Salford has an unusual mix. Broadcasters and production companies at MediaCityUK, a heavy cluster of digital, marketing and tech firms, plus logistics and light industrial businesses along the ship canal. What they share is a lot of data across a lot of tools, and not enough time to join it up properly. Our data consultancy work in Salford is mostly about doing that joining up cleanly, then keeping it running.
On the data engineering side, we bring together the finance system, CRM, project or production tracking tool, ad platforms and analytics into a single modelled source of truth. We build scalable pipelines on Azure and Microsoft Fabric so adding a new source later is a change, not a rebuild. On top of that sits the data analytics layer. Utilisation, margin by project, campaign performance, retention, cash. The metrics leadership actually cares about, in one place.
Where machine learning helps we build it in. Forecasting billable demand, predicting project overruns before they eat the margin, scoring leads for the commercial team. We are equally happy to say when it does not help, and stick to good reporting instead. The consulting services we offer are structured to prove value quickly, and we are committed to delivering something in weeks rather than months.
For teams that want to own the platform themselves, we combine the build with Power BI training so your own analyst or ops lead can extend it. We work closely with clients in Manchester, Bolton and Stockport as well. If you would like to talk it through, get in touch.