data platform solution.
Architecture & infrastructure assessment. We review schema design, storage layers, and platform performance, ensuring your data platform solutions’ scalability.
Reporting & BI optimization. We analyze dashboards and reports for usability, performance, and logic reuse, helping reduce fragility and improve trust in your insights.
Roadmap & execution plan. We deliver a roadmap—complete with ROI estimates and phased implementation options—to evolve your data platform from reactive to strategic
Security & compliance audit. We help clients meet data privacy and security requirements—from GDPR and HIPAA to RBAC controls and PII masking.

Why choose ITRex as your data platform consulting partner?

Data platform assessment is not our ultimate 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 and 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 does a typical data platform consulting engagement 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.