Data that works

For many businesses, data remains their greatest untapped asset. It’s already there, and it can be the fuel for informing and transforming your business: Letting you see deeper, plan further, act faster and hit harder.

Do more with your data:

Boost efficiency by reducing the risk of errors and freeing staff from the data drudgery of manual tasks
Enable access to get the right data to the right people at the right time, unlocking new uses and insights
Simplify compliance, with readily available data in the correct form for regulators and reports
Enhance insights and analysis to get closer to customers, improve services, develop new solutions, compete and win.

S&W’s data consulting services bring expertise and experience to turn your data into intelligence that drives insights, innovations and opportunities. We capture, clean, process, analyse, visualise and exploit data to fully realise its value for your business.

Data analytics: deluges and droughts

Data can be overwhelming. For businesses it is both a currency for competing in the digital age and compulsory to satisfy the demands of regulators, customers and supply chains. Whether it’s customer records or transaction level data for VAT reporting, data volumes can quickly overwhelm organisations. When it’s corrupt, inconsistent or inaccessible in siloes, it leaves them underpowered, can increase costs and mean opportunities are missed.

Large data sets and diverse sources combined with poor data management stop businesses from benefiting from their data:

Inefficient and manual processes make data a chore instead of an asset, adding to workloads and raising the risk of errors
Unreliable and inconsistent data causes mistakes and limits its utility for analysis or other activities to deliver business objectives
Siloed data sources reduce access, frustrating efforts and opportunities to use data profitably across the organisation
Unavailable, inaccurate or improperly formatted data increases regulatory risks and adds to compliance costs

As data volumes grow, so do the risks, costs and complexity. But with the right strategies, technologies and processes, your data can continually unlock new opportunities, insights and rewards.

S&W’s Data services team

Our data consulting services professionals partner with businesses to deliver consistently excellent data quality, robust management, penetrative insights and innovative outputs that drive value. We work to bring your data under control and then bring it to life.

We support organisations at source, helping efficiently capture and cleanse data; with outcomes, through analysis and visualisation tools that turn information into intelligence; and as intermediaries who bridge the gap between data owners and end users across finance, HR, sales and other functions, working to ensure each understands the other’s needs.

Inhouse expertise, integrated data services, delivered in person

Our team will work with you and your data to make it work for your business, harnessing it to reduce risks, deliver value and drive innovation. Draw on their technical expertise and experience working across your sector and other industries for the latest best practice, cross-sector benchmarking, new thinking and alternative approaches.

We can supplement, support or stand in for inhouse resources with services that consistently reflect our guiding principles:

Holistic support from an integrated Digital team for data that’s cyber secure by design and aligned with and designed for your technology tools and applications
Personal and professional with our experienced partners at the heart of our service delivery, on-hand, always in touch and on the ground with you
Onshore, in-person delivery, always ready to meet, discuss and troubleshoot to provide support when you need it from the people responsible
Independent, unbiased, whole of market reviews and advice when selecting providers for data storage, outsourcing and other services

Explore our data consulting services

Data strategy and governance

A suitable data governance framework is critical for protecting data subjects’ privacy, ensuring security and complying with GDPR and other regulations. The proper framework and strategy also play an essential role in preventing data issues down the line, ensuring quality by design. We help organisations define and refine their data strategies and governance, bringing clarity to their data uses, intended outcomes and the controls and processes necessary to achieve these within all relevant regulatory constraints.
Data integration, management and quality

Our data management services break down silos, clean your data and make it fit for purpose. We bring technical expertise and a commitment to work closely with your business to fully understand where data is held, how it’s used and what you need. We’ll ensure you capture relevant data from across organisations and outside, remove duplicates, eliminate errors, enforce consistency and put data into the right format, ready for use: A single version of the truth to power robust, reliable insights and other applications.
Data analytics, business intelligence and visualisation

Get more from your data with analytics, intelligence and visualisation support. We interrogate, examine and extract intelligence from internal and external data to transform it into insights, and insights into business information. Using the best available tools, we identify the correlations that you can turn to commercial advantage. We also work with businesses to deliver visualisation tools to explain and explore findings for users across the organisation – because we know that sometimes seeing is believing.
Data as a service (DaaS)

DaaS solutions enable businesses to access, analyse and use data without in-house data infrastructure or expertise. Leveraging advanced analytics and real-time insights, DaaS empowers companies to make informed decisions, drive innovation, and enhance operational efficiency. Hosting services in our own environment rather than on your infrastructure, we offer tailored data solutions that unlock value, optimise performance, and foster growth with minimal impact on your internal resources.
Generative AI, machine learning and data science services

Artificial intelligence, and particularly machine learning, is redefining the possibilities for analytics. It’s enabling organisations to analyse larger data sets, identify new and more complex correlations, unlock deeper insights and predict and forge new futures. S&W’s data science experts will help you define and execute an AI strategy for your data. We’ll identify the high impact opportunities among the hype, manage the risks and safely implement and help you use AI and machine learning solutions tailored to your business goals.