Business Data Partners (Talan company)
Data Management, Analytics and Visualisation Services
Business Data Partners (a Talan Company) delivers strategic transformation with Cloud support services encompassing Data Architecture, Data Management, BI, Data Analytics, Data Governance, Data Strategy, Data Science and AI. Our core business focuses on the functional (PM, BA, Testing, Strategy and Governance) and technical (data architects, scientists, engineers, analysts, developers).
Features
- Strategy advisory: assessment, validation, and review of strategy.
- Information and Data Governance and compliance: policy, framework and delivery
- Project Management: Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, Lean methodologies.
- Business Analysis: Requirements gathering, stakeholder engagement, documentation, data mapping.
- Architecture: design and development of enterprise-grade platforms, warehousing, data lakes.
- Data Management: ETL, quality, modeling, MDM, security.
- Data Insights: BI, reporting, visualization, dashboard, research, and policy.
- Innovation: predictive analytics, ML, AI, robotics, automation.
- Testing processes: Unit testing, UAT, Regression.
- Staff upskilling: knowledge transfer, workshops, documentation, handover
Benefits
- Strategy optimization and alignment.
- Data security and regulatory compliance
- Experienced PM enhances project efficiency and adaptability.
- Clear project requirements and stakeholder engagement
- Scalable platform design for organizational growth.
- Data integrity, security, and efficiency.
- Data Insights enables informed decision-making
- Innovation drives efficiency and competitiveness through technology.
- Testing processes ensures solution reliability and quality assurance.
- Staff upskilling enhances team competence and productivity.
Pricing
£350 to £1,200 a unit a day
- Education pricing available
Service documents
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Framework
G-Cloud 14
Service ID
6 6 2 4 0 1 8 2 0 9 9 9 3 3 1
Contact
Business Data Partners (Talan company)
Kirsty Lappin
Telephone: 07701385829
Email: kirsty.lappin@talan.com
Planning
- Planning service
- Yes
- How the planning service works
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Consultation:
We initiate our process by understanding the client’s strategic objectives.
Through collaborative engagement, we define use case, project parameters and scope.
Planning approach:
- Engagement with relevant stakeholders on drivers and strategic objectives.
- Identification of dependencies, assumptions, limitations, constraints and risks (resource, technical, budgetary, security and compliance).
- Gathering data to validate assumptions, mitigate risks, and make informed decisions.
- Assessing resource (human, commercial and technological).
- Evaluation of existing estate, resource, architecture, regulatory requirements
- Evaluation of preferred solution (compatibility, scalability, performance etc)
- Engagement with end-users and all relevant stakeholders on priorities, concerns and alignment with strategic goals
- Continuous monitoring and adaptation throughout the project, tracking KPIs and updating plan as needed.
- Creation of a documented project delivery plan outlining milestones and deliverables, risk management and quality assurance plans, and handover.
Our support covers the full end-to-end lifecycle from Discovery, Alpha, Beta to Live.
Our rigorous due-diligence process ensures that we uncover precise needs and alignment with strategy.
Working together closely at every stage we ensure the buyer is comfortable and confident of benefitting from our service and delivery partnership ensuring post sales support and knowledge transfer throughout the project. - Planning service works with specific services
- No
Training
- Training service provided
- No
Setup and migration
- Setup or migration service available
- Yes
- How the setup or migration service works
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Business Data Partners (a Talan Company) have direct experience in Public Sector / Local Authority migration projects. We have experience of managing and migrating data across platforms whether it be system upgrades, application migrations, system swaps or platform separations; manual or automatic; on-prem to cloud, hybrid to cloud, or cloud to cloud; with capabilities in AWS, Microsoft Azure and GCP. The current trends we see are buyers moving from legacy on-premise systems into cloud-based, big data platforms.
We offer comprehensive help at every stage of the migration journey, from assessing the data, applications and security, to designing and piloting migration use cases, before testing and handover. - Setup or migration service is for specific cloud services
- No
Quality assurance and performance testing
- Quality assurance and performance testing service
- Yes
- How the quality assurance and performance testing works
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With a dedicated Testing and QA practice with industry accredited consultants, we don’t view testing/QA as merely a measure of the quality of the products released; we embed quality through the delivery process. This is achieved by;
• Requirements Validation – testing requirements/use cases from definition to ensure they are designed to succeed
• Incorporating regular reviews, e.g. developer peer reviews, walkthrough of key documents etc.
• Independent testing through various test levels from Unit through to Acceptance (User and Operational)
• Agile test delivery so we are nimble and responsive to change
• Providing appropriate levels of governance and audit to demonstrate what has been done, the results achieved, and to inform stakeholders about the release of products to live
• Working with clients to tailor testing to maximise value and deliver a ‘fit for purpose’ product.
To assure performance of the system under test, we adopt the following approach:
• Analyse the system under test
• Baseline performance metrics
• Define usage profile/characterisation
• Scale performance to verify system behaviour, e.g. a typical day, a peak day, overload beyond peak day, soak test over a period etc.
• Measure results and refine to adhere with requirements.
Security testing
- Security services
- Yes
- Security services type
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- Security strategy
- Security risk management
- Security design
- Cyber security consultancy
- Security testing
- Security incident management
- Security audit services
- Certified security testers
- Yes
- Security testing certifications
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- CHECK
- CREST
Ongoing support
- Ongoing support service
- No
Service scope
- Service constraints
- No known constraints.
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- No
- Phone support
- Yes
- Phone support availability
- 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
- Web chat support
- No
- Support levels
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We can provide both on-site or remote support across a variety of different sized and scale of projects and we would work with our client to provide the right level of support for each project.
Depending on the scale of the project we would assign a dedicated support team onsite or remote including a technical account manager. The support team are usually involved from the start of a project and include design and delivery workshops to be fully aware of the buyers needs and expectations and are then on-hand for on-going support following implementation.
We currently support many Cloud Platforms including Azure and AWS and Big Data platforms including Hadoop (Hortonworks) and Datastax Enterprise.
For rates for support levels, these would be discussed at the time with the client and would follow the rate card as submitted.
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Not a reseller
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Conforms to BS7858:2019
- Government security clearance
- Up to Security Clearance (SC)
Standards and certifications
- ISO/IEC 27001 certification
- Yes
- Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001
- TUV Rheinland Group
- ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date
- 09-10-2019
- What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
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A.14.1.2 – Securing Application Services on Public Networks.
A.14.1.3 – Protecting Application Services Transactions.
A.14.2.7 – Outsourced Development. - ISO 28000:2007 certification
- No
- CSA STAR certification
- No
- PCI certification
- No
- Cyber essentials
- Yes
- Cyber essentials plus
- No
- Other security certifications
- No
Social Value
- Social Value
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Social Value
- Fighting climate change
- Equal opportunity
- Wellbeing
Fighting climate change
At a global group level, we have a vision and roadmap for our contribution to a more sustainable society. Our sister company Gemserv are a B Corp and are supporting Talan to becoming full B Corps verified across the entire group. This is a roadmap which is underway, and our efforts are being recognised with the recent EcoVadis Gold award, recognising our performance in environment, social, ethics and sustainable purchasing.Equal opportunity
All our staff are paid fairly. Our recent internal pay gap survey (Q1 2023) identified we have parity in pay with women’s salaries surpassing men’s by 3.9%. Salaries are highly competitive within the market, with no employees paid under the living wage base. Our First Steps maternity package offers new mothers 1 paid day off per week for 12 months.Wellbeing
To support employee wellbeing, all employees are offered access to BUPA Private Healthcare, BUPA Healthy Minds for all, and Smart Health, which includes a 24/7 online GP and other tools to promote physical and mental wellbeing. We encourage a work life balance, and our BDP+ initiative, created 6 years ago, was established to recognise, and reward employees with a 3-month paid sabbatical. Employees are awarded points for agreed objectives and activities which support our core values.
Pricing
- Price
- £350 to £1,200 a unit a day
- Discount for educational organisations
- Yes
Service documents
Request an accessible format
If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format,
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