Sovereign engages Simpson Associates to scope data warehouse & business intelligence platform to aid strategic vision

Simpson Associates (SA) is delighted to announce that they have been selected by Sovereign Housing Association, one of the UK’s leading, largest and most innovative housing associations, to aid its aspiration to become a data & analytics led housing association.

Sovereign selected SA, to scope, design and prepare a business case for delivery of an enterprise grade data warehouse & business intelligence platform, supported by a new approach data governance practice. The platform will bring numerous datasets together in one easy to use, single location, to empower Sovereign employees to publish governed accurate reports and KPIs, using visually interactive dashboards. This will pave the way forward for the introduction of exciting data science techniques in the future, such as AI and Machine Learning.

“We are thrilled to be working in partnership with Sovereign, to help them unlock the power of their data and achieve their strategic vision. Our data warehousing and business intelligence platform will help the forward-thinking association to understand complex and common challenges, that will enable them to make more effective business decisions, based around high-quality data, to drastically improve their business performance and deliver fast and accurate data insights. Helping them to become an even more modern and connected business.

Nick Evans, Business Development Manager, Simpson Associates

“Our corporate plan acknowledges the huge potential in becoming a more data-led business, as Sovereign focuses on delivering better services to our customers and more efficiently and effectively managing our homes. We chose to engage with Simpson Associates because they are a like-minded organisation that share our vision and understand the need to balance technology with capability and culture. We are excited by the prospect of the new platform, that will enable us to make more effective business decisions, relate previously disparate data, explore new approaches and build smoother processes, which will directly benefit our customers.”

Andrew Bradley, Head of Data & Analytics, Sovereign Housing Association

Sovereign’s new corporate strategy will see the housing association build around 2000 new homes a year as well as investing in the regeneration of existing estates, as part of its drive to create flourishing neighbourhoods that only get better with time.

About Simpson Associates

Simpson Associates is a data analytics company. Our data and performance management solutions enable forward-thinking organisations to understand and resolve some of the most complex and common challenges to deliver the best solutions to meet organisations individual business needs.

Simpson Associates has an extensive partner network. As a Microsoft Gold Partner, we hold four Gold Competencies in Data and BI. Other partners include IBM Gold partner, a Board MIT Premier Partner, and an Information Builders Partner. This ecosystem of technology vendor relationships equips us with a deeper expertise to deliver the best solutions to meet individual business needs.