Data & AI

Driving end-to-end innovation.

Your  organization possesses a wealth of data. Effectively capturing and analyzing this data to guide commercial decisions in a secure and responsible way is critical to organizational growth and success.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a futuristic notion—it’s a strategic necessity. Incorporating established AI applications and newer forms like generative AI (GenAI)  into your digital transformation strategy is essential to increase revenue, streamline operations, and comply with regulatory requirements. Whether it’s leveraging advanced analytics for real-time insights or employing GenAI to streamline operations, AI-driven decision intelligence and acceleration can provide a lasting competitive edge in today’s marketplace.

Where should you begin with AI?

The good news is that there is no single 'best' approach to implementing AI—the key is to start. You can approach data from various angles, each offering unique opportunities and value. Whether your focus is on strategy (corporate, digital, or data), data governance, a specific problem statement, or enhancing data quality for insights, all paths are valid. Each brings value to the business and naturally ties into the others.

Our Accelerated Intelligence Methodology helps facilitate your AI journey and ensure value in every engagement.

Accelerated intelligence methodology

Align AI with strategy

Synchronized progress.

Drive ROI

AI is an investment that requires a return.

Build a future-ready enterprise

Modernize with cloud and AI.

Protect sensitive data

Your data, guarded.

This methodology includes our five-step approach to AI implementation:

  1. Educate: Gain a comprehensive understanding of AI, its capabilities, and its implications.
  2. Identify use cases: Discover AI solutions tailored to your organization’s specific needs.
  3. Prepare and build: Ready your organization for AI deployment.
  4. Enable and adopt: Integrate AI within your business processes.
  5. Go and grow: Harness AI to resolve business challenges and drive growth.

What types of AI services can we help you with?

We offer end-to-end AI services, customizable to your needs. They include:

Assessing data, people, processes, and infrastructure readiness for AI

  • Data readiness assessments
  • Data strategies
  • AI impact assessments
  • AI training and adoption acceleration

Implementing automated data governance and controls

  • Data catalogues
  • Unified governance frameworks
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Establishing a clean data repository for AI or insight generation

  • Enterprise data platforms
  • Data and workload migrations
  • SQL migrations
  • Data cleansing
  • Data ingestion

Enhancing workflows, systems, or operations with insights or AI

  • Enhancing workflows, systems, or operations with insights or AI     Advanced analytics
  • Machine learning
  • Optimization engines
  • Power automation

Integrating GenAI into daily operations

  • AI copilots
  • OpenAI platform integration

Why choose BDO?

Once we have an initial discussion to confirm alignment of our values and culture with yours, BDO stands out for three key reasons:

  • Data and AI expertise are our core strengths. We are backed by a team of over 500 specialists with a strong market reputation.
  • We bring the agility of a boutique firm backed by the power of BDO’s global organizationwe do business where you do business.
  • Our end-to-end technology capabilities enable a holistic approach through one connected team.

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A tactical roadmap to successful GenAI adoption

Discover the ideal route for successfully adopting generative AI (GenAI), tailored to align with your business objectives. Gain insights on navigating this journey, whether through experimental phases or strategic frameworks, and harness the transformative potential of AI for your business growth.

Work with an award-winning AI team

BDO Canada has won the 2023 Microsoft Canada AI Impact Award for utilizing Microsoft technology to deliver transformative AI solutions to businesses across Canada.

Work with an award-winning AI team

BDO Canada has won the 2023 Microsoft Canada AI Impact Award for utilizing Microsoft technology to deliver transformative AI solutions to businesses across Canada.

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