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Get on top of your data

A data platform is what manages your data. It’s made up of tools for acquisition, storage, organisation, security, accessibility, analysis and consumption – designed to take care of manual data tasks and decisions, so you can concentrate on the bigger picture.

Do you need a data platform?

Your organisation needs data to grow and thrive. That’s why our enterprise scale data platforms are based on your strategy and built to send your pipeline and productivity soaring.

Expert data platform engineering

It doesn’t stop there. Our team will work by your side to make sure your data platform is scalable, and that you’ve got everything you need to expand it for future growth.

How does Oakland build data platforms?
We keep risks low by delivering a series of smaller projects to get things moving, while taking care of larger developments to level up your data flow and quality.

Your Oakland-built data platform will help you:

Max out efficiency and keep costs low, with infrastructure that’s just right

Scale for the future flexibly and accurately – whether it’s in the cloud or on-premises

Make informed decisions about tooling with our honest, solution agnostic advice

Accelerate rapidly and tactically while you put foundational data capabilities in place

Data platform capability assessment

Leave data platform complexity behind

Modern data platform infrastructure puts scalable capacity and costs right at your fingertips, giving you everything you need for strong data governance, efficient automation and high speed and quality.

Knowledge is power

Our Data Platform Capability Assessment uses our tried and tested reference architecture blueprint to review, understand and evaluate your enterprise’s data infrastructure.

Play to your data platform strengths

We’ll help you decide what to keep, what to change and what’s best left behind. From rapid evaluations to technical reviews, we’ll tailor your assessment to get the best insights for you and your business objectives.

Data platform accelerator

Accelerate your data

A powerful data platform is the secret weapon you need to elevate your enterprise strategy. Done right, it’ll blend lots of sources, to develop, organise and curate content for high-quality data and strong, informed decisions.

See results faster

Our end-to-end Data Platform Accelerator uses a proven architecture and capability set to build your platform faster than ever, all with laser focus on driving value for your business.

A data platform built for speed

We make that happen by delivering a vertically integrated ‘slice’, containing everything you need to hit your data platform goals – from source, output, governance and quality to control, storage and conformity.

Data platform engineering as a service

Slow and steady wins the (data) race

Your modern data platform doesn’t have to arrive at breakneck speed. A slower approach can give you the space to focus on improving data culture and literacy, and even keep risks low for your investment strategy.

Engineering your modern data platform

Our Data Platform Engineering-as-a-Service (EaaS) offers everything from data architecture, design and deployment to ingestion pipeline, data transformation, metadata management and reporting and analytics curation.

Making data work for you

Whether you want to extend the capabilities you already have, or start steadily developing a new data platform to supercharge your strategy, EaaS can help you smash your goals without smashing your budget.

The Data Platform Journal

By our very own Jake Watson

This is a friendly, informed place to talk about the people, processes and technology to build Data Platforms, which require many processes, roles and technologies to work together seamlessly to be successful.

We’ll cover articles, podcasts and videos in Data Engineering, Analytics Engineering, DataOps, Cloud Engineering for Data and sprinkle of Data Governance, Data Analytics, Data Science and Data Strategy where it applies to Data Platforms.

We’ll produce a new issue every other Monday/Tuesday with an extra article on How to Build a Data Platform being published every Wednesday/Thursday every 1 to 3 weeks.

Check it out

Platform case studies

Welcome to our Platform and Engineering Case Studies Showcase, where we’re excited to share some of the success stories of how our data platforms have driven innovation and improved business decision making by preparing data for reporting and insights.

A major UK media organisation

A major UK media organisation

Subscriber growing pains The media company had struggled to increase its subscriber base within its digital products group and was losing out on advertising revenue to competing products and formats. This demand for growth and competitive advantage created urgency and an aggressive timeline for the business to develop and deploy new capabilities. Central to the…
Yorkshire Water

Yorkshire Water

Mapping out the Data Strategy Oakland started by helping Yorkshire Water with an early series of data strategy workshops. The goal of these workshops was to review the current business and operational objectives that Yorkshire Water was keen to address, then map these aspirations against possible directions for exploiting their data in the future. Working…
Network Rail

Network Rail

Sweeping change creates an opportunity for improvement Rail projects need to be delivered faster, at less cost and with greater value to the taxpayer than ever before. The government has challenged the rail industry to discover new ways of working to cut the time and cost of delivering critical infrastructure projects. This demand for greater…
Yorkshire Water Bio-Waste Modelling

Yorkshire Water Bio-Waste Modelling

The Outcome
Acuity Robotics

Acuity Robotics

The Outcome
Helping to drive the next stage of growth for Elvie

Helping to drive the next stage of growth for Elvie

“We just thought that Oakland’s presentation was one of the most organised. We liked the comprehensive plans that we saw.” The Goal Elvie asked for Oakland’s help to build a data analytics platform that would extract, store, and prepare data for reporting and insights. Historically, Elvie had struggled to report on various KPIs across the…
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