The Analytics Digital Accelerator (ADA) provides the cloud technology to rapidly stand up a high-volume data analytics and visualisation platform, together with the digital tools and ways of working to deliver and embed operational insights
The Challenge
How do you ensure your organisation is making the right data driven decisions? Common challenges:
Current delivery teams can only deliver work for either the business or technical teams and they are unable to understand the wider business / technical context
Development teams are unable to produce what is required by the business / business teams are unable to understand the technical limitations of requests
Poorly defined user stories result in dashboards that do not meet the business’s needs, resulting in poor uptake and alternative reports being produced
Teams are operating in siloes, producing similar reports using slightly different calculations, causing confusion, duplication of work and time & money being wasted
The requirements for simulation are unclear, data is not suitable for use, data sharing is difficult, simulation development is difficult and time consuming
Reporting platform is slow, with poor user experience, poor incident management, with a lack of automated processes leading to “turning the handle” activities
Data is often shared over unsecured email at unscheduled times, with little control over who can see which pieces of information, increasing risk to the business
Benefits of ADA
ADA has been designed to streamline, automate, quality assure and secure all parts of the analytics processes, so that you can get the insights you need, when you need themADA has been designed to streamline, automate, quality assure and secure all parts of the analytics processes, so that you can get the insights you need, when you need them
We train our people to be multi-disciplinary, able to deliver work for and communicate with, both business and technical teams, using their cross-industry experience
We have developed an online application, making raising requests (MI / access requests, privacy approvals, incident reporting) faster and easier, with an automatic audit trail
We work with teams across the business to develop a rationalised catalogue, using kite-marked analytics to ensure our reporting platform provides the single source of truth
Our reporting platform is fully automated, with dashboard performance monitored, applications available cross-device, with different support models available to match business needs
The Cloud Data Platform is the rapidly deployable cloud infrastructure (deployable on AWS, Azure and GCP) with components to handle activities from data ingestion (from various data source types) and processing through to data optimisation and machine learning
Simulation
Our in-house simulation capability provides the people, processes and tools required to deliver high-quality simulations and digital twins. ADA integrates with that capability allowing for rapid simulation development and deployment
Visualisation Platform
The Visualisation Platform allows us to generate the consolidated, automated and trusted catalogue of interactive dashboards. With deployments of ADA, we deploy our tested platform monitoring dashboards to ensure reports are loading and performing at their best
Digital Tools
A selected combination of off-the-shelf and in-house Digital Tools provides seamless integration between all analytics delivery stages. This allows our teams to work more efficiently with greater accuracy, enabling them to manage demand better and turn around analytics faster
Ways of Working
Our Ways of Working encompass our organisational structure, operating model and tried-and-tested frameworks to ensure that our developer teams work effectively together and with our clients
Security
ADA deployments are protected by our built-in security controls that are designed to keep your data safe, including Microsoft authentication to integrate report access with your company’s login details and privacy controls to ensure only the right people in your organisation are viewing the data they need to
