Become a data-driven business with data consulting & engineering

Accelerate the intelligent transformation of your business by turning disparate data into strategic knowledge. Our comprehensive consulting and data engineering services combine strategy, domain expertise, and engineering excellence to lay the right foundations for data-driven growth, optimisation, and innovation.

Lay the data foundations for AI-augmented business

Rapidly advancing technologies like AI and GenAI are redefining possibilities. They help us create intelligent products, optimise processes, and shape more effective, resilient businesses. But they're only as good the data that fuels them.

Our comprehensive consulting and data engineering services focus on the ‘intelligence’ in ‘artificial intelligence’. We get your data flowing, so you can make better decisions, optimise processes, and innovate your products and services. 

Together, our data consultants, scientists, and engineers prioritise the practical things that can deliver tangible impact within your organisation. From breaking silos and connecting data inside and outside the business, to systematically capturing value from data within complex, highly regulated environments.

Our holistic data consulting & tech engineering services

Together, let’s accelerate your data transformation, helping you compete more effectively, deliver sustainable growth, and embrace the changing needs of your customers, colleagues, and markets.

  • AI solutions

    Turn AI opportunities into value-driving, product-ready solutions. Our teams help you systematically demystify, explore, and capture sustainable value from AI.

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  • Data platforms & engineering

    Implement the technical and data foundations to make data accessible and develop and operate product-grade data and AI solutions.

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  • Data-driven organisations

    Become a data-driven organisation at a strategic and technical level. Systematically capture value from data to gain competitive advantage.

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  • Data ecosystems

    Create a data ecosystem that guarantees accurate, timely, and complete data. Ensure seamless data flow between organisations for shared decision making and efficiency gains.


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  • Insights for impact

    Elevate your strategic decision-making with tailored data visualisation solutions. Our data consulting services give you the dashboards and tooling you need to empower teams with real-time data insights.

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AI solutions

AI is playing a critical role in the intelligent transformation of every business and industry vertical. Lay the right foundations to turn proof-of-concepts into scalable solutions with a partner that combines deep domain expertise, integrated capabilities, and proven engineering excellence within complex and regulated spaces. 

  • Define and embed an AI vision the entire business can get behind. 
  • Identify your value-driving use cases.
  • Lay the right data foundation to ideate, prototype, operationalise, and scale AI and GenAI applications – in a safe, secure, sustainable, and ethical way. 
  • Turn your existing proof-of-concepts into scalable, product-grade solutions. 
  • Mitigate risks and evolving AI threats.
  • Implement industry-tailored AI models & apps responsibly.
  • Integrate AI into your product innovation roadmap. 

Data platforms & engineering

Our data platform architects and engineers design and build reliable, scalable data platforms tailored to your organisation’s needs. We architect data infrastructure solutions and data pipelines to reliably run reporting, self-service business intelligence, and support custom AI solutions. 

  • Identify functional and non-functional requirements to design your data platform architecture. 
  • Implement and scale your production-grade data platform and data pipelines. 
  • Operate and maintain your data platform with site reliability engineering practices. 
  • Establish data governance, compliance, and security.

Data-driven organisations

Together, we create a data transformation strategy aligned with your business strategy and your analytical needs. We identify high-value use cases and establish the right foundations to create ongoing value. 

Our data consultants combine business and technical expertise to deliver valuable and feasible solutions. 

  • Assess your data maturity to kickstart your data journey. 
  • Clarify and define your data vision, strategic goals and priority use cases. 
  • Implement the data governance and other organisational structures you need to bring to life state-of-the-art concepts such as data mesh.

Data ecosystems

Data-driven change starts with the right data ecosystem, whether you’re a government department, regulator, or service provider in healthcare or financial services. 

Effective data flow and governance across your organisation and those you work with is essential for knowledge share and systemic efficiency gains. 

  • Ensure your data ecosystem is built on a shared understanding of the value, behaviours, and outcomes you want to achieve. 
  • Make accurate and impartial data available in real-time for effective and collaborative decision making and action. 
  • Create shared parameters, tooling, and techniques for working with data across your ecosystem.
  • Define governance and the rules of engagement between organisations to ensure transparency and trust. 

Insights for impact

Our data consultants, engineers, and UX specialists develop data analytics and visualisation tools that improve decision making, helping you drive operational efficiency and unlock competitive advantage.

  • Implement the groundwork and tooling for superior, data-driven decision making.
  • Empower teams with self-service business intelligence.
  • Transform your ESG decision-making and reporting. 
  • Uncover new opportunities for growth, innovation, and competitive advantage. 
  • Harness our data expertise to define your data visualisation concept. 
  • Implement the right technical infrastructure and create dashboards and data visualisation tools that empowers you teams. 
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A principled and proven approach to data strategy & engineering

Benefit from our principled and proven approach to data-led value creation – built on a foundation of ethical practice.

Focused on value delivery

Gaining real competitive advantage from data and AI technologies requires business acumen, technical expertise, and customer centricity. Our teams combine these key capabilities to create measurable value for your business.

Principled and ethical

Every AI application is at risk of decision-making bias. This bias can lead to harmful outcomes for you and the people impacted by your decisions, services, and products. With 15 years’ experience in principled data science and data engineering, we ensure your data and AI solutions are ethical, transparent, and safe.

Reliable

A key data and AI challenge is transforming prototypes into reliable, production-grade solutions. Our decades of experience, frameworks, and best practices ensure your solutions are reliable, secure, and scalable.

Compliant

Benefit from our experience developing data and AI solutions in complex, regulated environments including health and wealth. Solve complex problems while meeting the highest standards in compliance and classification.

Gain data insights from our people, partners, and peers

Explore our latest research, insights, and perspectives on the most important trends and opportunities in data.

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Philipp Morf

Head AI & Data Practice

Dr. Philipp Morf holds a doctorate in engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) and holds the position head of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) Solutions division at Zühlke since 2015. As Director of the AI Solutions Centre, he designs effective AI/ML applications and is a sought-after speaker on AI topics in the area of applications and application trends. With his many years of experience as a consultant in innovation management, he bridges the gap between business, technology and the people who use AI.

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Dan Klein

Former Global Chief of Data & AI

Dan is the Global Chief of AI & Data and has extensive experience working across a diverse range of sectors, including government, transport, telecoms, and manufacturing. As a skilled engineer and strategic advisor, Dan effectively connects the needs of leadership with the technical expertise of teams to successfully drive data transformation initiatives for organisations. He brings a unique combination of strategic thinking and deep knowledge of data and engineering to his consulting work. 

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Philipp Morf

Head AI & Data Practice

Dr. Philipp Morf holds a doctorate in engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) and holds the position head of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) Solutions division at Zühlke since 2015. As Director of the AI Solutions Centre, he designs effective AI/ML applications and is a sought-after speaker on AI topics in the area of applications and application trends. With his many years of experience as a consultant in innovation management, he bridges the gap between business, technology and the people who use AI.

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Keya Desai

Group Head Digital Experience

Keya is a seasoned technology leader with a strong background in professional services and technology consulting. Her passion lies in building diverse high-performing teams and turning tech-enabled opportunities into practical solutions that provide tangible value for clients. As the Group Head of Digital Experience, Keya drives global strategic initiatives to continually refine and enhance our digital experiences offerings portfolio, helping clients stand out in a competitive market by combining human centric design, technology excellence and business innovation to create strong digital relationships with their customers.

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