Rail BI
Confident, Cost-Effective Decision-Making for Rail Infrastructure Projects
Experience in rail data, processes and software since 2014.
A boutique consultancy: group of software engineers from a variety of backgrounds and training: physics, computer science, data science and accounting.
A great place to work: work-life balance is essential value – completed a successful transition to 4-day week in 2021
We are passionate about:
- Helping organisations get control of their data: harnessing data into information with flexible and easy access, transformation of data and business processes to ensure longevity of data solutions
- Building services and applications: modern costeffective tools for easy automation of processes, reporting and visualisation
- Communicating the limits of spreadsheets! Excel has many uses but is often taken far beyond where it stifles collaboration, and effectiveness gives way to errors, poor maintainability and risk of data loss, data corruption or data theft.
Automated Business Cases for Rail Infrastructure Projects
Strategic partnership with Network Rail to investigate efficiencies in planning processes. Specifically, “how do we build business cases and cost estimates for all of the upcoming Digital Railway projects without expensive lengthy processes and abortive work?”
We discovered that ETCS and Traffic Management (TM) business cases were very well suited to asset data and metric-based estimation and built a quick and accurate platform for justifying investment decisions:
Step 1: Harness the data. To move data out of silos and resolve discrepancies, we built an intuitive browsable interface for their data. We imported multiple sources of asset and operational data, connected them logically and geographically. We cleansed and rationalised.