Data & Business Intelligence
Turn raw data into actionable insights, unlocking new opportunities and driving smarter decisions.
At Lumen, our expertise in Data & Business Intelligence (BI) enables us to work alongside you, navigating the ever-evolving data landscape and unlocking the true potential of your enterprise data. We help you establish the foundational building blocks needed to transform raw data into valuable insights that drive strategic decision-making and business growth.
Our Principal Data & BI Consultants bring decades of experience in enterprise data strategy, management, and analytics. We combine this deep expertise with industry-leading Data Governance & Management frameworks, designed to address the complexities of modern data ecosystems.
Through a readiness assessment, we evaluate your organisation’s data maturity and provide strategic guidance on modernisation initiatives. Whether it’s developing a robust data strategy, architecting an enterprise-wide data warehouse, or implementing cutting-edge BI solutions, Lumen is here to empower your data-driven journey.

Enterprise Data Strategy
At Lumen, we are committed to being your trusted advisor, working alongside your teams to shape a future-proof Enterprise Data Strategy. In today’s data-driven world, businesses must move beyond fragmented data initiatives and develop a holistic, scalable, and outcome-focused strategy. We help organisations transform their data into a strategic asset, enabling smarter decision-making, operational efficiency, and competitive advantage.
We partner with you to develop a tailored strategy that:
A well-defined Enterprise Data Strategy ensures that data is not just collected but effectively managed, governed, and leveraged for business growth. Our Principal Data & BI Consultants bring decades of experience in shaping data strategies that align technology, governance, and business goals.
In addition to strategy, Lumen’s consultancy extends to key pillars of enterprise data management, with a comprehensive Data & BI Services:
Data Management & Governance
Implementing frameworks to maintain high-quality, secure, and compliant data.
Data Warehousing & Big Data
Designing scalable platforms for structured and unstructured data across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments.
Data Warehousing for AI
Enabling AI-driven insights through high-performance, AI-ready data architectures.
BI & Visualisation
Creating intuitive dashboards and reports that turn complex data into actionable intelligence.
Data Management
At Lumen, we help organisations establish robust Data Management practices that ensure data is trusted, secure, and actionable. In an era where data is a critical business asset, effective Data Management is essential for driving informed decision-making, regulatory compliance, and AI-driven innovation. Our consultancy provides the strategic guidance, frameworks, and technology expertise needed to create a scalable and well-governed data ecosystem.
Lumen’s Data Management Experts conduct a comprehensive assessment of your current data landscape, identifying gaps, risks, and optimisation opportunities. We provide a tailored roadmap to help you build a mature, well-governed, and scalable data ecosystem that supports both operational efficiency and advanced analytics.
By partnering with Lumen, your organisation can turn raw data into a strategic asset, ensuring it is trusted, well-managed, and primed for AI-driven insights—unlocking new opportunities for growth and innovation.
Lumen’s Data Management Strategy is designed to help organisations optimise, govern, and leverage their data assets efficiently. Our approach focuses on key pillars of modern enterprise data management:
Data Governance & Compliance
Establishing policies, roles, and processes to maintain data quality, security, and regulatory compliance (GDPR, CCPA, industry standards).
Master Data Management (MDM)
Creating a single source of truth by ensuring data consistency and accuracy across multiple business functions and applications.
Metadata Management
Implementing frameworks for data cataloguing, lineage tracking, and classification, improving data discoverability and usability.
Data Quality & Stewardship
Ensuring data accuracy, completeness, and consistency to enhance trust and reliability in analytics and decision-making.
Data Integration & Interoperability
Designing and implementing seamless data flows between systems using ETL, APIs, event-driven architectures, and cloud-based integration solutions.
Data Security & Privacy
Embedding data protection measures, encryption, access controls, and risk management strategies to safeguard sensitive data.
Scalable Data Architecture
Supporting structured and unstructured data across data lakes, data warehouses, and cloud platforms, ensuring high-performance data operations.
Data Warehousing
At Lumen, we help organisations design and implement modern, scalable, and high-performance data warehouses that support real-time analytics, AI-driven insights, and enterprise-wide decision-making. As businesses generate increasing volumes of data, having a well-structured, optimised, and future-ready data warehousing strategy is essential for maintaining a competitive edge.
Lumen’s Data Warehouse Experts conduct a comprehensive readiness assessment, evaluating your current data landscape, architecture, and performance metrics. We provide a tailored roadmap for data warehouse modernisation, ensuring your platform is scalable, cost-effective, and AI-ready.
By partnering with Lumen, your organisation can unlock the full potential of data warehousing—enabling real-time analytics, seamless business intelligence, and AI-powered insights for long-term success.
Lumen’s Data Warehousing Consultancy ensures that organisations can store, manage, and analyse their data effectively, delivering a unified, accessible, and high-performance data platform. Our approach includes:
Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) Strategy
Designing a centralised or distributed data warehouse aligned with your business goals and analytical needs.
Cloud & Hybrid Data Warehousing
Implementing on-premise, cloud-native, or hybrid data warehouse solutions (AWS Redshift, Snowflake, Google BigQuery, Azure Synapse) to ensure scalability, security, and flexibility.
Data Architecture & Modelling
Designing high-performance data models (Star Schema, Snowflake Schema, Data Vault, or Hybrid) to optimise query performance and reporting.
Data Integration & ETL/ELT Pipelines
Implementing automated data ingestion, transformation, and processing using ETL/ELT frameworks to ensure data is accurate, timely, and analytics-ready.
Big Data & Data Lake Integration
Combining structured and unstructured data across data lakes and warehouses to enable advanced analytics, AI, and machine learning.
Data Governance & Security
Ensuring robust access controls, encryption, and compliance measures to protect data and meet regulatory requirements.
Optimisation & Performance Tuning
Enhancing query speed, indexing, partitioning, and caching to ensure cost-efficient and high-speed data retrieval.
Big Data and Data Lake
At Lumen, we empower organisations to harness the full potential of Big Data by designing and implementing scalable, high-performance Data Lake architectures. In today’s digital landscape, businesses must manage vast volumes of structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data, ensuring it is accessible, governed, and analytics-ready. Our Big Data & Data Lake consultancy enables enterprises to build future-proof data ecosystems that drive AI, machine learning, and real-time analytics.
Lumen’s Big Data Experts conduct a comprehensive assessment of your current data landscape, technology stack, and performance bottlenecks. We provide a tailored roadmap to help you build an AI-powered, analytics-driven Data Lake that enables scalability, innovation, and real-time decision-making.
By partnering with Lumen, your organisation can unlock the true power of Big Data, ensuring that data is not just stored but transformed into actionable intelligence—fueling business growth and digital transformation.
Lumen’s Big Data & Data Lake Strategy is designed to help organisations store, process, and analyse massive datasets efficiently, ensuring seamless integration across their data ecosystem. Our approach includes:
Data Lake Strategy & Architecture
Designing a scalable and secure Data Lake that supports multi-format data ingestion across cloud, hybrid, or on-premise environments (AWS S3, Azure Data Lake, Google Cloud Storage, Hadoop).
Big Data Processing & Analytics
Implementing distributed computing frameworks such as Apache Spark, Hadoop, and Databricks to process large datasets at scale.
Real-Time & Streaming Data Integration
Enabling real-time data ingestion and processing using Kafka, Kinesis, Pub/Sub, and Flink, ensuring continuous data availability for analytics.
Data Lakehouse & Hybrid Approaches
Combining the flexibility of Data Lakes with the performance of Data Warehouses, leveraging modern lakehouse architectures (Databricks, Snowflake, Iceberg, Delta Lake) for enhanced analytics.
Data Governance & Metadata Management
Embedding data cataloging, lineage tracking, and access controls to ensure data quality, discoverability, and compliance with regulations (GDPR, CCPA).
Machine Learning & AI-Ready Infrastructure
Preparing data lakes to support advanced AI/ML workloads, providing seamless integration with TensorFlow, PyTorch, and AutoML.
Security & Cost Optimisation
Implementing role-based access control (RBAC), encryption, and tiered storage strategies to balance security, compliance, and cost efficiency.
Data Warehousing for AI
At Lumen, we help organisations build AI-ready Data Warehouses that enable advanced analytics, machine learning, and real-time decision-making. Traditional data warehouses were designed for structured reporting, but modern AI-driven businesses require scalable, high-performance architectures that support complex AI workloads, unstructured data, and real-time processing. Our Data Warehousing for AI consultancy ensures that your data infrastructure is optimised for AI-driven insights, predictive analytics, and automation.
Lumen’s AI & Data Warehousing Experts conduct a comprehensive readiness assessment, evaluating your current data warehouse architecture, AI maturity, and performance bottlenecks. We provide a tailored roadmap to modernise your data infrastructure for AI-driven insights, ensuring that your organisation is positioned to scale AI adoption, accelerate model deployment, and drive innovation.
By partnering with Lumen, your organisation can transform its data warehouse into a high-performance AI engine, unlocking new opportunities in predictive analytics, automation, and AI-powered decision-making.
Lumen’s AI-Ready Data Warehouse Strategy is designed to support high-performance AI and machine learning workloads while ensuring scalability, efficiency, and security. Our approach includes:
AI-Driven Data Architecture
Designing cloud-native, hybrid, or on-premise AI-ready data warehouses that efficiently handle structured and unstructured data (Snowflake, Google BigQuery, Azure Synapse, AWS Redshift, Databricks).
Data Pipelines & AI Integration
Implementing automated ETL/ELT pipelines for seamless data ingestion and transformation, ensuring real-time AI model training and inferencing.
Feature Store & ML Model Support
Enabling AI-driven data engineering by implementing feature stores to manage and reuse ML features across models for improved accuracy and efficiency.
Big Data & Data Lakehouse Integration
Combining Data Warehouses and Data Lakes in a Lakehouse architecture to support batch, real-time, and streaming AI applications.
GPU-Optimised Processing & Compute Scaling
Leveraging high-performance computing (HPC), GPU acceleration, and AI-optimised databases to handle large-scale AI workloads efficiently.
AI Governance & Explainability
Embedding AI ethics, bias detection, lineage tracking, and regulatory compliance to ensure transparency and accountability in AI-driven decision-making.
Security, Compliance & Cost Optimisation
Implementing robust security controls, encryption, access management, and cost-efficient data storage strategies to align AI infrastructure with business needs.
BI and Visualisation
At Lumen, we help organisations transform their data into actionable insights through Business Intelligence (BI) and data visualisation. In a data-driven world, the ability to turn complex data into clear, interactive visualisations is essential for informed decision-making at all levels of the organisation. Our BI & Visualisation Consultancy ensures that your data is not only accessible but also understandable, enabling your teams to make data-driven decisions with confidence.
Lumen’s BI & Visualisation Experts conduct a comprehensive needs assessment, reviewing your current BI setup, identifying gaps, and ensuring that your BI strategy supports the needs of all stakeholders. We provide a tailored roadmap for building or enhancing your BI infrastructure, ensuring that it is optimised for real-time analytics, collaboration, and business intelligence.
By partnering with Lumen, your organisation can empower decision-makers at all levels with data-driven insights, enabling you to unlock growth, improve efficiency, and foster a culture of informed decision-making across the business.
Lumen’s AI-Ready Data Warehouse Strategy is designed to support high-performance AI and machine learning workloads while ensuring scalability, efficiency, and security. Our approach includes:
BI Strategy Development
Designing a comprehensive BI strategy aligned with your organisation's goals, identifying key metrics and defining KPIs that drive business success.
Data Visualisation Design & Storytelling
Creating interactive, user-friendly dashboards and visual reports that simplify complex data and help stakeholders understand key trends, patterns, and outliers.
Cloud-Based BI Solutions
Implementing cloud-native BI platforms (Power BI, Tableau, Qlik Sense, Looker) that enable real-time data access, scalability, and collaboration across the organisation.
Data Integration & ETL/ELT for BI
Ensuring seamless data flow from source systems to BI tools with robust ETL/ELT processes that provide clean, accurate, and timely data for analysis.
Advanced Analytics & Predictive Reporting
Incorporating advanced analytics, AI-powered insights, and predictive modelling into BI dashboards to provide forward-looking insights and improve decision-making.
Self-Service BI
Empowering users across the organisation with self-service BI tools that allow them to create their own reports and explore data without heavy reliance on IT or data teams.
Governance & Data Quality for BI
Establishing data governance frameworks to ensure data accuracy, consistency, and security, while improving trust in the BI reports and visualisations.
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