L&Q Group: Building better with clean data

Overview: L&Q Group: Building better with clean data

Data migration is rarely straightforward, but partnering with Experian is.

L&Q, one of the UK’s largest housing associations, focuses on developing affordable homes, managing properties and supporting communities. To handle the extensive data generated from this, L&Q relied on Experian’s services.

By combining migration with data quality efforts, L&Q have experienced a seamless migration and established a strong foundation for future growth.

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Challenge overview

In 2022, L&Q began their data migration journey, concentrating on two main areas.

Due to the combination of multifaceted processes in place, this project was far from straightforward, and as such, to ensure the best outcome, L&Q enlisted the expertise of Experian.

Challenges
  • Migrating to a new property management system
  • Transferring 2 core finance systems with over 15 instances, into a single cohesive solution
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Company Bio:

The L&Q Group is one of the UK’s leading housing associations and developers. They provide housing and related services, primarily in London and the South East, managing over 105,000 homes and housing around 250,000 people. L&Q’s vision is to ensure everyone has access to a quality home that enables them to live a better life.

Established:1963
Housed:Approximately 250,000
We did not have the internal expertise to do this to a high standard and so I was glad that we had Experian there to help navigate the complexity.
Scott Markham, Director of Transformation and Change

Solution overview

With Data Excellence at the heart of what we do, L&Q first undertook a full data cleanse.

By loading only high-quality data into new systems, L&Q laid a strong foundation for future success and mitigated potential data issues.

This, in turn, ensured the team had the capacity to handle any operational problems
post-launch.

Data quality challenges identified by Aperture Data Studio:

  1. Missing data
  2. Contradictory data
  3. Duplicate data
  4. Incorrect lookup value
  5. Invalid characters
  6. Invalid format
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Results
  • Successfully loaded over 125 million records with an average accuracy exceeding 99%
  • Migration cutover reduced from weeks to hours
  • End-to-end security upheld
Solutions
L&Q Group: Building better with clean data

L&Q Group: Building better with clean data

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