How is Analytics different from a Big Four consultancy or a systems integrator?

Big Four firms are strong at strategy decks but typically hand off delivery to separate implementation teams, often offshore, which is where most transformations lose momentum. Systems integrators are strong at delivery but rarely engage at the strategic level where the biggest decisions get made. We deliberately operate in the middle: a single integrated team that does the executive advisory work and the hands-on delivery, with the same people accountable from boardroom to production. For European mid-market and upper-mid-market enterprises, that integrated model usually means faster decisions, lower coordination cost, and a clearer line of accountability than the alternatives.

We're already deep into the EU AI Act and NIS2 readiness. Can Analytics help even if we have an internal compliance team?

Yes, and that's actually the most common scenario we work in. Internal legal and compliance teams understand the regulation; what they often lack is the technical translation: how to architect AI governance into a Microsoft Fabric environment, how to operationalise NIS2 incident reporting inside an existing SOC, how to evidence DORA resilience without rebuilding everything from scratch. We work alongside your compliance, security, and engineering teams to bridge that translation gap, prioritise what genuinely matters, and embed regulatory readiness into systems rather than into binders.

Where will our data sit, and how do you handle Swiss and EU data sovereignty?

Every architecture we design defaults to EU or Swiss data residency, with regional failover that stays within the same regulatory boundary. For Swiss clients with FADP and FINMA obligations, we typically deploy to Swiss data centre regions with no transatlantic data transfer. For EU clients, we use EU regions with GDPR-aligned governance from day one. We do not subcontract delivery to non-EU teams without explicit client approval, and all engagement data, documents, code, design artefacts, is held in EU-resident systems by default. Sovereignty is a starting assumption, not a feature we add on request.

We've been burned by consultants who recommend complex platforms we can't operate after they leave. How do you avoid that?

Independence after handover is one of our four operating convictions, and it shapes how we scope every engagement. Three things make the difference in practice: we recommend technology your team can realistically operate, not the most sophisticated option on the market; we build enablement and documentation into the delivery plan from the start, not as a final-week scramble; and we default to a Build-Operate-Transfer model where we run the capability with you, then progressively hand over until your team owns it end-to-end. We measure engagement success partly by how quickly our day-to-day involvement decreases, which is the opposite incentive of most consulting firms.

We're a Microsoft-heavy organisation. Are you the right partner, and what if some of our stack is on AWS or Google Cloud?

We're technology-agnostic in our advisory work, but in practice most of our delivery happens on the Microsoft ecosystem — Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Microsoft Fabric, Azure, and Microsoft 365 with Copilot. That's where we have the deepest engineering bench and where most European enterprises with strong governance requirements end up landing. Where clients run hybrid estates with AWS or Google Cloud components, we work with those environments directly and integrate them into the broader architecture. We will tell you honestly when a non-Microsoft solution is the better fit for a specific problem — that's part of the job.

Strategic clarity for European enterprises

Analytics is a Swiss consulting firm built around a simple idea, that the organisations who lead the next decade will be the ones who turn data, AI, and technology into operational reality, not just strategic intent. We exist to help them get there.

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Our vision

A Europe that leads on technology, on its own terms

We see a Europe where enterprises don't have to choose between innovation and sovereignty. Where AI, data, and digital infrastructure are deployed at scale without surrendering control to non-European platforms or non-European rules. Our work exists to make that future operational, one organisation, one architecture, one decision at a time.

Our Mission

Turn strategic ambition into operational reality

Most transformation programmes fail not for lack of vision, but for lack of follow-through. We close that gap. By combining executive-level advisory with hands-on delivery, and by staying engaged until the capability is genuinely owned by our clients, we help European enterprises build the data, AI, and security foundations the next decade will demand.

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EU & Swiss data residency

Every architecture we design defaults to European data sovereignty.
No exceptions, no workarounds.

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Integrated practice areas

AI, data, cloud, security, applications, and people, under one roof, one team, one accountability line.

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Active markets

Switzerland, Germany, and the Netherlands, with European reach and local presence in each.

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Years of senior expertise

Combined leadership experience guiding European enterprises through cloud, data, AI, and regulatory transitions.

Founded in Zug. Built for Europe.

Analytics was founded in Zug on a simple observation, European enterprises were being underserved by the consulting market they had access to. The global firms sold strategy decks but handed delivery to teams who'd never sat in the original meetings. The local integrators built capable systems but rarely engaged at the strategic level where the most consequential decisions were made. And both, increasingly, were treating European regulation as friction rather than as the strategic context it actually is.

We built Analytics to close those gaps. A single integrated team. Senior advisors who stay through delivery. Architectures designed for EU and Swiss data sovereignty from the first whiteboard session. And a working assumption that GDPR, the EU AI Act, NIS2, and DORA are not obstacles to design around, but disciplines that, taken seriously, produce better systems and stronger competitive positions.

Today we work with leadership teams across Switzerland, Germany, and the Netherlands on the decisions that will define their next decade. The model has stayed the same since day one: advisors who deliver, delivery that lasts, and clients who run things confidently long after we've handed over.

Our approach

A four-phase model built for European enterprises

Every engagement follows the same disciplined arc, diagnose before prescribing, design before building, deliver in production, and operate until the capability is genuinely yours. No black boxes, no permanent dependency, no surprises in month nine. This is how strategic ambition becomes operational reality.

Diagnose

We start with evidence, not assumptions. Current-state assessment of your data, technology, security posture, and operating model, measured against where the business actually needs to be.

Design

Target architecture, business case, governance model, and roadmap, built collaboratively with your leadership team and grounded in regulatory reality from day one. We design for your operating model.

Deliver

Production systems, not pilots. We deploy in iterations with clear milestones, measurable outcomes, and direct accountability to the executives sponsoring the work.

Operate

We stay until your team can run the capability without us, through enablement, documentation, and structured handover. Build-Operate-Transfer is the default, not the exception.