Data transformation

Drive military advantage by using data as a strategic asset

In today’s complex, challenging and increasingly unstable geo-political environments, data exploitation is key for defence organisations in delivering information that enables successful planning, operations and strategy to ultimately drive military advantage and organisational efficiency.

Our powerful blend of technical expertise, domain and process understanding, coupled with our trusted partner eco-system - combining best-in-class technology platforms with disruptive start-ups – helps you to unlock the real value of data, accelerating data transformation, reducing costs and optimising change.

We enable defence agency-trusted data to flow securely, coherently and rapidly across the armed forces, related organisations, defence head office and ultimately the business front line, putting it at the fingertips of decision makers at every level, whether forward or at home locations.

Our strength lies in delivering improved business services as experts in data transformation. We understand what data is needed, and where, to improve decision making, how it needs to flow and be aggregated. We do this through improving systems architectures, connectivity, user interfaces and underpinning technologies and processes to realise improvements that are both, cost-effective and transformative.

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Ensuring you can draw insight from your data

Data volume has multiplied exponentially in recent years - not only structured data from operational systems such as procurement or people and skills, but also the vast amounts of data from external and unstructured sources such as the growing arsenal of sensor enabled equipment.

By developing durable and flexible data models, we ensure the quality and accessibility of data to defence organisations, enabling a complete view of military and business operations, overall effectiveness and efficiency so you’re ready to meet current and future information challenges.

What you can expect from our data transformation services:

Secure data

Connected by end-to-end integrated processes

Cognitive workflows

Using analytics and AI to bring insight and intelligence

Secure data sharing

Including common application sets where possible

Collaborative working

Aligned to delivering end-to-end processes

Insight where it’s needed

A suite of digital solutions and data delivered to meet front line user needs

Examples of the expertise within our team:

Solution consultants and architects
Data visualisation consultants
AI and automation consultants

Business analyst
Planning analysts
Agile software developers

Data engineers
Data scientists
Support consultants.

Case studies – read about our defence and security work

Improving the availability and quality of complex military training data

We’re leading a programme of work enabling a complex military training enterprise to transform its approach to the valuable data across the organisation.

With no centralised data repository, key data was collected manually across different establishments and using different software so it was hard to draw value from it.

Ensuring robust governance and adhering to specific MOD data rules and restrictions, we brought all structured and unstructured data into a central data warehouse and standardised it. We then developed a system that transformed raw data into computer-usable language to be combined with other data into a centralised, standardised platform. We visualised the data in an accessible and impactful way, with our team of data scientists and business intelligence specialists creating bespoke reports and dashboards to ensure our customer end-users could make use of it.

The customer now has standardised and centralised data even when collated from multiple establishments, enabling them to ensure better-informed decisions.

Police Scotland is the second largest police force in the UK and covers the largest geographic territory. The merger of the eight Scottish police forces to create a single force meant a huge amount of data and various technologies which the Force wanted to unify as part of an ambitious digital transformation, eliminating any data silos.

The Force is able to make the connections that drive better decision-making, while decommissioning expensive legacy applications and complying with data retention governance, no longer bound by the limitations of its old systems.

Enabling Police Scotland to make data connections to drive better decision-making

This meant migrating critical, complex and often poor data from some 41 different legacy systems - to a new, core operational solution. In collaboration with Police Scotland, we developed a flexible, repeatable migration strategy demonstrating this with one of the legacy systems. In creating the data migration service we utilised advanced Extract, Transform & Load methods with our partner Microsoft, alongside the skills and knowledge of our subject matter experts. Throughout the programme we surfaced data quality issues to ensure alignment to future armed forces and regulatory data standards, and the associated migration requirements within each legacy dataset.

This was no normal data migration programme. Painstaking alignment of legacy processes with new business processes allowed a streamlined transition for users on migration day, including a significant uplift in the quality of legacy data, a fundamental part of the Force’s data transformation journey.

By bringing operational and organisational data together from across 8 legacy regions, over 40 legacy systems and to the fingertips of more than 25,000 operational police officer and staff, Police Scotland is able to better fight crime at a national level, as well as at a local level. The Force is able to make the connections that drive better decision-making, while decommissioning expensive legacy applications and complying with data retention governance, no longer bound by the limitations of its old systems.