Nicola Thomson

Oakland Celebrates a Year of Exceptional Growth and Strategic Client Partnerships

Leeds-based data company, Oakland, one of the few data consultancies to earn B Corp certification through its commitment to high social and environmental standards, announces significant growth in excess of 25% for its financial year ending 31st March. 

This success highlights Oaklands’ mission to transform and grow businesses by liberating and activating data.

Project Data Analytics

Project data analytics (PDA) has huge potential to assist in the delivery of infrastructure projects bringing £billions of annual savings to the UK. Our new report identifies a host of barriers and enablers to PDA’s effective deployment. Organisations adopting PDA need to take this into account by realising that there is no ‘silver bullet’ for implementation.

To find out more about our groundbreaking research with Project Praxis Group, WMG – University of Warwick, download the report.

A UK Public Service Broadcaster

This UK-based media company needed to gain faster insights to enable decision-making when pulling data across its different media functions, such as understanding viewers, viewers’ engagement, monetisation, marketing, and commissioning.

Many queries relied on lengthy data engineering requests or a convoluted journey to find the right person with the right knowledge to analyse the necessary data. Those queries often resulted in different answers for similar questions due to different approaches and shadow data.

Designing a Data Strategy and Roadmap for RAW Charging

RAW Charging provides electric vehicle charging solutions tailored to meet the specific needs of various locations and sectors across the UK.
RAW stands out for its unique approach, recognising that each location requires a distinct EV solution rather than a ‘one size fits all’ method. Many leading UK companies choose their services for this reason.

The Oakland Group were selected to help the RAW leadership team create a complete vision, strategy and roadmap for how data will transform their business in the coming years.

Driving growth for Elvie with a data platform

RAW stands out for its unique approach, recognising that each location requires a distinct EV solution rather than a ‘one size fits all’ method. Many leading UK companies choose their services for this reason.

The Oakland Group were selected to help the RAW leadership team create a complete vision, strategy and roadmap for how data will transform their business in the coming years.

Building a next-generation Investment Gateway web application for Network Rail

Increasing efficiency, compliance and decision performance through financial digital transformation

This case study charts the successful implementation of the Investment Gateway Application by the Oakland Group in collaboration with the Network Rail Finance team.

The project aimed to transform the Investment Authority process, ensuring consistency, compliance, and efficient decision-making across diverse railway projects.

A Global Telco implementing a ‘self service’ data assurance monitoring platform

When a Global Telco wanted to enhance the data governance and data quality assurance of its financial reporting capability, it was reluctant to buy off-the-shelf software that wouldn’t fit the varied needs of its vision for Data Excellence.

Instead, Oakland devised an innovative assurance solution that helped to transform data operations performance, but more importantly, deliver daily insights that the business can trust and rely on.

Data Governance for Humans (and a little for AIs)

There’s a good chance that data underpins every product, service, or capability in your organisation.

But organisations have been managing data for decades, so why do we need data governance?

At Oakland, we’ve been delivering data governance initiatives to some of the UK’s leading organisations for years.

The primary goal of data governance is to ensure that data assets are managed in a way that aligns with business goals, regulatory requirements, and industry best practices. These extra pressures and demands drive the need to go beyond traditional data management.

Oakland Partners with Data Literacy Academy: Bridging the imagination gap

In today’s data-driven world, businesses are increasingly reliant on their ability to leverage information effectively. This has led to a growing demand for data literacy, not just within data-focused teams, but across all levels of an organisation. And a greater understanding of what data is, how you use your data, and the impact of both…

Master the 5 Stages of Successful Data Projects

With our FREE guide created in partnership with Data Literacy Academy.

Creating a data platform for tech start-up Income Analytics

Income Analytics were keen to leverage its twenty years of planning and development expertise

To create an online platform that would enable real estate professionals, investors, owners, and lenders to make better informed data-driven letting, investment, and lending decisions.

The leadership team selected Oakland to build the platform based on our data strategy, cloud engineering, and process transformation expertise.

Building a Data and Analytics Platform for Acuity Robotics

As experts in remote data capture and robotic infrastructure inspection, the client saw the potential for this method of data collection to gain vital insights into asset conditions while using more advanced analytical techniques.

We were asked to design and build a bespoke, cloud-based data and analytics platform that could collect and collate the data, then serve it securely to customers and data scientists – all while providing data quality assurance.