Analytics and Insights

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.

Yorkshire Water Bio-Waste Modelling

A core component of water management is the treatment of wastewater and its by-products, colloquially known as sludge. To do this effectively, the Yorkshire Water wastewater team required a bio-waste water solution that could distil a complex network of sites and production data into a minimum cost treatment schedule, allowing them to plan the sludge management process more efficiently.

Alongside this, the end-users wanted a solution that they could ‘tweak’ and re-run, either to incorporate recent site changes/impacts or plan for potential operational scenarios. And at the same time, Yorkshire Water wanted to achieve an outcome with minimal OPEX expenditure.

Executing a Data Strategy for Yorkshire Water

Yorkshire Water faces similar pressures and demands as many other utilities, and has long realised that data is a core asset in helping them to deliver smarter network and customer operations.

This need to utilise their data assets to help exploit and capitalise their physical assets led them to undertake a complex, multiyear data transformation. This case study explains the vital delivery role provided by The Oakland Group in executing a data strategy across a broad set of areas within the data transformation initiative.