Data Architecture

The Virtual Forge’s suite of custom data services enable you to get the most value out of your data. From Master Data Management to Reporting to AI readiness, we enable you to make the most out of your data assets.

Data Architecture

The Virtual Forge’s suite of custom data services enable you to get the most value out of your data. From Master Data Management to Reporting to AI readiness, we enable you to make the most out of your data assets.
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Comprehensive Data Solutions

Data is the foundation of everything we do at The Virtual Forge.

We specialise in partnering with clients around the globe to provide customised data architecture, data modeling, data quality, data governance, data engineering, data security, and reporting solutions to enable meaningful insights and full use of your data.

From lightweight business questions to intense AI workloads, clean data on performant architectures is crucial for accomplishing your business goals.

Data underpins everything.

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Custom Data Solutions

Knowing what data you have, being able to get to that data easily and securely, and being able to trust that your data is accurate and complete is crucial to accomplishing your business goals.

We specialise in creating performant and secure data architectures with clean, traceable, data that can be used to produce actionable insights at scale, big or small, from data in any format

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Data Architecture, Modeling, Design, and Strategy

Choosing appropriate data architecture(s) is an important aspect of a company’s data strategy. It can provide a solid, reliable, and performant foundation for all of your data-oriented projects and decisions moving forward. Our data architects and engineers are both multi-cloud and on-premise experienced, across both relational and No-SQL systems, including most major RDBMS systems.

Cloud and On-Prem Data Migrations and Integrations

Designed to make your migration as seamless as possible, our customized data migration solutions ensure your data makes it safely from source system to target.

Reporting

Get the most out of your data from end to end, with as much or as little help as your situation requires. Whatever level of work you’re looking for, from advice on how to improve your existing reports to designing and implementing a complete solution to help you ensure you’re meeting your business goals, our analysts can help you achieve high-quality, visually appealing dashboards with actionable insights over your data, wherever that data may be and in any format, on most major reporting platforms or within a completely bespoke application.

Data Warehousing, Data Lakes, Data Marts, and other Reporting Ready Data Architectures

Data Warehousing and Reporting Ready data structures like Data Marts re-organize and prepare raw data for specific purposes, like reports and advanced analyses. Our team can help you with the entire data life cycle, from determining data strategy to designing and building an appropriate data organization solution to ensuring that you’re getting the most out of your existing data platform.

Data Security and Management

Security is paramount for any organization working with data, especially if that data contains sensitive information or PII. Our engineers are adept at creating secure, penetration-tested, solutions for storing and accessing data, including solutions that are compliant with GDPR, industry-specific data protection regulations, and the most up-to-date security standards.

AI Readiness, Data Quality, and Master Data Management

Data quality and Master Data Management strategies help you to get the most out of your data, regardless of downstream requirements.  Our data architecture and data engineering experts can help you with improving your data quality and creating data management artifacts like Data Dictionaries, Data Management Strategies, and more to help you ensure your data is uniformly understood throughout your business.

High-quality, complete, and representative data is essential for any reliable AI application or use case (or, really, any data use case). Our team of data and AI experts can help you evaluate any issues or gaps in your data and data architecture to satisfy your AI goals and work with you to generate a roadmap to get you where you want to go.

Get The Most From Your Data

Our experienced data experts can help you extract the most value out of your data, at whatever stage you may be.

Adaptable to Your Existing Architecture and Environment

We’re experienced working within client’s existing environments, both on-premise and cloud, creating solutions and platforms from scratch, and everything in between across most major data and reporting platforms. Our approach starts with customising a solution to your needs, building to where you want to go.

Secure, Customisable, and Performant

Our engineers are adept at creating secure solutions to fit your business requirements, both in the cloud and on-prem, customised and optimised to your needs and requirements.

Actionable Reporting

All data tells a story. At The Virtual Forge our reporting analysts can help you get the most insights out of your data in responsive, aesthetically pleasing reports and dashboards.

Forward-Thinking, Secure, and Built to Suit

At The Virtual Forge we believe in continuous improvement, and our engineers consistently upskill on the latest technologies in the industry. Ensure your data will stay secure and help you take advantage of the latest technical developments and advancements in AI and Machine Learning with the help of our experts.

Embrace the future and start your data-driven journey with us today.

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Why The Virtual Forge?

The Virtual Forge is a trusted, global software development company with a solid history of delivering comprehensive solutions for global brands, equipping diverse organisations with the finest technology available.

A team of creative and analytical minds leverages cutting-edge technologies and out-of-the-box thinking to deliver innovative software solutions. We’re always on the lookout for new technologies that can leverage our offer, helping our clients materialize their needs into new systems that streamline their business processes.

Innovation

Quality is our core focus. Our team ensures high standards through rigorous quality assurance processes, thorough testing, code reviews, and continuous improvement.

Quality

Our track record is a testament to our reliability. Always by our client’s side, ensuring that nothing is left to chance. With our commitment to excellence, we pride ourselves on delivering dependable solutions that businesses can trust. 

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Custom data solutions built to suit your business

Building secure and modern data solutions involves a collective effort of individuals with diverse expertise working together towards a common goal.

Committed to quality at all stages of the development lifecycle, our seasoned professionals span a wide variety of project competencies, including account managent, project management, business analysis, UX/UI design, data analysis, data engineering, testing (functional, automated, and data), and DevOps, who play vital roles in our comprehensive approach to software development.

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Discovery Phase

Deep research and analysis, to achieve deep understanding of project requirements, business goals and vision, and target audience. This collaborative effort with stakeholders helps identify pain points and establish project objectives. Our experts at Virtual Forge conduct market research, user interviews, and competitor analysis, gathering valuable insights that shape the development process.

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Planning

Discovery Phase insights turn into a clear roadmap. Collaborating with stakeholders, our team establishes project scope, features, and define objectives, milestones, timelines, resources, and budget.

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Development Phase

Equipped with a robust plan and clear requirements, skilled data engineers and analysts transform the proposed solution into reality, focusing on creating clean and maintainable solutions, following industry best practices, and implementing efficient architectures and code artifacts.

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Testing Phase

The testing phase is crucial for ensuring the reliability and functionality of any custom solution or dashboard. Our dedicated Testing team uses various techniques, including functional and automated testing, while creating thorough test plans, executing test cases, and rigorously inspecting pipelines, reports, and all other solution components for any defects or inconsistencies.

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Deployment Phase

Beginning with the end in mind, our teams dilligently prepare for smooth, agile, deployments leveraging the expertise of our DevOps professionals. We guarantee comprehensive testing, optimisation, and compatibility of the software with the target environment, in addition to comprehensive release updates.

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Helpdesk

Ongoing maintenance services are in place to address any bugs, errors, or updates that may arise post-deployment. Our HelpDesk team provide timely support to handle user inquiries, troubleshoot issues, and enhance the software's performance.

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Case studies

Customers of varying scales and industries consistently rely on The Virtual Forge’s data-driven custom software solutions to expand their businesses. Find out more about how this works in practice, and have a look at some of our case studies, covering a diverse range of projects. We are proud of our work, and you can now see why.

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WASP

Custom Power BI Dashboards for Personalised Care

Wessex Academy for Skills in Personalised Care needed support from the Virtual Forge to map their new questionnaire files in Ecle format from Qualtrics into a Power BI dashboard.

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Magnaflux

Helping a global leader in nondestructive testing solutions drive their data to better efficiency

The Virtual Forge was approached by Magnaflux to make recommendations around their Power BI reporting on global financial data. As the global leader in non-destructive testing, Magnaflux have been a part of the world’s progress helping develop safer parts for cars, jet liners and infrastructures.

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Stellantis

MyContentScout Implementation

Stellantis faced the challenge of efficiently finding and getting answers and insights from their vast amounts of digital content. They reached out to The Virtual Forge to implement MyContentScout, a pioneering AI solution that enables organisations to improve the way they find answers and insights from their content easier, faster, and with more accuracy than ever before, precisely when they need it.

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SEGA

Consolidation and Optimisation of Power BI Reporting

SEGA, a multinational video game company, found themselves in a situation where they have grown in their use of Power BI to a point where it was difficult to navigate and maintain consistency. The selected The Virtual Forge to help them optimise and consolidate their Power BI Reporting.

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What Our Clients Say About Us

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The Virtual Forge's work has lowered our system downtime and fastened the turnover of tickets on the help desk. The team has executed updates correctly and maintains communication via emails and messages. The Virtual Forge's Co-CEO participation in the project has been crucial.

Tom Blades

Head of Systems Integration

The Virtual Forge successfully delivered a working prototype of the dashboard, meeting our expectations. The team responded quickly to requests and modifications, and they were hands-on, knowledgeable, and receptive throughout the project.

Geir Arne Evjen

CTO

Their collaborative approach fostered a sense of partnership and trust, where our voices were heard and our vision was respected.

Rosanna Turk

Co-Founder

Working with The Virtual Forge was a pleasure. The relationships that we build, quite quickly, led to a really lovely experience. The whole team was highly efficient, creative and tactical.

Toby Lewis

Senior Manager, Collaboration Strategy

Working with The Virtual Forge made everyone enjoy being part of the project. It never felt like two separate teams, but just one big team. Everything felt natural, easy, even when there were challenges.

Heather Read

Learning Centre Team Leader and Systems Specialist

The Virtual Forge Partners

The Virtual Forge collaborates with several strategic partners to guarantee the delivery of cutting-edge services that meet and exceed clients' expectations. We are trusted by some of the most recognised technological brands in the world.

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When our collective minds come together, remarkable things unfold. Poke around in our latest thoughts, tinkerings and breakthroughs in the realm of all things digital.

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