About Us

Who we are.

With more than two decades of combined data and analytics experience, DW Data delivers real results, with measurable impact to customers wanting more from their data assets.

Our experienced team of professionals all share 5 important traits. They are inspirers, achievers, listeners, lifelong students and act with pace.

This is what we look for when growing the DW Data family because this is what lays the foundation for true data quality.

Listeners

Great data has the ability to filter out noise and hear what is being said. Our experts have that same skill too. Jumping to conclusions or leaving things open to interpretation costs time and hence, money. At DW Data we pride ourselves on being excellent listeners who ask the right questions to extract the core of the requirement.

Acting With Pace

The days of spending hours drawing up complex project plans and schedules are over. At DW Data acting with pace doesn’t involve rushing. It means agility, working with a deliberate focus to act promptly, without delay and with the optimum speed required to deliver to realistic expectations.

Lifelong Students

The very nature of data and analytics is rapid and constant change. At DW Data we haven’t set out to keep up but to keep ahead. We know that staying up to date and at the forefront of the technologies we use is critical to your success.

Achievers

When it comes to data, we believe in setting goals. That is how we track performance, achievement and ultimately success. Clear objective setting at the outset is critical and once we have identified them, we can plot the journey to success.

Inspirers

Where collective inspiration exists, so does the critical mass of any solution developing faster. This is why at DW Data you’ll discover a team of experts consistently inspiring each other and our customers too.

WHAT WE DO

We work with retailers to unlock the value in their data.

We help them understand, shape and predict their business performance in order to drive greater visibility and impact.

This organically increases customer engagement, efficiency and ultimately profitability.

We have the business acumen and technical ability to understand what is being asked of us and then translate it into software which is fit for the purpose. We also understand the advantage of giving end users what they need.

We speak retail. Because we only focus on retail reporting, you won’t have to spend time explaining specific retail challenges to us, chances are we’ve seen it before.

HOW WE DO IT

We follow a strict Agile methodology in delivering solutions to our customers.

Agile works. It enables us to produce the results which have been prioritised by our customers quickly, and iterate these swiftly through feedback loops.

Every major piece of work will always be a function of three resources that are competing for Quality (The Iron Triangle of development)

• Cost
• Scope
• Schedule

If any of these three aspects need to change, agile is often the best process to manage the impact. For instance, if the schedule has been shortened, we either need to reduce scope or add resources.

When it comes to deciphering data, clear and unambiguous is what you’re looking for. We’re the same, which is why honest communication in and around the process is what you can count on when engaging with DW Data.

All our coding is restored in a version control system, which allows us to easily do multi team participation within the code, as well as continuous integration and deployment.
Where feasible, we endeavour to cover as much of the code with automated tests, ensuring technical documentation is always kept up to date.

Keeping you on top of your game is what we strive for at DW Data. Our experts will continually evaluate your environment for performance bottlenecks, to ensure all necessary patches and updates are applied.

Your data is your secret weapon. That is why we place utmost emphasis on your data security, making sure your data is protected and secure at all times.

WHO WE DO IT FOR

We provide solutions for national and multinational retailers using Microsoft SQL Server or are planning to transition to it.

Whether you have ten stores in three states or 300 stores in 6 different countries, our comprehensive solutions and services are tailored to suit your individual needs.

Whether you’re unsatisfied with existing reporting in your ERP / POS system, are facing a situation whereby preparing weekly trade reports is extremely time-consuming due to data not being centralised or turnaround time from existing technology solutions for reporting simply takes too long, or even if you need to seamlessly integrate external data feeds like social media, traffic counters, weather data and the like into the core reporting of the business, DW Data does it all.

We aren’t just coders.

We’re business people too. We focus on understanding the commercial challenge before we go ahead and start writing any code. Each member of our team has a keen commercial awareness and our experience spans a number of verticals.