Data Strategy & Governance

The Virtual Forge works with clients to develop and execute winning data strategies supported by sustainable data governance. We advocate for business-led data strategy, which ensures that investments into data capabilities are harmonized with, and targeted to enhance, the strategic and competitive needs of our client’s business.

Data Strategy & Governance

The Virtual Forge works with clients to develop and execute winning data strategies supported by sustainable data governance. We advocate for business-led data strategy, which ensures that investments into data capabilities are harmonized with, and targeted to enhance, the strategic and competitive needs of our client’s business.
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Data Strategy & Governance

Our team takes a portfolio approach to recommending investments into data capabilities. Investments may encompass people, process, or technology, and are evaluated based on their risk-controlled values to the business. Strategies are pursued that positively impact revenue generation, cost savings, or risk reduction, with minimum cost and execution risks. This approach generates value and controls risk in the face of a continuously changing business and IT landscape.

We take a targeted approach to data governance and focus on using best practices to capture the “as is” state of critical business tasks and the data that supports them.

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Business-Led Data Strategy and Governance

The Virtual Forge helps companies to define and progress the programs that turn data into business value. We work with data leaders and consumers within your business to clearly define where investments can be made in your data ecosystem to drive a quantifiable return, and then we align internal and external teams to accomplish those goals. 

We help companies collect the critical metadata that allows these processes to operate properly, and set up programs that reinforce data strategy and governance practices moving forward.  

Data Strategy

Data is everywhere within a business, and it is important to a diverse network of stakeholders who need it to perform.  Making sense of how to best curate and protect that critical information and use it for the good of the business is a complex process.  The Virtual Forge helps businesses simplify, prioritize, and align strategic data programs for maximum business value.  

Data Governance

 Data Governance programs fail when they don’t produce sufficient value to the stakeholders who support them.  The Virtual Forge helps business implement and sustain practical governance programs that align to business value goals.  This alignment sustains enthusiasm and progress while maintaining critical outputs such as dictionaries, glossaries, catalogs, and data governance KPIs.  

Data Quality

For data to be effectively used in a business it must be trusted. Nothing erodes data trust more than poor quality data that may contain errors, missing elements, or other non-conformities. 

The Virtual Forge works with businesses to define and implement data quality measurements and KPIs that expose the true quality of your data sources and provide clear progress metrics for quality improvement and ongoing monitoring activities.

Technical Advisory

The Virtual Forge has extensive experience in the implementation of data architecture, analytics, AI, and IT systems. Whether considering and investment in data/analytics solutions, preparing for a data migration or integration effort, or looking for ways to improve the performance of your ecosystem, The Virtual Forge can help ensure your strategy is sound, and assist in realizing that strategy through expert implementation support.

Empowering Performance with Data

A data problem within a business is often just a symptom. People, processes, and technology all create, interpret, modify, and destroy data continuously and contribute to the complexity of diagnosis and solutioning. 

Getting to root causes, common understandings, and actionable solutions takes a persistent and multidisciplinary approach.  The Virtual Forge has significant experience working with businesses to solve these challenges, as well as executing data improvement workstreams that rapidly produce real world results.    

Eliminate Data Confusion

When the meaning, purpose, and quality of data is unknown it cannot be maximised for business value. We help clients cut through the confusion with data governance and management practices to create trusted data products.

Maximise Data Value

When a business fully understands its portfolio of data investments and the win worth of each, the process of selecting and implementing the highest return data opportunities becomes faster, simpler, and less risky.

Protect Data Integrity

Protecting data integrity is important, particularly for the critical data that drives your business forward. Our team assists clients in determining exactly where data management and protection investments are most beneficial.

Put Good Data to Work

A good data strategy connects fit-for-purpose data to the people who can use it to increase business performance. Our business-led data strategy ensures that data products are a perfect fit for the user stakeholders and have the agility to keep up with changing business needs.

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.

Our team comprises seasoned professionals from diverse backgrounds, bringing a wealth of knowledge and expertise.

Experience

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.

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Our Process

The Virtual Forge takes a targeted approach to data strategy and governance that aligns these critical programs to ensure they gain traction. Governance activities are applied against the most critical data sets that enable the most critical business activities.  

Within the Data Strategy program we capture and rank use cases for data, which are used to precisely target data investments.  Data sets within scope of selected investments become the prioritized targets for the Data Governance Program.  This ensures both programs remain nimble, relevant, and effective.

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Data Strategy Discovery

Our experts work with your team to baseline your current data strategy. We learn how data is used and discussed through your business and how the organization’s data activities align with the vision of the leadership and the insights of the data consumers.

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Data Maturity Assessment

The assessment stage concludes with an overview of the data maturity of the organization. This artifact is a synthesis of the business and technical information gathered from your organization’s data team and helps to illustrate areas of strength and weakness to inform the future strategy.

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Data Strategy Blueprint

The Virtual Forge team works collaboratively with your stakeholders to create a blueprint for the future. This process seeks to create alignment on the most effective path to both close gaps in the maturity assessment and capture opportunities revealed through the strategy discovery sessions. We work with you to develop practical, fully ROI-backed plans that move your organization’s initiatives forward using data.

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Data Sprints

Data Sprints are discrete units of work that achieve a goal outlined in the blueprint. Our team applies expert resources to fully perform the outlined work activities or assembles blended teams mixing internal and external resources to accomplish the program’s goals. Data Sprints are scoped to provide quick wins, produce measurable ROI, and exercise the strategy and governance frameworks so that the organization can independently manage these activities in the future.

Tools & Technologies

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Tools and Technologies

We use a combination of industry tools and internal practices that enable our teams to execute transparently, effectively, and with great agility. Our tools & technologies enable IT and business stakeholders to collaborate and contribute to a holistic data strategy that creates transformative business results.

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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Sterling

Post-Acquisition Data Migration

Data quality and transformation activities needed to happen rapidly to ensure no loss of service quality for clients.

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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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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.

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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.

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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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