Insights & resource library
The reference library for enterprise data supply.
Fifty in-depth guides for the teams that source, buy, govern and deliver external data, procurement and data leaders, engineering teams and public-sector buyers running tenders. Each guide is written to be genuinely useful, with practical frameworks and references to the regulations and authorities that matter.
Strategy & Procurement
Compliance & Governance
Delivery & Technical
Sector deep-dives
Data domains
01, Strategy & Procurement
The complete guide to enterprise external data sourcing
Building a data supply model for a public tender or RFP
Buying vs building: a data procurement decision framework
How to write a data requirement specification (with template)
The total cost of external data: the three components
Vendor risk and supplier due diligence for data
From proof of concept to production data supply
KPIs for an external data programme
02, Compliance & Governance
The EU Data Act explained for data buyers
GDPR for external data: lawful bases, roles and transfers
The Data Governance Act and data intermediation, explained
NIS2 and ISO/IEC 27001: governance for data supply
Anonymisation vs pseudonymisation vs aggregation
Data provenance and lineage for regulated buyers
Cross-border data transfers and data sovereignty in the EU
Data minimisation and privacy-by-design in sourcing
Data licensing 101: terms, rights and provenance for buyers
03, Delivery & Technical
File formats for data delivery: Parquet, CSV, JSON, Excel
Synthetic data: techniques, fidelity and governance
Real-time data delivery: API, MQTT and streaming patterns
Batch vs near-real-time vs real-time: choosing cadence
Geospatial data formats and standards (GeoJSON, GeoParquet, OGC)
Data catalogues and metadata for sourced datasets
Data contracts and SLAs for external data supply
Data quality: dimensions, validation and acceptance criteria
Data for AI and ML training: sourcing, rights and augmentation
04, Sector deep-dives
Water & utilities data: smart metering, leakage and demand
Electricity & energy data: load profiles, renewables and grid signals
IoT & smart-city data: telemetry, air quality and occupancy
Transport & mobility data: traffic flows, freight and fleet telemetry
Logistics & supply-chain data: shipments, ports and freight rates
Retail & consumer data: footfall, transactions and catchment
Financial services & insurance data: credit, ESG and climate risk
Real estate & construction data: transactions, permits and valuations
Manufacturing & industrial data: machine telemetry and OEE
Agriculture & food data: yields, soil, weather and satellite
Environment & climate data: emissions, flood, drought and EO
Healthcare & life-sciences data: anonymised, synthetic and real-world
Telecommunications data: coverage, performance and aggregated mobility
Public-sector data: census, procurement and open data
05, Data domains
ESG & climate-risk data sourcing for finance and insurance
Earth observation & satellite data for enterprise (Copernicus/Sentinel)
Alternative data for investment and risk
Mobility & telco-derived footfall data and privacy
Energy-transition data: EV charging, storage and carbon intensity
Water scarcity & flood-risk data for infrastructure
Supply-chain risk & disruption data
Demographic & socio-economic data (Eurostat, census)
Weather & meteorological data for operations
Market & pricing data sourcing
06 · Extended guides
The EU AI Act for data and model providers
ePrivacy, cookies and consent for data
Data protection impact assessments (DPIAs) for external data
Data retention and deletion for sourced data
Personal data breach response for data buyers
Data integration patterns: ETL, ELT and CDC
Master data management and entity resolution
Record linkage and data matching
Time-series data: sourcing and delivery
Data observability and monitoring external feeds
POI and places data: sourcing and use
Address and geocoding data
Company and corporate registry data
Maritime and AIS vessel data
Aviation and flight data (ADS-B)
Web and online data: scraping, terms and compliance
Patents and intellectual-property data
Sanctions, PEP and adverse-media data
Carbon credits and voluntary carbon market data
Tourism and hospitality data
Demand forecasting with external data
Fraud detection data and signals
Credit scoring and affordability data
Site selection and location intelligence
Predictive maintenance data
Waste and recycling data
Mining and metals data
Forestry and land-use data
Fisheries and ocean data
Smart buildings and facilities data
Adtech and advertising data
Media and content consumption data
Education and skills data
Payments and transaction data
Insurance and actuarial data
Pharma R&D and clinical data
Genomics and biobank data
Gaming and esports data
Sports data and analytics
Space and satellite-operations data
Data onboarding and trials
FinOps for data: cost optimisation
A data governance operating model for external data
UK GDPR and post-Brexit data
International data laws: a buyer overview
Data clean rooms for privacy-safe collaboration
European data spaces explained
Data marketplaces vs managed supply
Data sharing agreements and partnerships
Open data strategy for enterprises
Vector data and embeddings for AI
RAG and retrieval data sourcing
Data labelling and annotation
Data versioning and reproducibility
Graph data and knowledge graphs
Smart grid and distributed energy resource data
Hydrogen and new-energy data
District heating and cooling data
Rail and public-transit data
Ports and terminal data
Geological and subsurface data
Air-traffic and airspace data
Cyber-threat intelligence data
Social and sentiment data
Reviews and reputation data
Cold chain and temperature-controlled logistics data
Automotive and connected-vehicle data
Telematics and usage-based insurance data
Parking and kerbside data
Micromobility data
Procurement and tender intelligence data
Trade and customs data
Economic indicators and macro data
Real-time economic nowcasting data
Commodity fundamentals data
Property valuation and AVM data
Property and land registry data
Construction materials and pricing data
Energy prices and tariffs data
Air quality and emissions monitoring data
Population mobility and commuting data
Health and wellness consumer data
Workforce and HR market data
B2B firmographic and contact data
Technographic data
Biodiversity and nature data
Catastrophe modelling data
Wildfire risk data
Soil and land-degradation data
Energy performance certificate (EPC) data
Weather derivatives and parametric data
Renewable resource assessment data
Grid asset and outage data
Water quality monitoring data
Noise pollution data
Construction project pipeline data
Building permits and planning data
Infrastructure asset data
Gas network and market data
EV charging network data
Census microdata and surveys
Election and political data
Crime and safety data
Housing and affordability data
Healthcare capacity and demand data
Rental and housing market data
Consumer lending market data
Insurance claims and loss data
Payments fraud and chargeback data
Identity verification data
Reference data and code lists
Data enrichment services
Data cleansing and deduplication
Data normalisation and standardisation
Data format conversion
API management for data feeds
Secure data delivery environments
Data residency and sovereign delivery
Streaming infrastructure for data delivery
SFTP and secure file delivery
Data subscriptions and feed management
Data ROI and the business case
Data literacy and adoption
Data stewardship roles
Data ethics for sourcing
Aerial and drone imagery data
LiDAR and elevation data
Street-level imagery data
Point-of-sale and retail transaction feeds
Loyalty and CRM-derived data
Open banking and account information data
Geodemographic segmentation data
Postal and delivery data
Utility consumption benchmarking data
Smart metering data across utilities
Satellite connectivity data
Broadband and connectivity coverage data
Spectrum and network capacity data
Data center and cloud market data
Semiconductor and electronics market data
Geopolitical risk data
Export-control and trade-compliance data
Country and sovereign risk data
Supply-chain ESG and due-diligence data
Circular-economy and materials-flow data
Legal analytics and litigation data
Scientific and research data
Regulatory and standards data
Grants and funding data
Charity and nonprofit data
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