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Data & AI Consulting Designed to Liberate and Activate Your Data

We’re a data consultancy on a mission to liberate and activate your data, empowering your business to drive growth and innovation.

Our expert data strategy, engineering, governance, analytics, and AI services give organisations of all sizes the freedom to unlock transformative insights – fuelling smarter decisions, optimised operations, and scalable success.

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Everything Data
Everything future.

Down to earth, hands-on and driven by a love of data-enabled transformation, our end-to-end blend of solutions have realised radical results for some of the UK’s leading businesses.

We worked together with Network Rail to help improve their Investment Authority process. Helping the business transition from Excel to a web-based app that brought clear advantages, giving users precise data, smoother workflows, and instant reporting.

We tripled both the client base and staff team when we built a global data platform for property startup, Income Analytics.

We are helping Yorkshire Water implement their data transformation program, with data enablement activities such as data quality improvement, data governance, and enterprise data architecture, not to mention the strategic data platforms and data science solutions helping to drive an overall business transformation ROI of £150m+.

What could we do for you?

Seize your data opportunity

Our tight-knit team of level-headed experts has a focused eye for navigating complexity and an appetite for making change happen.

We meet you wherever you are on your data journey, get under the skin of your challenge and stick right by your side as your hands-on, all-in partner at every stage of the life cycle.

With us, it’s all about outcomes, We’ll break down internal boundaries, devise solid solutions for your most pressing problems and leave you with the time, space and resources to focus on what matters.

By delivering rapid, 90-day data initiatives, we boost your capabilities and results quickly and in ways built to last.

We work as an extension of your team – getting leadership on board fast, simplifying decision-making, and taking every single person on the data transformation journey with us.

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With Artificial Intelligence You Can Get Your Data Talking.

Instead of asking ‘are we ready for AI?’, we challenge you to ask: is your AI ready for you?

This guide will help you to understand how Generative AI can help your productivity, drive growth, and put your customers at the heart of your business.

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Don’t just take our word for it…

Read what some of our fantastic clients have to say, and decide for yourself.

The collaborative partnership has developed a strong foundation on which we can build internally and with our external stakeholders. We believe it can help to optimise how data is used to improve outcomes in any organisation.

Rob Holtom, Information Commissioners Office

Working with Oakland has been as easy as working with a friend, but as valuable as working with a seasoned professional.

Tiana Chan, Elvie

Oakland doesn’t just focus on their bottom line, they do the right thing for the customer. They have been instrumental in upskilling our team and are one of the best consultancies I have worked with.

Richard Beck, Network Rail

If somebody wanted to ask me how do you find working with Oakland I would sing your praises forever.

Andrew Calvert, Yorkshire Water

Oakland helped save months of wasted time.

Sean Francis, Vodafone

This felt like a team effort which is unusual with some of the consultancies I have worked with in the past. The best description I’d have is, Oakland felt that they became an extension of our team. The team that were put on this project were really, really good, and I couldn’t have asked for any more from the process.

Thomas West, Technology Director, GMI Construction

Calm, pragmatic and result driven. Always a pleasure working with you guys.

Matthew Richardson, Chief Executive Officer, Income Analytics

From the first conversation with Oakland, you completely understood the problems we were facing and very, very quickly talked about the solutions. Oakland has been an absolute joy to work with. Not only are you fun and energetic, but you delivered a solution that will future-proof our business for many years to come.

David Green, Head of Innovation, Blenheim

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Case Study Leveraging Microsoft Azure for Market Expansion and Growth

Leveraging Microsoft Azure for Market Expansion and Growth

Oakland was tasked with building a cloud-based data analytics platform designed to propel Emerald into the future. This platform needed to provide comprehensive data governance and quality functionality, reconciling conflicting data from diverse sources.
Guide Plugged In or Left Out? Navigating the Emerging Generative AI Gap

Plugged In or Left Out? Navigating the Emerging Generative AI Gap

Generative AI is the buzzword of the moment. Attend any industry conference or skim through the latest Gartner hype cycle, and you’d be forgiven for thinking we’re on the cusp of a generative AI utopia. Everyone’s doing it. Everyone’s winning. Everyone’s transforming their businesses at warp speed.

Except, well… they’re not.

Here at Oakland, we’ve had some revealing conversations while compiling this report on the readiness of major organisations to implement generative AI. Spoiler alert: the reality isn’t quite keeping up with the hype.
Guide A Guide to selecting the right Data Governance Tooling

A Guide to selecting the right Data Governance Tooling

How can Data Governance Tooling help me? 

The Data Governance landscape is constantly changing. As business direction shifts, data technologies advance and new regulations come into force – governance has to change with them. Delivering Data Governance at scale and keeping up is a constant challenge.  

Having the right tooling and technology to make sure data is in the hands of the right people has never been more essential. So, it’s no wonder that Data Governance tooling like Alation, Atlan, Collibra, Informatica, and Purview (just to name a few) has never been so popular. We can bet that you have not only heard of these names, but also you are probably on every salesperson’s speed dial. So why is Data Governance tooling so popular, and is it the silver bullet to fixing all of your Data Governance challenges?
Case Study Transforming Data Governance for a Major UK Utility

Transforming Data Governance for a Major UK Utility

Our client, a prominent water supply and treatment utility company in the UK, boasts over 2,500 employees, a customer base of 5 million and impressive annual revenue of £1 billion. Servicing one of the largest counties, their operations faced challenges stemming from a complex data environment, hindering efficient operations and decision-making.
Case Study Improving Sustainability Reporting for Vistry Group

Improving Sustainability Reporting for Vistry Group

Vistry Group is the UK’s leading provider of affordable mixed-tenure homes. As a responsible developer, they work in partnership to deliver sustainable homes, communities, and social value, leaving a lasting legacy of places people love.

Operating across 26 regions, they build homes all over the UK through their respected brands; Bovis Homes, Linden Homes, and Countryside Homes leading their retail sales and Countryside Partnerships driving growth through their strategic partnership model.
Case Study Setting the Standards for Responsible Data Use with the ICO’s Data Strategy

Setting the Standards for Responsible Data Use with the ICO’s Data Strategy

The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is an independent regulator in charge of upholding the public’s information and data privacy rights. Data is core to their organisation, and they had an ambitious business strategy (ICO25) that needed underpinning with a tailored data strategy.

The ICO regulates and enforces the UK General Data Protection Regulation, the Data Protection Act 2018, and the Freedom of Information Act 2000, so they had a unique opportunity to set the tone for responsible and innovative data use in the public sector.
Case Study Helping a Leading Provider of IT Infrastructure Unlock Sales Growth with a 150% ROI

Helping a Leading Provider of IT Infrastructure Unlock Sales Growth with a 150% ROI

Our client, a leading provider of IT solutions and services to businesses and the public sector, has grown to be one of the largest IT services firms in the UK, with an ambitious vision for the future.

In the past, growth was delivered through hiring in more sales staff to drive engagement with potential customers; however, at the scale they were approaching, it was recognised that a new approach was needed. The company was looking for help to build a data analytics platform to aid the sales staff in identifying new opportunities. As a sales first business, finding ways to improve the productivity of their sales force is key to driving better margins.
Press Revolutionising Data Management: Oakland's 4-Step Method For A More Sustainable Future

Revolutionising Data Management: Oakland's 4-Step Method For A More Sustainable Future

With data centres being the world’s second-largest source of greenhouse gases, Oakland, a leading expert in data-driven business transformation, have shared a 4 step process that businesses and data teams can use to adopt a more sustainable approach.

As the world becomes increasingly digitised, the environmental impact of data management practices has come under scrutiny. According to recent studies, data centres contribute approximately 2.7% of global greenhouse gas emissions, surpassing even the aviation industry (2%).  

In response to this environmental challenge, Oakland’s approach combined with their experience aims to revolutionise how organisations manage their digital data, reducing their carbon footprint and driving change for a sustainable future.
Press Network Rail Embraces AI: Oakland's Partnership Marks a New Era in Rail Industry Innovation

Network Rail Embraces AI: Oakland's Partnership Marks a New Era in Rail Industry Innovation

Oakland, a leading Microsoft Data and AI Solutions Partner, are collaborating with Network Rail to address the challenges of knowledge management within the rail industry.  Leveraging the power of AI, Oakland has developed a solution to revolutionise how Network Rail harnesses its wealth of information and insights.

Network Rail has just started their new financial period (CP7) – committing an investment of £44 billion in the UK railway infrastructure throughout 2024 to 2029. This significant investment aims to achieve ambitious goals, including a 20% reduction in delays, a 30% increase in capacity, and a 70% decrease in carbon emissions.*
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