Your data strategy, insights and market success are our core priorities
DataShapa, founded in 2016 was acquired by Transparity in 2023 to become its new data arm. Alister Jones has been promoted to become the CTO for all of Transparity, and the data practice is in the good hands of Luke Collins.
As it always was, our focus continues to be on data. Whether in the form of strategy, modern data platform or analytics and visualisation.
We establish ourselves as collaborative partners in our projects, ensuring consistent communication and excellent client service. Through our industry experience, we have formulated a unique methodology that serves as the backbone to our processes.
In today’s landscape, where data reigns supreme, mastering the art of managing and leveraging information is indispensable for any organisation striving to maintain a competitive edge.
Transparity’s Data Practice, formed from DataShapa, stands at the forefront of this endeavour, offering bespoke data consulting services meticulously crafted to address the distinctive demands of your enterprise. By harnessing our expertise and state-of-the-art technology, we enable businesses to transform their data into valuable insights, optimise workflows, and realise their strategic objectives with unparalleled precision.
Our data strategy consultancy services are tailored to assist in developing a comprehensive data strategy that meets your specific needs. By concentrating on the five pillars: data, technology, personnel, use-cases, and AI readiness, our consultancy equips you to achieve your business goals and implement a complete modern data platform.
Our data engineering consultancy offers specialists who will design and implement a customised modern data platform tailored to your organisation. This solution will address your immediate challenges and establish a scalable, cloud-native architecture capable of withstanding future disruptions.
Our consulting services transform complex data into accessible and comprehensible interactive dashboards and reports for stakeholders. Through Power BI consulting, we facilitate data-driven decision-making, enabling organisations to optimise efficiency, enhance performance, and achieve their strategic objectives.
“Our mentality was that while we’re young and agile, let’s implement the right infrastructure as early as possible. It was all about finding the right partnership to get this in place. What we have achieved is a really robust and stable data model that gives us the ability to provide retail insights across all of our customers”
We’re proud to hold all six Microsoft Partner Designations and Azure Expert MSP status, firmly placing Transparity amongst the most accredited Microsoft Partners in the world.
With decades of combined experience our industry-leading technical experts pride themselves on delivering exceptional customer outcomes and creating long-term partnerships.
As a Solutions Partner for Data & AI holding specialisations in Data Warehouse Migration and AI and Machine Learning, we are trusted to consistently deliver high-quality data platform consultancy services.
In a world of complex data structures, it can be difficult to make sense of it all and make informed decisions. In this guide, we’ll explore how you can put Business Intelligence into action.
Transparity’s data experts explore the power of actionable intelligence, the methodology to get there, the tech and expertise you’ll need.
Transparity’s data and AI services provide a range of data and AI solutions. As well as the ones listed above you may be interested in these:
As a separate company, no. It operates as a technical practice within Transparity, known as Data.
DataShapa were acquired in April 2023 and integrated directly into the wider business.
Alister stayed managing the team as head of practice until his promotion to CTO of Transparity at the beginning of 2025. Luke Collins, an original DataShapa employee has now taken up the mantel of Head of Practice after his years as a Principal Consultant.,
Yes, with Luke at its helm and a team of over 30 architects, developers, testers and project managers, we are the team you know. Additionally, Transparity has focussed practice areas for each technical speciality such as infrastructure, app innovation and security, so we retain our focused expertise and work directly with other such experts
Yes, as well as Geoff there are many others you will know. Gary Chase is now the Head of PMO, so still supervising your projects closely and Szilvia Vegh remains the Operations and Finance Manager within Application Innovation. Many faces will be very familiar to you such as Istvan, James, Lee and Mike with Stephen Spencer celebrating over 15 years now!
