Information for innovation

Sphere has three decades' experience designing, building and maintaining health and care business intelligence solutions.

Our work ranges from complex data migration between case management and financial systems to geospatial models of care economies.

We use enterprise-grade information platforms typically found in much larger organisations.

Sphere Intelligence contributes to the success of all our health and care commissioning projects.

Your project with our technology

We use our platform to find and analyse the data required in the early stages of a consulting project. In these projects, we quickly define information governance so that we can safely and legally process your confidential information in our digital estate. This frees your information teams for other work and accelerates the project from the outset.

At the end of each project, we like to hand over the business intelligence tools that we develop for it, at no extra cost, so you continue to get value from them.

For example, in Edinburgh, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire we built bespoke datawarehouses of local care markets and presented them in searchable care maps.

We call these applications "careplaces". They help commissioners with planning and market oversight and brokers find current, accurate information about price and availability of care. Some customers use these tools long after our work with them concludes.

Your project with your technology

Some customers prefer us to work exclusively in their information systems. We like to enhance those systems with new sources of information, for example, new reports or functional enhancements of case management and finance applications.

In these projects, we work closely with your IT and information teams, sharing our methods and experience.

Whether we use your systems or ours, customers say our legacy is more reliable, accurate and useful information.

Read more about our business intelligence projects in case studies.

Careplaces as a service

We are developing a new, self-service intelligence platform called careplaces.ai. It's about local care economies, the cost of deprivation and opportunities to improve local public services.

You can use it by subscription, with or without our consultancy services. Read more on the careplaces page.