Simplyhealth adopts data science for greater customer understanding

The health insurer has begun to use data science to improve customer retention following an Adatis-led implementation of a Microsoft Azure data stack and data science skills development programme.

“What we are able to prove with the data is that those customers that engage with the product are much stickier, and that is what our marketing department needed, so they can take proactive action.”
Andrew Bradley
Head of Data and Analytics at Simplyhealth

Milton Keynes University Hospital

NHS trust for UK’s fastest growing town enhances data capabilities with Adatis

Milton Keynes University Hospital has implemented Microsoft Azure data and analytics tools in partnership with Adatis. The data modernisation project has replaced a set of ageing data tools that were about to reach the end of life. In addition, Milton Keynes University Hospital can now support mobile data access and prepare the NHS trust for next-generation data technologies the organisation plans to adopt.

Adatis helps Heathrow Airport with data transformation to aid recovery in a post pandemic world

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Heathrow Airport was the world’s second busiest airport by international passenger numbers and the busiest airport in Europe. With the pandemic leading to global lockdowns and grounding many passenger flights, Heathrow, like most organisations, had to quickly chart a new course – with data playing an important role in the way the airport responded and operated in a post-pandemic economy.

Case Study – Away Resorts harness data to improve holidays and homes

“We now have a really rich and detailed analysis of our business, which is helping in areas like revenue and marketing.” Mohammed Muddasar, Head of Commercial Analytics, Away Resorts

Away Resorts, an operator of UK resorts and seller of park homes, is able to manage its inventory more effectively following the implementation of a Microsoft data analytics platform. Today, Away Resorts has greater utilisation of accommodation and has improved the services it offers to holiday makers and owners.

King’s College London and Adatis explore how Machine Learning can help to predict Student Withdrawals

An innovative pilot project confirms the transformational impact of an Azure-based data lake and machine learning on predicting potential student course withdrawals.

‘The results of the different models from the proof of concept were well beyond our expectations. They unambiguously affirmed the potential of this solution and very quickly we moved into thinking about how we could bring it into full production and leverage the value from the insights the model provided.’
Richard Salter, Director of Analytics – King’s College London

A Central Government Department gets full visibility of contracts, spend and risk

With no visibility of contract data and contracts fragmented across different departments, there was no easy way for this Central Government Department to match expenditure to contracts or to monitor supplier performance and risk. They knew they were missing opportunities to forecast and manage spending to deliver better value to the taxpayer.

Adatis worked to understand their objectives such as visibility of all contracts with a view to driving cost savings, reducing supplier risk and ensuring compliance with sourcing policy and implemented a Modern Cloud Data Warehouse with powerful self-service data visualisation using Power BI.

King’s College London embraces predictive analytics with new pan-university data platform

Siloed data meant King’s was unable to get a clear picture of its operations for strategic planning. As part of a wider digital transformation, it has worked with Adatis to implement a pan-university data lake and analytics platform in Azure – creating a sustainable foundation for predictive analytics and evidence-based decision-making

Insurance broker gains powerful sales and marketing insights with Power BI-based self service reporting from Adatis

A third-party insurance broker couldn’t get the granular insight it needed to target sales and marketing campaigns effectively. They needed detailed geospatial and demographic insights to know where to target campaigns. Adatis showed that Power BI was capable of delivering the required insights.

The company can now get access to powerful, self-service data visualisation and reporting.

An iconic online fashion retailer boosts retail analytics capability with new tools for Azure SQL Data Warehouse

This online fashion retailer had been operating an on-premises data warehouse, but as the company has grown so has the amount of data it generates and the on-prem data warehouse was reaching its limits for data storage and for speed of executing queries. A strategic move to Azure was already underway and Adatis worked with the retailer to provide tools for Azure SQL Data Warehouse that enable the retailer’s developers to get datasets ready for analysis in a matter of days.

A global financial organisation set to become data-driven insurer with a modern data platform from Adatis

Siloed data and legacy systems mean fragmented data and manual effort.  A modern data platform will enable this insurance provider to identify new business opportunities, simplify reporting and compliance, and integrate acquisitions more easily.

A global entertainment group creates an integration layer for Lob systems utilising Microsoft’s Data Platform

A large entertainment group were rolling out a new global financial operating model. With help from Adatis, the group now have the ability to accurately report on purchasing and revenue, utilising data fed in form over 20 source systems, enabling them to improve their customer experience.

Providing a water company with a rapid flow of insights for improved decision making

One of the largest water providers in England and Wales needed to move a way from a dependency on structured data to develop a way of understanding and analysing unstructured data.  The water company lacked the infrastructure to implement models that could be designed to solve key business problems.

Adatis assisted by building a Modern Data Warehouse allowing them to develop the confidence that the components of the Microsoft Azure Data Warehouse stack, when delivered using an agile methodology, were the correct choice.  

A large Restaurant Group delivers daily insights by 7am with Adatis Managed Services

After hiring third-party developers to build a new platform to handle data analytics for it’s 350 locations across the UK, this restaurant group found that to deliver the insights the business needed to make operational decisions at the right time they would have likely needed to hire three full time data analytics specialists, on flexible schedules to manage and support the platform.

Adatis Managed Services used their three-month, three-step service handover plan to take on the platform. Adatis have also made a significant number of improvements to the platform including new reporting capabilities with Power BI and integration with CRM.