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Before AI can transform your business, fix your data

AI can’t deliver business value until your data does. In many enterprises, legacy pipelines, inconsistent definitions, and siloed datasets introduce friction that prevents scalable, production-grade AI. These technical debts slow down innovation.

Grid Dynamics helps enterprise data teams modernize their stack end-to-end—with cloud-native architectures, automated lineage and observability, and scalable DataOps pipelines. We implement robust governance models and metadata management frameworks to ensure your data is accurate, accessible, and AI-ready at scale.

It all starts with a data assessment where we provide a clear view of your current state, a target state design that considers your ambitions and needs, and a clear actionable plan to get there.

Enabling enterprise-wide data modernization to support AI maturity

To successfully implement data techniques that align with AI maturity, enterprises must modernize their data architecture and operational model.

Operational model scheme

REDEFINE THE OPERATIONAL MODEL

From data gatekeepers to AI accelerators

Transform your data team from custodians to catalysts. Let business units own their data while your specialists build the AI ecosystem that powers them. Your new data talent equation puts business teams in charge of collection and quality, frees engineers to master tooling and governance, and empowers scientists to craft the prompts and models that matter. Position your data team as the vital connective tissue between vision and execution—the accelerant for enterprise-wide transformation.

SECURE & ACCESSIBLE DATA

Embrace data as a product mindset

Treat data as a product, not a byproduct. Clear ownership, intuitive discovery, and secure access transform information from hidden asset to strategic advantage. AI-powered catalogs replace tribal knowledge, AI capabilities enable self-service analytics, dynamic controls like data masking and lineage protect without stifling innovation, and modern data build tools bring software discipline to data transformation. The result? Data products that drive decisions instead of collecting dust.

Scheme of 8 characteristics of a data product
RAG process scheme

MODERN DATA ARCHITECTURES

Ground your data in reality

Enable meaningful AI interactions grounded in enterprise knowledge with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures. RAG ensures responses are accurate, relevant, and traceable to source documents—particularly valuable for proprietary information and rapidly changing data. By generating vector embeddings that capture semantic meaning, RAG enables AI to understand relationships between concepts while providing clear lineage to verified sources. This means reduced hallucinations and context-aware AI applications for customer support, knowledge assistance, and intelligent search.

SKILLS & COMPOSITION

Build an AI-era data team

Prepare your workforce for the AI era by evolving skillsets to drive performance, innovation, and long-term AI success. Transform data scientists into AI engineers specializing in prompt engineering, advanced observability, and automation. Expand ML engineers’ expertise in LLM infrastructure, and RAG to support scalable AI applications. Leverage AI to automate repetitive processes, optimize workflows, and implement structured modernization—freeing your teams from operational bottlenecks to focus on high-impact innovation.

A comparison of team composition in pre-AI and AI era

Establish advanced AI-enabled DataOps practices for continued success

As data practices and operating models evolve, traditional data operations simply can’t keep up. Advanced DataOps techniques are critical to the success of data modernization efforts, as they help businesses manage modern data complexity. Enterprises can standardize processes to efficiently ingest and process both structured and unstructured data, implement robust frameworks for prompt engineering and vectorization to optimize unstructured data management, and enforce guardrails and semantic caching to ensure data integrity and reliability.

These practices help organizations adapt to evolving data formats and use cases, aligning storage and retrieval strategies with business needs. However, no single tool fits all purposes—which is why we help businesses establish customized DataOps processes and best practices to maintain long-term efficiency, scalability, and AI readiness.

Scheme of DataOps practices for continued success

Leverage AI to power DataOps

AI is also a tool for data teams to drive more efficient processes. It can be applied across all areas data teams are responsible for, such as:

Scheme of areas that data teams are responsible for
  • Catalog and metadata management services: AI helps manage metadata with robust schema management and full-text search, maintains a glossary-based knowledge base, provides lineage tracking, and seamlessly integrates with quality checks and pipelines.
  • Data quality services: AI generates automated quality checks, deploys anomaly detection algorithms, and integrates tightly with existing data pipelines and metadata systems, providing continuous, proactive data integrity.
  • Data pipeline orchestration: Complex, interdependent data workflows become scalable through AI-powered orchestration, which handles hundreds of flows and proactively alerts teams of issues.
  • Access control: Ensuring compliance with privacy regulations such as GDPR and CCPA, AI supports rigorous dataset- and field-level security through encryption and access governance.

Get started: Data platform assessment

Accelerate your organization’s ability to embrace AI with a modern data platform. Grid Dynamics offers a comprehensive data readiness assessment that looks at your existing infrastructure and provides you with clear, actionable steps to mature with a recommended roadmap.

3 hrs

Leadership workshop

Align your executive team on AI data ambitions in this focused session. We’ll define platform requirements, establish value-based outcomes, and ensure stakeholder alignment on the modernization approach—setting clear success metrics for the journey ahead.

~1 month*

Assessment

Our experts evaluate your current infrastructure, tools, processes, and data using our proven assessment framework. Through targeted interviews with Data, IT, and business teams, we’ll identify gaps and opportunities, culminating in a comprehensive end-state architecture and value-based roadmap.

~3 months

Milestone 1

Achieve your first tangible business outcome from the roadmap. This initial implementation demonstrates measurable value, builds organizational momentum, and validates the strategic direction—typically focusing on a high-impact use case that showcases the potential of your modernized data platform.

* Timeline may vary based on organizational complexity and scope

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