Data and Analytics Consulting Services

For visionaries who demand more than just analytics, we turn data into a driver of AI‑powered results

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Is your data ready for the future?

Visionaries don’t just manage their data; they make it pay off. IBM Consulting connects your data strategy to the technologies shaping tomorrow, from artificial intelligence to agentic workforces, so your investments deliver results rather than complexity. We focus on what matters: transforming scattered data into a strategic asset that fuels growth and keeps your organization ahead of the curve.

With research‑driven insights and partnerships that scale, IBM Consulting brings clarity to your digital ambitions. Our consultants help you align strategy with execution and gain tangible value from every byte. The payoff is simple: smarter decisions, faster innovation, and a data foundation ready for whatever comes next.

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Capabilities
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Data strategy 

Design the right data and analytics strategy to support your enterprise goals, harnessing your data for all your use cases, including artificial intelligence, analytics, and other digital uses.

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Data architecture 

Become a data-driven organization and put your data to work with a data fabric architecture. Provide users access to the right trusted data at the right time regardless of where it resides, while minimizing cost.

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Data modernization  

Transform your data on any platform in order to improve business processes and make better decisions. Our consultants can meet you where you are, with expertise on AWS, Databricks, Microsoft, Salesforce, Snowflake, and more.

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AI and advanced analytics

Empower your organization with the latest advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning and automation to support the full data science lifecycle, from prepping and exploring data to building, deploying, managing and monitoring models.

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Data product maintenance

Move away from expensive, monolithic data warehouses to manageable and reusable data products for the multiple use cases needed to keep your organization ahead of the curve

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Digital sovereignty and governance

Different industries have unique sovereignty needs beyond data location, including governance, access, and conditions. IBM treats sovereignty as a strategic advantage, empowering clients with control, autonomy, and customer trust. Learn how our architectures translates concerns into actionable requirements.

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How we work
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Our consultants use modern data accelerators to enhance our data transformation delivery, accelerating time to value through AI, the collective wisdom of IBM® and industry best practices. The tools are ready to deploy on any on-prem, cloud or hybrid cloud environment, operating in multiple industries, across multiple geographies. Surge your time to value and transform your data environment in a matter of weeks, rather than months.
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IBM Consulting Advantage
Using IBM and partner technology, IBM Consulting Advantage is an AI services platform that allows for easy, customized access to proprietary methods, purpose-built AI assets and models and role-based generative AI assistants. Learn how to reimagine your work with AI.
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IBM Garage™
Ideate, build, measure, iterate and scale solutions seamlessly with our end-to-end framework of design thinking, agile and DevOps practices. Achieve speed-to-value and adopt breakthrough technologies through the collaborative partnership created with your team and a diverse set of IBM experts in business, design and technology.
Benefits 35%  

Faster time to using your data using our proven blueprints, methods and modern data accelerators¹

20%  

Reduction in decision-making time due to real-time data insights provided for British Sugar

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2X  

ROI from AI capabilities when data is trusted2

Insights

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The Data Differentiator: Data Intelligence
Learn data intelligence helps organizations discover, curate, trust, and access data to transform it into actionable insights
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Is data management the secret to generative AI?
Successfully leverage generative Al by having high-quality data. Click to watch this discussion on why there is no AI without data.
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Mastering proprietary data for AI to unleash new products with L'Oreal
Learn about how IBM helped L’Oreal make their data accessible in order to drive AI innovation.

Market recognition

IBM Consulting is named one of Forbes World Best Management Consulting firms of 2024  

IBM Consulting’s Data analytics service received a 5-star rating. Discover what sets us apart.

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Related solutions AI consulting

Create intelligent workflows that use AI, data and risk analytics to turn AI aspirations into tangible business outcomes.

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Automation consulting

Digitize and automate workflows. Automation with AI enables your entire organization to be always-on, optimizing operations to provide seamless business continuity.

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AI governance consulting

Weave responsible AI into the fabric of your business.

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Are you unleashing the full potential of your enterprise data?

Create a customized, go forward data strategy and execution plan, tailored to your business needs.

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Footnotes

¹ Based on results of IBM Consulting client data engagements in a traditional data environment

IBV Ceo Guide to generative AI, Platforms, data, and governance 2023