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Insight18 Jun 2026

Welcoming Prasanna Kumar (P K) Thodupunoori as Chief Executive Officer

Rplus Analytics welcomes P K Thodupunoori as CEO, bringing 25+ years of market leadership to drive the next phase of public-sector digital transformation.

Insight4 Jun 2026

How We Cut a 72-Hour Data Query to 3 Hours

A nationwide risk query that took three days to run now finishes in about three — a ~24× speed-up achieved by fixing the foundation, not the query.

Insight21 May 2026

How Machine-Learning Clustering Saved £340M in Public-Sector Fraud

Unsupervised learning can surface fraud no rule or caseworker ever sees — but only if it's explainable, fair, and keeps a human in the loop.

Insight7 May 2026

From Static Reports to Self-Service: Modernising Government Reporting for 10,000+ Users

Replacing a costly legacy MI system with 50+ governed self-service reports freed both money and the capacity of thousands of people stuck waiting in a queue.

Insight23 Apr 2026

Building 250 Data Pipelines: Lessons From a Government-Scale Data Platform

250+ pipelines from 240+ source systems teach disciplines bespoke work never does: standardised patterns, idempotency, monitoring, and graceful schema-drift handling.

Insight9 Apr 2026

Designing Citizen Services That Handle Highly Sensitive Data Safely

When a service must collect passports and bank statements, 'easy to use' and 'safe' pull against each other — good design reconciles them with security built in from the first decision.

Insight4 Mar 2026

Introducing BidIntel — Rplus Analytics' AI-Native Platform for UK Public Sector Procurement Intelligence

The UK public sector publishes more procurement information than any supplier can realistically read. Every working day, thousands of notices, awards, planning indicators, and framework competitions…

Insight5 Jan 2026

Inside Rplus CloudIQ: One pane of glass for every GPU your business runs

Rplus CloudIQ gives you one pane of glass for every GPU your business runs across clouds — unifying multi-cloud GPU FinOps, observability, and cost control.

Insight27 Sept 2025

Medallion Architecture

The Medallion Pattern in Practice: Bronze, Silver, Gold for Public Sector Data By Rplus Analytics · Data Engineering · Architecture The medallion architecture — Bronze, Silver, Gold — has become…

Insight4 Aug 2025

Designing a Cloud-Agnostic Data Lakehouse: A Reference Architecture for Public Sector

It combines the cost profile and flexibility of a data lake with the performance and governance of a data warehouse, and it does this on top of cheap object storage rather than expensive proprietary engines. The question

Insight4 Aug 2025

Multi-Cloud Data Federation: Sharing Data Without Moving It

Multi-Cloud Data Federation: Sharing Data Without Moving It By Rplus Analytics · Data Engineering · Multi-Cloud For years, the default answer to 'how do I get data from cloud A to cloud B?' was…

Insight4 Jun 2025

Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg, or Apache Hudi: Choosing an Open Table Format

Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg, or Apache Hudi: Choosing an Open Table Format By Rplus Analytics · Data Engineering · Open Source The single most consequential decision in a modern data lakehouse is…

Insight4 May 2025

The Hidden Cost of Cloud Vendor Lock-In in UK Public Sector Data Platforms

Recent deals tell the story plainly: roughly £450M at the Home Office, £350M at HMRC, and £94M at Defra — over £1.1 billion of public money committed to a single hyperscaler in barely twelve months. Each contract on its

Insight26 Mar 2025

Carbon Reduction Plan

Rplus Analytics Solutions is committed to Net Zero by 2050, with near Net Zero targeted by 2030. Our progress, emissions baseline, and reduction strategy under PPN 06/21.

Insight28 Feb 2025

Transforming Public Services with Cloud-Agnostic Data

Transforming Public Services with Cloud-Agnostic Data Introduction In the age of digital transformation, data has become the backbone of public sector efficiency. Yet, many government agencies…

Insight9 Feb 2025

A Practical Guide to Implementing Enterprise Data Governance

A Practical Guide to Implementing Enterprise Data Governance The Importance of Data Governance in Modern Enterprises In today’s data-driven economy, businesses generate and process massive amounts of…

Insight9 Feb 2025

How a Government Agency Reduced Fraud by £340M Using AI and Big Data

How a Government Agency Reduced Fraud by £340M Using AI and Big Data Harnessing AI and Big Data to Combat Fraud Fraud detection has long been a critical challenge for government agencies handling…

Insight9 Feb 2025

The Future of Data Warehousing: Cloud vs. On-Premise Solutions

The Future of Data Warehousing: Cloud vs. On-Premise Solutions As businesses generate vast amounts of data, the ability to store, process, and analyze information efficiently has become a top…

Insight9 Feb 2025

How Big Data is Transforming Decision-Making in Enterprises

How Big Data is Transforming Decision-Making in Enterprises The modern enterprise landscape is defined by data. Every customer interaction, transaction, and operational process generates valuable…

Insight9 Feb 2025

Transforming Data Management for the Public Sector with Cloud Solutions

Transforming Data Management for the Public Sector with Cloud Solutions The Shift Towards Cloud-Based Public Sector Data Management Government agencies handle vast amounts of data across multiple…

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