Data analytics consulting I RSM Canada

What is data analytics consulting?

Data analytics consulting helps your organization leverage your existing data so you can make more informed strategic decisions, enhance key processes and gain a competitive advantage. Data analytics consulting solutions evaluate your data to reveal patterns, develop data strategies, implement modern data infrastructure platforms, and deliver training and ongoing support to drive better business outcomes.

In today’s digital economy, organizations are prioritizing real-time insights, predictive analytics and artificial intelligence-driven decision making to stay ahead. But the journey from raw data to actionable information is complex—the RSM Middle Market AI Survey 2025: U.S. and Canada finds that 92% of organizations report AI implementation challenges; this underscores the need for a structured data strategy to manage complexity and risk. RSM data analytics consulting helps you bridge this gap, transforming data into a strategic asset that fuels growth, agility and success.

With an effective data analytics consulting strategy, your company can benefit from:

Making better, more confident decisions at scale
Improving productivity, profitability and customer experience
Achieving cost reduction and operational efficiency
Growing revenue and expanding margin
Mitigating risk and establishing audit readiness
Accelerating digital transformation through agility and velocity
Enabling a strong data culture, data literacy, AI readiness and responsible AI use
Maintaining a competitive edge

Why RSM?

The RSM team takes a holistic approach to data analytics consulting services, delivering enterprise intelligence solutions through:

End-to-end experience

From data vision and governance to advanced analytics and AI, we deliver holistic solutions tailored to your business.

Cross-functional collaboration

We work across finance, information technology, operations and business units to establish an accurate, secure and actionable data framework.

Speed to market

We understand the middle market and have developed several data solutions as RSM-built accelerators that align with success factors within specific industries and technology platforms, helping you quickly drive increased insights and advantages from your data.

Our approach: Turning data into advantage

RSM provides a broad range of data analytics services tailored to meet your needs wherever you are in your data analytics journey, including:

Data strategy, governance and master data management

Today, growing companies are inundated with data’s exponential opportunity for increased value through data-driven insight. We concentrate on strategically unlocking the value of data and analytics in a tailored approach to your business and culture, allowing you to dispel the static and instead focus on priorities that matter.

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Data engineering, architecture, modeling, integration, cloud, platform and data migration

You already have volumes of potentially transformative data within your business—now what? We can implement tools and strategies that take advantage of your data to streamline your operations, provide a clear picture of your organizational and customer needs, deliver real-time data transparency, and target more effective business outcomes.

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Enterprise intelligence, reporting and analytics

Is your data enabling real change within your organization? We implement strategies to help you utilize your existing data to deliver timely insights that can elevate decision making, efficiency and productivity. With comprehensive analytics and dashboards, we give you the agility required for a competitive advantage.

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Advanced analytics/data science and AI

Transition from being a reactive organization to a powerhouse market leader with proactive decision making. Our experienced advisors utilize and implement advanced technologies, such as AI and prescriptive and predictive analytics, to streamline operations so you can better understand your customer base and further grow your digital maturity.

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Managed data analytics services

From data migration and integration to master data management, reporting and advanced analytics, our end-to-end outsourced solutions provide seamless support for data optimization, governance and analysis. With on-demand access to data professionals, leading technologies, industry best practices and proven methodologies, you can leverage reliable, data-driven insights without the complexity of managing in-house analytics infrastructure.

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Frequently asked questions

: Bad data equals bad AI. Your data should be able to answer all your questions. Sound strategy, accurate and governed information, and a stable analytics environment are all critical factors for applying AI throughout your organization.

: Many companies do not have the bandwidth, knowledge or experience to successfully build out a data analytics center of excellence. Working with professionals who are experienced in this space can provide insight and solutions to enable successful AI implementation.

: Apply a strategic approach to creating an enterprise intelligence center of excellence. A solid data foundation is also needed to truly trust your data and the insights it provides you. You need to be agile, and a mature data environment enables that.

: Data migration involves transferring data to different systems or databases, often during an upgrade or a transition to a different storage solution, such as the cloud. The data modernization process updates legacy data storage platforms and infrastructure to more modern and efficient cloud-based solutions.

: The right data analytics consulting services advisor should blend deep industry experience, cross-functional collaboration and a proven process to deliver measurable business outcomes—not just technology implementations. In addition, to be effective, your provider should be a cultural fit that truly cares about your success and the success of your customers.

Ready to bring your data to life?

Contact our data analytics consulting services team to gain further insight into the different platforms used to build a solid data foundation, create operational efficiencies through data governance and understand how you can further grow your organization through data and AI.

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Making a connection: City of Cornwall leverages AI in local government

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"RSM is focused on helping modernize the operations of public sector and government services clients, and over the last several years, we have collaborated with the City of Cornwall to support their evolving technological needs. This initiative is the perfect example of how AI can support modernization efforts in public sector operations."

- Rhett Nussey, Management Consulting Government Services Leader, RSM US

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