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Data

To make informed decisions, understand your customer needs and improve your operations, you must have good data. Data is also the fuel powering the growth in artificial intelligence (AI).

Data is the backbone of actionable insights and robust AI. So, it is critical that you manage your data well, with strong policies in place. Poor quality data can lead to poor business decisions. And poor security and governance can result in mishandling and unwanted leakage of sensitive data.

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Our technology consultants will work with you to release the value of your data. We'll empower your people with analytics that provide meaningful insights. Business intelligence will enable you to make informed decisions, at the same time as maintaining regulatory and security compliance.

Opencast offers expert consultancy services in architecture, engineering and performance analysis. We will embed security and sustainability principles throughout the journey. And we'll take a user-centred approach to ensure you unlock compelling and timely insights.

Meeting your data delivery challenges

Whether we’re delivering enterprise platforms or individual services, our data consultants will help you to...

Improve data governance

We’ll establish good practice around data management, storage, access and use, and help you enhance your business processes for good data management.

Enhance data quality

We’ll analyse and improve your data, work with stakeholders on data quality, and train your people to deliver quality and standards.

Improve data security and compliance

We'll help you meet data protection standards and regulations. We'll propose solutions that stick to NCSC 'secure by design' principles.

Reduce silos and improve integrations

We'll help you collect data from disparate sources into centralised systems, and design and develop data pipelines.

Migrate and consolidate data platforms

Including by building 'data lake' repositories that allow you to store all your data at scale.

Data – our specialisms

Across Opencast’s data practice, our technology consultants specialise in four core disciplines

Data architecture

Data engineering

Data analysis

Performance analysis

Analytical thinkers with curious mindsets, our data architects will have a vision for how you use your data. They will ensure your data is managed to meet your organisation’s needs. They'll design data models, enterprise data platforms and build capabilities in business intelligence. And they'll set the standards and principles for data security, data quality and data governance. Our data architects can help you build your enterprise data strategy to help your business take a more data-led approach.

Data architecture

Data engineering

Data analysis

Performance analysis

Data architecture

Data engineering

Data analysis

Performance analysis

Industry standards and tools

Case studies

Where we’ve made it work

Creating the foundations for a better developer experience at the Ministry of Justice

Working alongside the Ministry of Justice, Opencast helped lay the foundations for better developer experience through improved governance, reusable tooling and a scalable developer portal.

Case study

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Improving support for military veterans and their families

The Office for Veterans Affairs (OVA) partnered with Opencast in 2024 to make it easier for veterans and their families to find the right support online. Veterans often faced an overwhelming mix of services from government, armed forces networks, charities and other providers. The project streamlined information into a single, accessible place and explored ways for OVA to connect veterans directly with services. The result was a new Finder tool and support guidance, launched on GOV.UK in September 2024, giving veterans a faster, clearer route to the help they need.