Dark Spark Consulting
Outsourced Data Management
Dark Spark is a specialist data and analytics consultancy that supports a wide range of organisations, of varying sizes.
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We work closely with your teams and IT resource to take care of all your data, automation and reporting needs, including:
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Providing technical and user support & access management
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Developing data golden-sources and centralised reporting
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Delivering continuous service improvement:
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Develop and maintain a product roadmap
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Implement backlog items
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Benefits of a Data Management Service
Flexibility
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Accommodate busy or changing staff schedules and establish a steady pace of delivery and continuous service improvement.
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Use Dark Spark expertise at a reduced rate.
Systems access & contractual coverage
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Systems access remains in place - no need to keep submitting fresh IT requests. This gives us the opportunity to build your staff's skills and solution knowledge more gradually over time.
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Contractual coverage remains in place - no need to keep re-engaging with signatories, Procurement or legal counsel.
Availability
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We're on-hand to:
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Support staff and user adoption and offer advice.
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Respond swiftly to new business requirements.
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Easily scope project ideas.
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Deliver quick experiments / proof-of-concepts.
Enhanced Service Offerings
To complement the items listed above, our team also offers the below services
Regular meetings with a Co-Founder
We want relationships with the teams that we support. One of our Co-Founders will run regular meetings with you and your IT resource to make sure there's full visibility of the work we're doing and we plan for your future needs.
Staff Training & Data Culture
We know that over time you might want to build your own, in-house data capabilities. We can support you by:
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Teaming up with your staff so that they work alongside us and get on-the-job training
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Running specific training sessions (can be recorded)
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Creating a data catalogue and additional documentation or architectural diagrams
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Helping you establish a delivery framework
Project Work
You might have data, reporting, automation or AI requirements that go beyond the scope of your service tier. We can offer:
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Additional support hours
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Rapid experimentation and Proof-of-Concept deliveries
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Solution Architecture expertise
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Delivery Management
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Business Analysis
Why choose Dark Spark?
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We value in-person working and our team is exclusively based in the UK.
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Our staff have a broad skill set, enabling us to seamlessly transition between engineering and analysis activities, and the flexibility to offer more advanced data science solutions when you need them.
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Our Co-Founders care passionately about customer experience and take a hands-on approach to delivery.
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We deliver with a long-term view in mind, so collaboration, documentation and knowledge transfer activities are baked into our work from the beginning.
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We offer comprehensive but flexible contract terms and are always keen to have a conversation to provide free advice or explore different options for how we could help you.
Alzheimer's Research UK
"Dark Spark were able to quickly get up to speed and understand our data and produced excellent dashboards for us.
They were very proactive...and went beyond the brief to make suggestions on how we could do more with the data available.
Dark Spark were a pleasure to work with."
The Prince of Wales Hospice
"A big thank you to the Dark Spark Consulting team who, in just two short weeks, have upgraded a very basic fundraising management information PowerPoint into an insightful, data-driven, Power BI dashboard.
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This dashboard will now help us become more data-driven with our fundraising, giving us clear focus areas, and boosting performance through clear, trackable, KPIs.
It also saves me the huge monthly headache of trying to create the management information manually."
The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
“The team were really focused on their tasks and operated in an extremely professional manner.
Not only did they exceed what I was hoping for as an end product, but they took the framework that we provided and have set the bar really high for what might come next.”
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