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AI & Data

Data Engineering and Governance

One governed place for your data, with pipelines that keep it current and access rules that hold.

Why It Matters

Most institutions keep data in silos: ERP tables, core systems, spreadsheets and documents that nobody has joined up. Reports arrive late, numbers disagree, and every new project copies data again.

AI makes the gap more expensive. Models and agents need current data, documents and clear access rules, delivered fast enough to act on. A fragile platform underneath puts every answer at risk. The work fails in three places: a target designed before the questions are known, quality checks added after launch, and a migration without reconciliation.

What We Do

  • Batch and event pipelines move data between systems on a schedule or as it happens, with owners and quality checks.

  • A warehouse or data lake that holds one trusted copy for reporting and AI, sized to your volumes and query patterns.

  • Vector, graph and text stores that give search and models the data they need, with access rules applied.

  • Databases that are patched, backed up and tested for recovery, with the runbooks your team needs.

  • One version of each customer, supplier and product record, with its source, owner and history.

  • Access, masking, retention and deletion rules that follow the data into every copy, including the ones models read.

What Changes for You

  1. Events arrive as they happen, so reports and services use the current record rather than last night's copy.

  2. Analytics, reporting and AI read from one governed platform with shared definitions and owners.

  3. Backups and failover are proven on a schedule, so a recovery is a known step and not a hope.

How the Work Runs

The platform is built in slices, each with a named owner and a check that proves it. Your architects approve the design before the first source is connected.

  1. Map the Sources

    We review your systems, volumes, reports and current pain. You name the questions and models the platform must serve first, and the data owners we may contact.

  2. Design the Target

    We design the data platform, the streaming layer, the data model and the recovery targets. Your architects approve the decisions and the boundaries between teams.

  3. Build in Slices

    We bring in one domain at a time with quality checks and lineage. Your data owners confirm the definitions and sign off each slice before it goes live.

  4. Set the Rules

    We define access, masking, retention and deletion for every dataset, and record where each copy lives. Your risk and legal teams approve the rules before data is shared.

  5. Migrate and Reconcile

    We rehearse each migration on a copy and reconcile counts and totals. You approve the switch window and the rollback plan before anything old is turned off.

  6. Run and Hand Over

    We monitor pipelines, prove failover and restores, and write the runbooks. Your team runs the platform, or we do under an agreement you set.

Platforms and Technologies

The platform is built from tools your team can hire for and operate. Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services, SAP and Oracle are the platforms we connect to. Snowflake and Databricks are managed data platforms, and BigQuery and Amazon Redshift are cloud warehouses. Apache Kafka carries events, Apache Spark handles large batch work, and Apache Airflow schedules jobs. dbt builds tested transformations. SQL is the query language your analysts already use, pgvector stores the numeric patterns that search and models compare, and Elasticsearch indexes text for search.

Languages
  • SQL
Data and analytics
  • Apache Kafka
  • Snowflake
  • Databricks
  • Apache Spark
  • Apache Airflow
  • dbt
  • BigQuery
  • Amazon Redshift
Databases
  • pgvector
  • Elasticsearch
Cloud
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Google Cloud
Methods We Use
  • Scheduled and change-only pipelines
  • Event streaming
  • Data rules and history
  • One record per customer and product
  • Hiding personal data and retention rules
  • Quality checks and reconciliation

Naming a product does not mean a partnership with its vendor.

Questions

What buyers ask before they rebuild the platform under their data.

Where does data work start?

Usually with a review of the sources, the questions and the current reports. You get a written target, a costed sequence and the first slice to build. If the need is already clear, we start with the design of that slice.

Which platform should we choose?

It depends on your data, skills, where the data must stay and how you query it. We compare the managed platforms and an open data platform against your workloads, then recommend the simplest one that fits.

How do you make sure the numbers are right?

Every pipeline checks volumes, keys, totals and freshness, and a failure stops bad data from reaching reports. We reconcile key figures with your source systems and their owners.

How do you migrate without stopping the business?

We rehearse on a protected copy and reconcile counts and checksums between source and target. Systems that cannot stop run in parallel, and the switch happens in a short window with a tested rollback.

What drives the cost?

The number and size of the sources, how current the data must be and how long it is kept. Streaming and frequent refreshes cost more than daily loads, so we agree where fresh data changes a decision.

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