The recent experience of providing support to businesses during the pandemic has reinforced the importance of data quality and data linkage to the effective delivery of public services for business.    

Data about individual businesses is held for a wide range of purposes across different organisations in the Scottish public sector. This data is often partial and fragmented and presents constraints to designing and delivering services to support businesses.   

Solving this data challenge will enable better targeting and management of public sector support, aligning the services provided by various parts of the public sector from the perspective of the recipients. 

So, how can we use data about businesses to transform the design, delivery and evaluation of business support services across Scotland’s public sector?

The Solution

DeepMiner’s DATA SPINE allows Scottish Government to develop business support packages using all the data relating to a company, sector or location. They link data through relationships, allowing for detailed analytics and insights to be derived, providing a unique view of business in Scotland and the potential impact of Government support.

The Opportunity

Organisations such as Governments, Local Authorities and companies, nationally and internationally hold data across multiple locations and in multiple formats. The ability to view data across multiple data silos and make informed decisions is an outcome that not only reduces cost but creates huge economic and societal value.

Next Steps

The objective is to continue to add more and more data to the solution and enable users to easily navigate the data allowing them to gain real insights and create solutions. DeppMiner are in discussions with other departments and have had interest from others. both in the UK and internationally.

The Team

DeepMiner was founded in 2017 and is based in Scotland. They are passionate about data, developing solutions for our customers that allows them to use the very best data to make the best decisions, whether that be economic or Societal.