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Data & Analytics Services for the AI Era

Most data problems aren’t technology problems. They’re often modeling, governance, and integration problems hiding behind technology. Disconnected systems, inconsistent business definitions, and legacy platforms can make it difficult to trust the numbers before anyone opens a dashboard. Hitachi Vantara reports that 58% of organizations are being held back from realizing AI value by legacy data infrastructure, contributing to an estimated $108 billion in wasted AI investment each year. We help fix the data foundation first, so analytics, reporting, and AI can work from trusted information.
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The Challenge

Business Data Challenges We Solve

Most data problems aren’t technology problems. They’re often modeling, governance, and integration problems that affect how confidently teams use their data. When systems do not connect properly, or business definitions differ between teams, reporting becomes harder to trust. We help address these issues at the foundation.

01

Disconnected Data Across Multiple Systems

When data sits across disconnected ERP, CRM, finance, operational, and other business systems, teams can end up working from different versions of the same information.
Gartner has estimated that poor data quality costs organizations an average of at least $12.9 million per year. Stronger data management can help reduce the operational and financial impact of inconsistent information.

02

No Shared Definition of the Business

If one department defines revenue differently from another, two dashboards can produce different answers even when they use the same underlying data. A governed approach to business definitions helps establish consistency across reporting, analytics, and AI applications. This problem becomes more important as AI moves into business workflows. Insightsoftware’s 2026 survey found that 39% of organizations identified inaccurate or inconsistent AI outputs as a challenge, while only 51% of surveyed data leaders said they trust AI-generated insights.
A governed semantic layer, supported by the right context layer configuration, helps establish consistent business definitions across reporting, analytics, and AI applications.

03

Legacy Platforms Built for a Different Era

Many older data platforms were designed around scheduled reporting and traditional workloads. Modern businesses often need faster access to data, greater scalability, and stronger support for analytics and AI.
Gartner reported that 63% of organizations either lack or are unsure they have the data management practices needed for AI. Gartner also predicted that through 2026, organizations would abandon 60% of AI projects that are not supported by AI-ready data.
Data modernization can help create a more scalable foundation without losing the business logic and knowledge built into existing systems.

04

Reporting That Can't Keep Up

According to InsightSoftware’s 2026 survey, 63% of respondents said preparing data for AI consumption causes project delays, while only 31% of their AI projects had progressed beyond the pilot stage. Teams can end up spending more time reconciling numbers than using them. We automate data processes, centralize business logic, and create reporting environments that give decision-makers faster access to consistent information.
Our Services

Data Strategy, Engineering & Analytics Services

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Our data and analytics teams combine proven data warehousing and dimensional modeling practices with modern lakehouse engineering and semantic-layer approaches. The aim is to create a data platform that reporting, analytics, and AI can all use with confidence.
The data lakehouse market is projected to grow from $8.9 billion in 2026 to $49.2 billion by 2035, representing a 20.8% CAGR, according to Next Move Strategy Consulting. This reflects the wider shift toward platforms that bring together scalable data storage, analytics, governance, and AI workloads.

Data Strategy Services

A practical data strategy connects business goals with the right architecture, governance, processes, and technology. We assess your current environment and create a roadmap based on your priorities, data maturity, and future requirements.
Our services include:
  • Data strategy and roadmap development
  • Data governance frameworks
  • Data maturity and AI-readiness assessment
  • Business and technology alignment
  • Analytics and semantic layer planning
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Data Engineering Services

Reliable analytics depend on reliable data. We build scalable pipelines using dimensional modeling principles where they still earn their keep, and modern medallion/lakehouse patterns where they don’t, so business logic lives in one governed place instead of scattered across dashboards.
Our capabilities include:
  • Data pipeline development
  • ETL and ELT implementation
  • Dimensional and lakehouse data modeling
  • Data transformation and business logic centralization
  • Performance optimization
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Data Modernization Services

Legacy systems don’t just slow reporting down; they block your path to AI. We help businesses migrate to modern, Databricks-based lakehouse platforms while protecting the business logic and definitions that took years to get right, so modernization doesn’t mean starting over.
Our modernization services include:
  • Legacy platform assessment
  • Data migration planning
  • Lakehouse and platform modernization
  • Cloud migration
  • Performance improvement
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Data Platform Services

The right platform provides the foundation for reporting, analytics, and AI. Increasingly, that foundation also needs a governed semantic layer between underlying data and downstream users, applications, and AI tools. This helps ensure that different consumers work from the same business definitions.
As a Databricks partner, we design data platforms with governance, scalability, and AI requirements considered from the beginning.
Our services cover:
  • Data platform architecture
  • Cloud and lakehouse data platforms
  • Semantic and context layer design
  • Platform migration and integration planning
  • Platform optimization
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Business Intelligence & Data Analytics Services

Turn business data into reporting and data analytics that people, and increasingly AI assistants, can query with confidence because the definitions behind every number are governed in one place.
Services include:
  • Executive dashboards
  • KPI reporting built on a governed metrics layer
  • Self-service analytics
  • Operational reporting
  • Business performance monitoring
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Data Governance & Quality

Governance is what makes a semantic layer trustworthy instead of just another translation layer to argue about. We establish the standards, ownership, and quality controls that keep your definitions consistent as your data estate grows.
Our services include:
  • Data governance
  • Data quality management
  • Master data management
  • Security and compliance support
  • Metric and dimension standards
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Our Process

How We Deliver Data & Analytics Solutions

Every engagement follows a structured process that pairs proven modeling discipline with modern platform thinking, reducing implementation risk while keeping an eye on where AI will need to plug in next. This approach helps us build scalable data and analytics solutions around your existing business priorities.

Assess Your Current Data Environment

We map your existing systems, data models, reporting processes, and business challenges, including where definitions diverge across teams, to identify gaps and priorities before implementation begins.

Develop Your Data Strategy

We define a practical roadmap that aligns technology investments with business priorities, including governance, architecture, integration, and where a semantic or context layer fits your stack.

Design Your Data Platform

Our data architecture teams design architectures that borrow what still works from Kimball-style dimensional modeling, conformed dimensions, clear grain, and business-friendly structures, and combine it with modern lakehouse patterns built for scale and AI consumption.

Implement and Modernize

We build pipelines, integrate business systems, modernize legacy platforms, and stand up a semantic layer that enables reports, dashboards, and AI applications to draw from a single governed source of truth.

Deliver Business Insights

The final stage makes data accessible through dashboards, reporting, and, increasingly, AI tools and agents that query your metrics layer directly, so decisions move faster without sacrificing trust.

Business Outcomes

What You Can Achieve with Better Data & Analytics

Modern data capabilities improve reporting, increase efficiency, and prepare your business for what comes after the dashboard. Our engagements are built around outcomes you can measure.

Create a Single Source of Truth

Bring data from multiple systems into one trusted platform, governed by shared definitions, not just shared tables.

Establish One Set of Business Definitions

Move beyond “the data is connected” to “the metrics mean the same thing everywhere,” through a governed semantic layer every report and application draws from.

Modernize Legacy Data Platforms

Replace outdated systems with lakehouse platforms that improve performance, reduce maintenance costs, and are built to support what’s next, not just what’s now.

Enable Faster Business Reporting

Automate reporting and provide real-time access to business data, so leaders act on information instead of waiting for it.

Reduce Manual Data Processes

Centralize business logic instead of re-deriving it in every spreadsheet and dashboard, cutting rework and reducing the number of “versions of the truth” in circulation.

Build a Foundation for AI and Advanced Analytics

AI depends on the quality, structure, governance, and context of the data behind it. Hitachi Vantara’s 2026 research found that 84% of data-mature organizations reported measurable AI ROI, compared with 48% of organizations classified as data laggards. A well-modeled and governed data environment gives organizations a stronger foundation for deploying AI safely and at scale.
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Technology Expertise

Which Data Platforms and Technologies Do We Support?

We work with leading cloud platforms and modern data technologies to build scalable solutions, and as a Databricks partner, we bring deep expertise in lakehouse architecture, semantic layer tooling, and AI-ready data engineering.

Cloud Platforms

  • Microsoft Azure
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Modern Data Platforms

  • Databricks (Partner)
  • Snowflake
  • Microsoft Fabric
  • Azure Synapse Analytics
  • Google BigQuery
  • Amazon Redshift

Business Intelligence & Reporting Tools

  • Microsoft Power BI
  • Tableau
  • Looker
  • Qlik Sense

Data Engineering & Semantic Layer Technologies

  • SQL
  • Python
  • Apache Spark
  • dbt
  • Semantic and metrics layer frameworks
  • REST APIs
  • Azure Data Factory
Industries We Support

How Do Our Data & Analytics Services Support Different Industries?

Every industry has its own reporting, operational, compliance, and data requirements. We build data and analytics solutions around those specific business needs.

Manufacturing

Improve production visibility, supply chain reporting, inventory management, and operational performance.

Retail & Consumer

Connect sales, customer, and inventory data to improve forecasting, customer insights, and business performance.

Distribution & Logistics

Improve shipment tracking, warehouse reporting, route optimization, and supply chain visibility.

Technology & SaaS

Build scalable data platforms that support product analytics, customer reporting, and business growth.

Financial Services

Strengthen reporting, governance, compliance, and risk management through trusted, well-modeled data.

Supply Chain

Create connected data environments that improve planning, procurement, and operational decision-making.

Healthcare

Improve reporting accuracy, operational efficiency, and access to trusted healthcare data while supporting compliance requirements.
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Why BMCG

Why Choose BMCG for Data & Analytics Services

We combine business services, data engineering, and modern platform expertise, including deep Databricks partnership experience, to help organizations build scalable data capabilities and AI-ready data foundations that hold up under AI-scale demands, not just quarterly board decks.

01

Business-Driven Data Strategy

Every engagement starts with your business objectives, not a technology shortlist. We build strategies around measurable outcomes.

02

Modeling Discipline, Modernized

We bring the rigor of dimensional modeling, clear grain, conformed dimensions, and business-friendly structures, and apply it inside modern lakehouse and semantic layer architectures, rather than treating it as a relic of the on-prem warehouse era.

03

Databricks Partner, Lakehouse-Native

As a Databricks partner, we design platforms built for scale, governance, and AI consumption from the start, not retrofitted after the fact.

04

Practical Implementation Approach

We work within your existing environment, reducing disruption while improving long-term capability.

05

Long-Term Partnership

Our engagement continues past go-live, supporting optimization, semantic layer evolution, and new AI use cases as your business changes.
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Data & Analytics Success Stories

See how we’ve helped businesses modernize legacy platforms, build governed semantic layers, and prepare their data for both better reporting and AI-driven decision-making.
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Automated Cash Discount Configuration for a Precision Industrial Manufacturer

  • Industry: Industrial Manufacturing
  • Platform: SAP S/4HANA
  • Module: SAP SD Pricing
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Customer Returns Management Transformation for a Large-Scale Manufacturer

  • Industry: Manufacturing
  • Platform: SAP S/4HANA
  • Module: SAP SD, QM, MM, FI
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Customer Returns Management Transformation for a Large-Scale Manufacturer

  • Industry: Manufacturing
  • Platform: SAP S/4HANA
  • Module: SAP SD, QM, MM, FI
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Frequently Asked Questions

How do I know if my business needs data & analytics?
If your teams rely heavily on manual reporting, regularly disagree over which numbers are correct, or struggle to use data consistently across departments, your data environment may need a review. We can assess your current environment, identify gaps, and recommend practical next steps.
It depends on the condition of your current platform, your business goals, and your AI ambitions. In many cases, modernizing, including adding a semantic layer on top of what you have, is more cost-effective than a full rebuild. We assess and recommend the approach with the best long-term value.
We start with your business objectives, existing systems, and reporting challenges, then build a strategy covering governance, architecture, integration, and where a semantic or context layer fits your roadmap.
Yes. We integrate ERP, CRM, finance, supply chain, manufacturing, and other business systems into a connected environment, with shared definitions, not just shared pipes.
We identify inconsistencies, remove duplicates, standardize data, and establish governance processes that support accuracy over time. We also address ownership of business definitions because many data quality issues start with inconsistent rules about what the data is supposed to mean.
Secure storage, system integration, scalable lakehouse architecture, governance, real-time reporting, and, increasingly, a semantic or context layer that lets both people and AI systems query the same trusted definitions.
A semantic layer sits between your data and the dashboards, reports, and AI tools that use it. It keeps business definitions such as “revenue” and “active customer” consistent across systems, helping prevent conflicting answers. As AI adoption grows, the demand is rising too. Futurum Group projects semantic layer technology growth to increase from roughly 16% year over year today to 30% by 2031.
Yes. We work with Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Databricks, Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, Tableau, and other enterprise data tools.
It varies by environment size, number of systems, and implementation complexity. Smaller projects may take a few weeks; enterprise-wide modernization is typically delivered in planned phases over several months.
Security and governance are built into every stage: clear standards, access controls, governance frameworks, and compliance processes throughout, not added at the end.
Common outcomes include more reliable reporting, fewer manual processes, improved operational efficiency, modernized data platforms, stronger governance, and a better foundation for analytics and AI.
Hitachi Vantara’s 2026 research found that 84% of data-mature organizations reported measurable AI ROI compared with 48% of organizations classified as data laggards. The objective is to create data your teams can trust and use.
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Whether you’re modernizing a legacy platform, improving business reporting, building a modern data environment, or preparing your organization for AI, BMCG can help you identify the right approach and create a practical roadmap. Let’s turn complex data into a foundation your teams can trust and use.
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