Case Studies

AI Use Case Discovery in Higher Education: Identifying Where AI Truly Adds Value

A member of the prestigious Russell Group of world-class, research-intensive universities, our client delivers teaching excellence and equip their graduates to go further, faster. Our Softcat Partnership As a long-term trusted advisor, Softcat was asked for recommendations on a partner who could work closely as a true data partner with this university. Oakland Everything Data…

Turning Data Governance into £85 Million of Opportunity

How we improved data quality and management for a large utilities client to identify solutions with the potential to unlock £85 million in value.

Rebuilding a data platform from the ground up with Microsoft Fabric

Our client is one of the UK’s leading transport organisations. Facing increasing business challenges, it needed to take full control of its data.

Building a Data-Driven Professional Services Firm: A Data Strategy Journey

A leading UK accountancy and advisory firm on an exciting growth journey, expanding both organically and through acquisitions, needed the data capability to scale with it.

Smarter Network Planning with Fibre Data for a Large Telecommunications Organisation

Identifying opportunities to expand existing infrastructure for a large telecoms organisation to deliver a tool that will drive tangible value and generate revenue from their data.

Delivering a Data Transformation for a Leading UK-Based Digital Infrastructure Provider

The meaningful data transformation we delivered for a leading UK-based digital infrastructure provider in just 12 weeks through a Microsoft Azure Data Platform and Maturity Step Change.

AI Product Classification Solution at Scale

How we brought order to complexity and created a scalable, AI-driven foundation for more informed, data-led decision-making for a leading provider of IT solutions and services.

Becoming AI Ready: A Data Strategy and Platform Build for Simplify

Discover Using Oakland’s Data Maturity Framework, we assessed Simplify’s current state and identified key pain points, including: We captured the voice of the business, which revealed a strong desire to return to their position as a digital leader in the market and offer a hyper-personalised customer experience, something they referred to as “psychic conveyancing.” Define…

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.

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.

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.

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.