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Empowering Organisations with Robust, Scalable Data Platforms

At Methods Analytics, we build robust, flexible data platforms that empower organisations to turn raw data into actionable insights. From modern cloud solutions to highly secure air-gapped environments, our platforms are designed to meet your unique challenges while ensuring compliance with strict governance standards. 

Discover how we can transform your data landscape. Contact us today to learn more. 

Our Solutions

  • Data Discovery and Platform Design
  • Data Integration and Ingestion
  • Data Storage and Architecture
  • Data Transformation and Processing
  • Data Analytics and Insight Delivery

The foundation of an effective data platform lies in a deep understanding of your organisation's data landscape and objectives. Methods Analytics’ Discovery and Design process helps organisations clarify their requirements and align their data strategy with unique challenges and goals. 

We Provide: 

  • In-Depth Assessments:  Identify strengths, gaps, and opportunities in your data infrastructure, governance and workflows through in-depth evaluations and collaborative workshops with stakeholders.

  • Tailored Architecture and PoC Development: Design bespoke, scalable data platform blueprints and validate solutions through small-scale Proof-of-Concept implementations.

  • Strategic Alignment and Clarity: Ensure your platform aligns with business priorities, scales with your organisation, and supports informed decisions on technologies like cloud, open-source tools, and AI/ML.

  • Actionable Roadmap for Success: Navigate the complexity of technology choices with a clear, strategic plan to maximise the value of your data platform from day one 

Organisations often struggle with fragmented data spread across multiple systems and formats. At Methods Analytics, our Data Integration and Ingestion solutions create unified, consistent data ecosystems that support reliable decision-making and advanced analytics. 

We Provide: 

  • Efficient Data Ingestion and Integration: Seamlessly unify data from legacy systems, cloud platforms, and on-premises infrastructure into a unified architecture, with real-time and batch pipelines tailored to your business needs.

  • Diverse Data Sources: Handle structured, unstructured, and semi-structured data from APIs, databases, IoT devices, and more, for timely, comprehensive insights that support analytics and AI/ML initiatives. 

  • Reliable Workflows: Streamline data ingestion processes to minimise manual intervention, ensuring consistent data quality and accuracy.

  • Future-Ready Data Ecosystem: Build a scalable foundation to improve accessibility, maintain consistency, and drive innovation across your organisation.

A robust storage and architecture strategy is the backbone of any successful data platform. At Methods Analytics, we provide Data Storage and Architecture solutions that securely and efficiently manage both structured and unstructured data, enabling seamless access and scalability. 

We Provide:

  • Data Lakes and Warehouses: Build scalable environments to store and manage vast amounts of data in formats optimised for analytics and reporting, combining the best of data lakes and warehouse to support diverse use cases from BI to AI/ML. 

  • Secure and Flexible Solutions: Create architectures that meet your needs, whether cloud-native, hybrid, or operating in secure environments, that meet governance and compliance requirements while reducing storage costs.

  • Optimised Access: Design storage systems that deliver high-performance querying and fast data retrieval for real-time decision-making. 

  • Enhanced Decision Making: Create a scalable, efficient data ecosystem that empowers innovation and delivers value across analytics and decision-making functions.

Transforming raw data into actionable formats is critical for powering analytics and decision-making. At Methods Analytics, our Data Transformation and Processing solutions enable organisations to optimise data workflows, improve data quality, and prepare datasets for advanced analytics and AI/ML applications. 

We Provide:

  • Automated Data Transformation: Design ETL/ELT pipelines and workflows to efficiently extract, transform, and load data, enabling accurate, analytics-ready datasets. 

  • Advanced Frameworks:  Leverage advanced platforms like Databricks, Apache Spark, Microsoft Fabric, and dbt to standardise, transform, and document data pipelines seamlessly and handle real-time and batch processing, ensuring performance and adaptability for growing data volumes. 

  • Python Tooling: Utilise Python’s extensive ecosystem, including libraries such as Polars, Pandas, Great Expectations, Dask, and NumPy, to enable high-performance data manipulation, standardise data models, ensure scalable workflows, improve collaboration and automated quality checks. 

  • Data Quality and Enrichment:  Ensure clean, reliable data by automating validation, deduplication, and enrichment processes BI dashboards, AI/ML models, and predictive analytics, to meet your analytical needs.

Turning data into actionable insights is essential for making informed decisions and driving organisational success. At Methods Analytics, our Data Analytics and Insights Delivery solutions ensure your teams can access the information they need, when they need it, through intuitive dashboards, robust analytics, and seamless integrations with other systems. 

We Provide: 

  • Real-Time Dashboards: Deliver up-to-date insights and user-friendly reports to decision-makers through tools like Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, and custom-built dashboards tailored to your needs. 

  • Custom Visualisation and Seamless Integration: Design bespoke analytics and visualisation tools, and connect your analytics environment to AI/ML systems, external platforms, and workflows for actionable insights to empower teams with improved decision-making and foster collaboration across the organisation

  • Scalable Analytics Solutions: Deliver flexible, integrated analytics that grow with your organisation, maximising the value of your existing tools and investments.

Our Solutions

Data Discovery and Platform Design

Data Integration and Ingestion

Data Storage and Architecture

Data Transformation and Processing

Data Analytics and Insight Delivery

Tools of specialty

Azure data services

Azure Data Services provides a set of fully managed relational, NoSQL and in-memory databases. These services automate tasks like configuring and managing high availability, disaster recovery, backups and data replication across regions. This automation saves you time and money, allowing you to focus on extracting value from your data rather than managing the infrastructure.

Azure Data Factory

Azure Data Factory is a fully managed, serverless data integration service. It allows us to integrate all of your data, regardless of where it resides. With Azure Data Factory, we can create, schedule and manage data pipelines, transforming your data from disparate sources into meaningful insights.

AWS-powered data lakes

AWS provides robust support for data lakes. AWS-powered data lakes, supported by the unmatched availability of Amazon S3 and Redshift, can handle the scale, agility and flexibility required to combine different data and analytics approaches. This allows us to build and store your data lakes on AWS, enabling you to gain deeper insights than with traditional data silos and data warehouses.

AWS Redshift

AWS Redshift is a fast, fully managed, petabyte-scale data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyse all your data using your existing business intelligence tools. It delivers fast query performance by using columnar storage technology and parallel query execution. With Redshift, we can accelerate your time to insights with fast, easy and secure cloud data warehousing at scale.

Our approach

We believe that a successful data platform is built on a deep understanding of your unique needs and context. Our approach is designed around four key steps - Discover, Design, Develop and Migrate - to ensure that we deliver a data platform that is secure, efficient and tailored to your specific requirements.

  1. Discover: Our process begins by understanding your organisation, data, and goals. We view your data platform as the brain of your business, designed to learn, adapt, and support smarter decisions. Our expert team collaborates with your data and information asset owners to document systems, catalogue entities, and map data flows. Simultaneously, our user researchers engage with your users,  teams and executives to uncover use cases, helping shape and prioritise your development roadmap.
  2. Design: We believe that the secrets of a successful data platform design are reducing complexity, utilising existing best-practice and continuously validating that we are meeting a user need.By simplifying processes, starting with design, we create clear, repeatable tasks that are easy to understand, track, and implement—ensuring a smooth transition from concept to build.
  3. Develop: Whether you're new to the cloud, starting with Agile, or have mature DevOps teams, we’ll align with your processes and build at your pace.

    Designed for an AI-ready future, your platform will feature scalable, best-of-breed data capabilities with automated maintenance. Flexible interfaces ensure seamless integration of new data sources as they emerge

  4. Migrate: To begin using your new data platform, we offer a comprehensive migration service to integrate your data, users, and systems seamlessly. Our team migrates historic data, models it for maximum value, and ensures full compliance with your policies. We onboard users, collaborate with suppliers, and rationalise legacy systems to start delivering savings. By working closely with your team, we tailor your platform to your unique needs, ensuring it is efficient, secure, and ready to deliver value from day one.

Case Studies

Positioning Data at the heart of Innovation - Swindon Borough Council (SBC)

The council employs over 2000 staff who work to prioritise improving infrastructure and housing to support a growing, low-carbon economy; offer education opportunities that lead to the right skills and the right jobs in the right places; ensure clean and safe streets; improve public spaces and local culture; and helps people to help themselves, while always protecting the most vulnerable children and adult. As part of its pledge to compete at the forefront of digital innovation with a commitment to using
technology for positive change, the council wanted to improve organisational data management enabling it to more effectively use its data, lower costs and support new services.

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Disposal Management - Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S)

If an item becomes obsolete, no longer in use or isn’t working, it’s either disposed of or sent to storage. Across DE&S, there was no set process to monitor and manage the disposal risk of these items. It was only being done at team level, tracked over non-interfaced electronic systems, local spreadsheets and paper-based registers.

Systems could not be linked. Confidence in the disposal process could not be recorded or understood.

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