What parts of the data journey can PTR help with?

PTR supports the full data lifecycle: collecting, storing, preparing, and serving data for analytics and reporting, whether it be BI or AI.

Does PTR offer mentoring as part of its consultancy?

Yes. PTR uses a mentoring and collaborative style, helping upskill internal teams while guiding them through design and implementation.

What is Data Analytics?

Data Analytics is the process of investigating data to identify patterns, trends, and insights that support decision‑making and business improvement.

What skills are needed for data analytics?

The most important data analytics skills include: - Data modelling - Data cleansing - SQL - Python or R - Visualisation tools like Power BI - Knowledge about your business processes and language

What is Business Intelligence (BI)?

Business Intelligence refers to solutions that transform raw business data into meaningful reports and dashboards to support better decision‑making.

Fractional Data Team

What is a Fractional Data Team?

Our fractional data team offering gives you access to the expertise of our whole multi-skilled team, on a flexible monthly basis to suit your needs. It's the same high-quality, trusted expert consultancy we have been offering for over 35 years, offered as a predictable monthly service, with the flexibility to scale up and scale down as your priorities and needs change. One agreement gives you access to solution architects, data engineers, BI developers, data scientists, and process automation specialists.

What can PTR help with?

Data Analytics & Business Intelligence

Start unlocking insight from your data by working with our team to communicate your data with meaning and purpose.

Data Engineering & Integration

Our data engineers will help you extract data from myriad sources and prepare it for consumption by a whole range of different workloads.

Data Platform Architecture

Our solution architects will help you design and build a data platform shaped around your business, your needs, and your people, so you can leverage the value of your data with confidence.

Data Strategy & Data Governance

Work with us to implement policy based controls with a clear strategy, ensuring your data is an asset rather than a vulnerability.

Process Automation & Agentic AI

Automate repetitive tasks and free up your time to focus on the things that are really going to make a difference to your business.

Data Science & Machine Learning

Work with our data scientists to move beyond simply reporting on the past and find the patterns hidden in your data.

Why choose PTR?

We have been helping our clients for over 35 years, bringing meaning and context to data for organisations of all shapes and sizes. We take the time to listen and learn everything we can about you, your business, your people, your data estate, and your aspirations to design and build practical and scalable solutions that deliver real return on investment.

Some of the people who have trusted us to unlock insight from their data:

Building a successful data practice is a multi-disciplinary process, and achieving that with internal hires can be a real challenge in a competitive market where data professionals are more in demand than ever. Our fractional offering can help you get off the ground much quicker with lower commitment, risk, and cost.

Cost - A single experienced data hire can cost £50,000–£80,000+ a year before recruitment fees, employer's NI, pension, tooling, training, and management overhead. A Fractional Data Team gives you a broader range of skills for a smaller commitment.
Breadth - No single person covers strategy, governance, platform architecture, engineering, BI, and AI. A lone hire inevitably has gaps — and you only discover where those gaps are once a project hits them. A fractional team brings the full range of disciplines from day one.
Risk and resilience - A one-person data function is a single point of failure. Annual leave, illness, or a resignation can stall everything. Our team provides continuity, peer review, and cover, so your data capability doesn't rest on one set of shoulders.
Time to value - Recruitment can take months, and a new hire needs time to get up to speed. Our team is ready to go, with the experience to get productive quickly.

Of course sometimes, a permanent hire will be the best option and we'll be open with you when we think that's the case. When your data function matures to the point where that internal hire is necessary, we can also support you in that journey to make sure you're getting the right people at the right time, and providing them with the skills and support they need to be successful.

Technologies

We specialise in building data solutions in the Microsoft ecosystem. We have been a Microsoft partner since 2005, currently holding Solution Partner designation for Data & AI in Azure, with certifications held across the team in Microsoft Fabric, Azure, and Power BI so you can be confident that our knowledge and skills have been tried and tested.

Microsoft Power BI

With its rich, engaging, and extensible interactive visualisation platform, Power BI empowers you to turn data into insight, enabling users to answer their own questions and drive data decision making.

Microsoft Fabric

Microsoft Fabric is a unified analytics platform, an evolution of several existing Microsoft analytics products consolidated into a single administrative environment and licensing model which makes licensing, development, and administration much simpler.

Microsoft Azure

Azure is a public cloud offering from Microsoft. With an ever expanding marketplace of components and services available, you can build tailor made data platform solutions precisely to your specification.

Microsoft Power Platform

A powerful suite of low/no-code tools, empowering you to build your own custom bnusiness applications, integrations, and automations

Azure AI Foundry

Design and run bespoke, enterprise-grade agentic solutions, combining large language models with your own data, orchestration, and the controls to deploy them safely at scale.

Microsoft Copilot Studio

Build, customise, and deploy your own copilots and AI agents, grounded in your business data and connected to the systems your people use every day.

How do we work with you?

Whether it's purely strategic advice, implementation and development work to spec, fractional business intelligence support, or a fully outsourced data function, we offer a range of flexible engagement patterns to suit every business, budget, and need.

Pay As You Go

DAY RATE

£1,250/day

Flexible delivery as and when you need it

No Commitment
Time and Materials
Use us when you need us

Fixed Project Fee

PRICE

£On Request

Everything locked in up front

Fixed Deliverables
Fixed Fee
Clear timescales

Retained Service

FROM

£1,095/month

Cost effective and flexible resource augmentation

12 Month Agreement
Minimum 1 day/month
Discounted day rate
Predictable monthly billing
Flexible delivery
Easy top-up
Discounted training

We also specialise in delivering blended engagements, which combine strategic advice, consultative delivery, and training.

What does this look like for you?

Everyone is different so we tailor our approach to reflect that by listening to you, understanding where you're starting, where you're aiming for, and what your priorities are. This is just an example of what a typical journey often looks like with us, yours may be different but the starting point is the same - a chat!

1 Hour - An introductory call with one of our solution architects to learn about your requirements and help us identify the best next steps for you.

Typically 3-5 days - A deep dive investigation of your business systems and data estate, your people and their skills, and your business needs and aspirations. We use this to put together a solid technical strategy and implementation plan for you.

Typically 5 Days - Particularly with larger projects, it is useful to demonstrate the technical feasibility and business value of a project before committing to long term spend. Not always necessary, but can help to firm up some variables and to measure consumption demands which can be difficult to predict in cloud environments.

Typically 10-20 Days - This really will be different for everyone and can vary widely, but we aim to work in short cycles that deliver quick results with scope for iterative onward development and flexibility to change requirements.

Typically 3-5 Days/Month - Once people get an appetite for data, it tends to keep growing and with it, requirements keep evolving. Our retainer service enables you to keep a highly skilled data team on hand to respond to those changing requirements under a predictable billing model to suit your budget.

Free Discovery Workshop

Data Discovery Project

Proof of Concept/Value (PoC/PoV)

Minimum Viable Product (MVP)

Retained Consultancy Service

Fractional Data Team Consultancy Services