25 Top IT Consulting Companies to Know

With tech rapidly evolving, these consulting companies help clients drive IT innovation.

Written by Sunny Betz
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UPDATED BY
Margo Steines | Oct 30, 2024

Any company looking to compete in the 21st century needs a powerful digital strategy — but developing one that stands out from the competition is easier said than done. Devising a strong tech infrastructure and updating it to keep up with industry standards takes a lot of work that many companies simply don’t have the time or resources to take on alone.

This is where IT consulting companies and agencies can lend a hand. 

IT consultants help companies upgrade existing frameworks or adopt entirely new ones, supporting everything from software design to cybersecurity development. In addition to digital help, many agencies offer staffing solutions, making clients more self-reliant and enabling them to adapt new digital standards in the future.

Top IT Consulting Companies to Know

  • Accenture
  • Sia Partners
  • EPAM Systems
  • ThoughtWorks

 

Top IT Consulting Companies to Know

Combining IT consulting and outsourcing services, Cognizant provides companies of all backgrounds the opportunity to make their customers have better experiences. With a team of nearly 300,000 global employees, the company is capable of supporting projects like IoT development, intelligent

 

Mission Cloud consults on all things cloud computing within the Amazon Web Services ecosystem, from service to implementation and optimization. Consulting is delivered in packages, including Cloud Crew, which provides a team of AWS cloud specialists, and Cloud Elevate, which brings in high-level cloud solutions architects and engineers to work on an as-needed basis.

 

Catalyst Consulting Group focuses on assisting businesses, primarily government agencies, with technical solutions. These solutions often involve custom application development, cloud services, cybersecurity management, marketing automation and web design services. The firm has worked with the City of Chicago and South Carolina to implement response systems for COVID-19.

 

Sia Partners serves the IT and operational needs of businesses in the United States and other countries. The company’s process supports business transformations throughout their entire lifecycle, beginning with initial strategizing and following through deployment and project success analysis.

 

RapDev is a software development company that works with clients to uplevel their IT operations. The company specializes in consulting on ServiceNow and Datadog implementations, giving client companies the capabilities to make software releases faster and more effective. RapDev says its DevOps and SRE experts help customers “to increase observability, optimize digital workflows and improve end-user and developer experiences.”

 

Analytics8 is a full-service data analytics consulting firm that uses large sets of data to make it more usable for its clients. Its modernization services allow it to assist users in migrating their data from legacy systems to more modern cloud-based storage. The company's tailored and scalable IT solutions has allowed it to serve over 800 clients. 

 

West Monroe uses its expertise in digital technology and strategies to help organizations modernize their operations, as well as the products and services they offer to customers. Its team members have worked with clients on projects focused on IT workforce optimization, for example, and deploying artificial intelligence solutions to support new business opportunities.

 

Eastwall is a Microsoft-only IT consultancy with specialty focus on the Microsoft Azure cloud platform. Its strategic priority is in offering a premium level of access and expertise to its clients, while handling digital infrastructure, app data and applications for AI technology. The company is proudly composed of more than 90 percent veterans of Microsoft “Partner of the Year” companies and has an extremely close partnership with Azure, such that team members are privy to internal Microsoft programs and other high-value consulting assets.

 

Applied Value Technologies wants to help businesses speed up productivity, so its solutions include application management, application development, application support and advisory planning. The solutions allow companies to receive end-to-end support in developing application assistance.

 

Productive Edge is a digital strategy firm that primarily serves the healthcare industry. It works with clients to modernize legacy tech and implement newly-developed digital solutions, like remote patient monitoring, to eliminate existing inefficiencies and redundancies. The company’s IT consulting services handle cloud native solutions, AI, IoMT (Internet of Medical Things) and intelligent automation. 

 

Boston Consulting Group’s designated IT services work to aid clients in growth acceleration, digital design automation, people strategies, merger and acquisition support, as well as end-to-end margin improvement. The company also hosts a comprehensive selection of services for digital, technology and data inquiries, where businesses can boost their tech capabilities through digital strategy and tech and human-combined enablement.

 

Premier International is a data migration company. When global-scale companies buy smaller firms, Premier International works with the acquiring companies to bring data for financial systems, supply chains, human resources and client management over from the acquired companies. The goal in this kind of IT consulting is for the smaller business’ operations and systems, known as enterprise resource planning (ERP), to be folded in with the parent company’s operations.

 

Serving clients in industries ranging from transportation to education, HTC Global Services’ IT service portfolio can help companies leverage AI, cloud computing, marketing technology and other digital tools to become better economic players. The company maintains headquarters in Michigan, but the agency’s team of experts conduct business from offices throughout North America, Europe and Asia.

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EPAM Systems designs and builds custom software, IT systems and other products for leading tech-enabled companies across the globe. EPAM Systems’ methodology begins with an initial consulting stage, helping companies better understand their avenues for growth and improvement, before helping them design and engineer the best products to achieve their goals.

 

From political campaigns to advocacy companies, BlueLabs Analytics provides data services to improve its clients’ community reach. The company offers five solutions — including data science consulting and media analytics — to develop new strategies, discover opportunities and analyze outcomes. In the past, BlueLabs Analytics has worked on campaigns surrounding voter targeting and improving a brand’s reputation.

 

York Solutions has spent the past several decades providing staffing and IT services to companies in various industries, offering solutions such as software development, cybersecurity strengthening and application project design. York Solutions also offers support for professionals looking to break into the tech consulting field, with a dedicated job board and resume advising designed to help them fill slots in their desired areas.

 

InspiringApps is a consultancy that works with businesses to design and develop custom apps. Its clients represent sectors ranging from medtech and fintech to aerospace and defense. InspiringApps consults on the process of integrating apps into business strategy as well as ideating and executing the app builds. The U.S.-based company specializes in accelerated timelines.

 

ThoughtWorks consults clients on how to better implement technologies in their day-to-day operations, helping them holistically elevate their profile and achieve more success in their respective industries. ThoughtWorks aims to help brands strengthen their central technology foundations, making it possible for them to provide better experiences to their customers and encouraging long term sustainability.

 

Scaled Agile is the IT company behind the Scaled Agile Framework® (SAFe®), a corporate efficiency system that lowers overhead, decreases redundancies and allows operations to run in a lean and agile manner. Offering meticulously systematized SAFe® courses, trainings and workflows that organizations of any size can implement, Scaled Agile is a leader in the IT consulting space, serving market-leading global enterprise clients.

 

Genpact’s large team of IT support technicians provide assistance with employee onboarding, wealth management, compliance maintenance, automation and a broad array of other regular operations or tasks. The agency has over two decades’ experience serving the IT needs of some of the largest brands in the world, and its work has won the company awards from HFS, NelsonHall, Avasant and Everest Group.

 

zLinq offers strategic communication management services in collaboration with IT teams. It manages administrative day-to-day tasks, communication lifecycles and inventory, vendor negotiations, audits, utilization reviews and more. The company also facilitates unified communications, like call centers, internet and cloud connectivity and wide area networks.

 

Eventus Solutions Group consults with client organizations on delivering quality, innovative customer experiences. Its IntelligenceHub service, for example, unifies data from across a business’s contact center tech stack and analyzes that information to produce actionable insights.

 

Kin + Carta is a digital transformation company serving a diverse array of industries, including agriculture, healthcare, financial services, insurance and retail. It specializes in cloud modernization, connected IoT platforms and artificial intelligence, as well as “intelligent experiences,” which use data and platform design to create omni-channel experiences for users.

 

Accenture offers insights and professional services in various tech fields and related industries, with one service being technology consulting. Cloud strategy, resilient architecture construction, tech mergers and other IT consulting solutions are available. The company also runs an IT strategy blog, where readers can view stories and gain additional knowledge on focused tech topics.

 

Technossus helps companies uplevel their operations, increase revenue and maximize engagement through improving the ways they use IT. Specializing in consults and solutions for data and analytics, cloud computing and process engineering, Technossus examines both the granular and the high-level of how its client companies use tech. The company then provides recommendations for how to optimize software and tech investments.

 

Brennan Whitfield, Rose Velazquez, Ana Gore and Da’Zhane Johnson contributed reporting to this story.

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