Over 100+ pages packed with expert insights
Accelerate your journey to valuable business insights, whether you’re building or buying. If you’re planning to build a modern data platform, this guide is your blueprint. It’s designed to help you navigate the critical architecture decisions, trade-offs, and tooling choices that will shape a scalable, secure, and future-ready platform.
You’ll also see why many organisations choose not to build from scratch. Traditional options like out-of-the-box platforms or fully bespoke solutions come with serious compromises: limited flexibility, long lead times, high costs, or technical debt.
So whether you’re designing your platform in-house, or looking for a partner to deliver it faster you’re in the right place.
What’s Inside the Guide?
This guide is packed with practical insights to help you:
• Evaluate architectural approaches across the “Big 3” cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Balance agility with governance, cost with capability
• Understand key decision points across infrastructure, tooling, and team design
• Align platform strategy with business outcomes
• Choose the right level of abstraction and automation for your environment
Whether you’re building from scratch or evolving your current platform, this guide avoids hype and zeroes in on what works based on real-world patterns and tested design decisions.
“As I’ve just started a new CDO role, one of the things I was keen to get hold of was some practical advice on creating a data platform strategy, as it’s not just about technology. I was therefore delighted to come across the data platform guide at Oakland. They have managed to create something which is a must read for anyone thinking about their data platform. It’s clear, concise, insightful and best of all, practical. I highly recommend getting your hands on this!
Lynne Bailey, CDO, Robert Walters
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