Resources

Police forces across the UK are building impressive digital tools, but disconnected systems mean good ideas rarely travel beyond force borders. This piece sets out three practical steps: sharing proven tools through a central hub, adopting a common data standard, and connecting platforms in real time. The goal is to link what already works locally, not replace it, so every force benefits.

With over 90% of reported offences now involving a digital element, police forces face a growing backlog of seized devices that specialist labs can’t clear fast enough. This article looks at the causes, from untriaged bulk submissions to skills shortages, and sets out how automated triage, standardised workflows and targeted upskilling can help forces turn digital evidence into usable intelligence faster.

In this short 20 minute session from Digital Leaders AI Week 2026, our data scientist and engineer Maja Strawinska uses moving house as a way to explain how to plan and govern a migration of national-scale, citizen-level data.

Butterfly Data has launched an internal book club to support continuous learning into its culture. Guided by the principle “Read. Reflect. Discuss. Apply.”, it aims to connect colleagues across teams and turn new ideas into practical value for clients.

techUK has published its Policing Solutions Book, a collection of member responses to the NPCC Policing Problem Book. Butterfly Data contributed responses to two of the 13 problems: digital evidence, and data sharing across forces.

Legacy IT is now a named government priority, with departmental targets, parliamentary scrutiny and ringfenced funding. This whitepaper sets out the scale of the challenge, the compounding costs of inaction, what good migration looks like in practice, and how to make the internal case for investment.

Most data owners already know where their data problems sit. What they often lack is the evidence to prove it when budgets are being decided. This article looks at the real cost of working without that evidence, the six areas a data maturity baseline should cover and why involving operational staff gives a truer picture than asking leadership alone.

Butterfly Data welcomes Ben Clare, Eleanor Dilks and Luke Rose as its 2026 graduate cohort, bringing backgrounds in economics, natural sciences and computational chemistry to the team.

This short self-assessment helps you understand how your organisation is doing across six key dimensions of data maturity. It takes around 8 minutes to complete.

Quickly access our G-Cloud 15 services on the Digital Marketplace. Our 23 G-Cloud services span four areas of capability - data foundations, cloud and platform engineering, integration and quality, and analytics and AI - and can be found under Lot 3.

Butterfly Data's principal IT consultant, Henry Newman-Burke, and data scientist, Maja Strawinska will be presenting at the Public Sector Connect Data and AI Summit 2026, sharing expert insight on governing data migration across large-scale public sector programmes.

Butterfly Data has been awarded a place on the Government Commercial Agency's (GCA) G-Cloud 15 framework as part of Lot 3 (Cloud Support), giving public sector buyers a compliant route to procure our data strategy, cloud migration, integration and analytics services through the Digital Marketplace.

Butterfly Data has joined techUK, the UK's largest tech trade body, representing 1,000+ organisations shaping public sector digital transformation. Membership puts Butterfly Data at the table for working groups and policy discussions on data, AI and public sector tech.

Digital sovereignty has moved from a niche concern to a strategic priority for governments across Europe. In the UK, efforts have focused largely on sovereign AI while a far larger lever has gone underused: the government’s own purchasing power. This article looks at the state of public procurement, sets the UK against how European neighbours are meeting the moment and argues for a national digital sovereignty strategy and a bolder approach to innovation. 

Most departments invest in AI before fixing the data underneath it — and that's backwards. We break down why the UK AI Playbook names data quality as foundational, what happens when governance tries to compensate for bad data instead, and how to actually sequence the work.

Government teams aren't short on knowledge, but they can be short on quick, reliable access to it. Guidance sits scattered across drives, intranets and the memories of whoever's been in the role longest. We explore how Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and no-code tools like SAS RAM can turn that labyrinth into answers you can actually trust and trace.

Choosing the right data consultancy partner matters more than most procurement processes reveal. This guide sets out the questions public sector and regulated organisations should ask before signing.

Butterfly Data is growing, and we couldn't be more pleased about who is joining us. Meet the six new team members who have come on board so far in 2026, bringing expertise across data engineering, DevOps, governance and cloud platforms, alongside career histories that span academic research, financial services, cruise ship IT operations and beyond.