Our stated objective is simple: to be the world leader in data services.

This is not easy. To be a world leader in anything requires notoriety, reliability, performance and ultimately, dominance.

But we have a plan. As we close out 2021, there are certain things to look out for Calligo laying the groundwork for in 2022 …

More acquisitions

To date, we have completed 10 acquisitions across 7 countries. Our latest was Decisive Data earlier this year – our first data insights provider.

We added remarkable skills in Data Architecture, Data Engineering, Data Analytics, Data Science and Data Visualization, not to mention strong partner collaborations with the likes of Snowflake,Tableau, Fivetran and Matillion, that we have already deepened in the months since. We also inherited household brand data services clients – relationships that have without exception expanded, often into new service areas.

We intend to continue in this vein in 2022, seeking out new data services acquisition targets in the US and the UK that will add talent, skills, capabilities, presence, capacity, clients, and most importantly, ideas.

Deepening of our pan-Atlantic capabilities and presence

To ensure we are considered a world leader, we intend to strengthen our data services presence on both sides of the Atlantic.

Of course, this is strongly linked to our intention to complete more acquisitions, but it is also a sign of our intent to grow organically in both regions too. Recruitment, customer acquisition, delivery, partnerships – we intend to grow in every meaningful way in both North America and the UK, taking full advantage of timezones, talent pools and each region’s natural aspiration to draw every competitive advantage from their data.

Spearhead the data services industry

Just as we have for the previous service industries we have evolved in and outgrown before, we intend to become the most renowned, authoritative and influential voice within data services – the experts to whom the market looks for best practice and insight.

We have an advantage over others here. We have a longer heritage in data services than most. We have been equipping enterprises and organizations with the tools and capabilities they have needed to make best, safest use of their data for years.

Even before the arrival of GDPR, we have been guiding clients in their respectful, adherent and ethical use of personal data. We also pre-empted the market’s heightened sensitivity over where their data was physically located, and addressed those concerns by building a high-performance data platform that guaranteed data residency, long before any other cloud service provider had even realised its importance, let alone could deliver on it. And we were first in the world to launch a managed machine learning service that made data science reliably accessible to the mid-tier and enterprises.

And so we will use this heritage alongside our creativity to educate, challenge and even inspire data leaders within ambitious organizations, showing them why and how to turn their data from merely having potential to instead being demonstrably the most valuable asset they have ever possessed.

2022 is destined to be another transformative year for Calligo. We aim to continue our surge into the data services space, bringing new capabilities and perspectives to the market alongside remarkable experience and skills, laying the foundations for our ultimate goal of being the natural world leader. And we have every intention of starting immediately – watch this space.

The Data Privacy Periodic Table – our most significant update yet

Since our last update in January, there has been an unprecedented amount of activity in the data privacy world. And yes, we probably do say that every time!

New laws have passed in Virginia and Colorado. The UK’s post-Brexit EU adequacy was confirmed. Plus of course, the EU’s significant changes to Standard Contractual Clauses and the reawakening of the debates over Identity Verification, especially in the context of social media.

These industry landmarks and others, plus the way that data privacy has become – quite rightly – a fundamental part of topical conversations surrounding vaccinations and identity, all combine to require us to make the most substantial changes to the Periodic Table of Data Privacy yet.

Calligo’s tenth acquisition is its first in the US and rapidly expands its data science and data insights capabilities.

Today, Calligo announces the acquisition of Decisive Data, a pioneer in data analytics, data science and visualization.This is a significant acquisition for Calligo as it not only increases the resources and capabilities of our Data Insights team, but it also creates the most capable, accessible and compliant data insights service for modern businesses.Who is Decisive Data?Decisive Data was established in 2008 in Redmond, Washington, and now helps some of the largest global brands in technology, retail, telecoms, healthcare and other verticals to use deep data insights to make critical decisions and realize better outcomes in efficiency, growth and profitability.

What does the combination of Calligo and Decisive Data mean?

Firstly, combining Decisive Data’s longstanding track record in data science with our own accelerates the development and broadens the skillsets of our established Data Insights Services team. But what makes this offering special in the market is the combination of the two businesses’ complementary heritages: data science and data safety. Customers will receive not only powerful insights from which to make commercially-impactful decisions, but those insights will now come with the crucial reassurance that the data they are based on is secure, observes data privacy laws and is treated according to any industry governance requirements. All this combined makes Calligo the natural choice for organizations of all sizes seeking innovative and strategic understanding of their data.

“I’m very pleased to welcome Decisive Data team members, customers and partners to Calligo, and am extremely excited about the capabilities being added to the Calligo portfolio. Businesses today are under tremendous pressure to maximize their capabilities and efficiencies as budgets tighten and markets become tougher. Data and its intelligent exploitation is the well-known solution, but only if done so responsibly, safely and compliantly. With today’s addition of Decisive Data’s talented team members and its technology to Calligo, we will accelerate businesses’ ability to cost-effectively ramp up their data insight efforts – all while ensuring that their data remains secure, private and observes all applicable data regulations.” Julian Box, Founder and CEO of Calligo

“We are thrilled to be joining a like-minded company that has already established itself as a global voice for the centrality of data privacy and data governance in business. As the use of data becomes more complex, especially in a fragmented regulatory environment, data-first thinking must sit at the foundation of every business decision. Julian and his team totally understand this, and I cannot wait to see what’s next. The incorporation of Decisive Data into Calligo is a win for both our companies and a win for all of our customers.” Alissa Seiple, CEO of Decisive Data

How does Data Insights fit alongside Calligo’s other services?

Calligo’s longstanding mission has always been to deliver a unique portfolio of services that supports a business’ more productive, more profitable and safer use of data throughout its entire lifecycle. Data Insights Services is arguably the most crucial part of this – and the most differentiating for Calligo as a service provider. While Calligo’s Managed Cloud Services and IT Managed Services ensure that data is made reliably available to every user, within a full framework of security and governance, Data Insights Services then allow that data to be put to best commercial use through machine learning. This allows businesses to pursue the maximum benefits in productivity and profitability.

Meanwhile, Calligo’s longstanding expertise in Data Privacy Services means that businesses have the confidence that from the point of creation and with every interaction, data is processed in full observance of data privacy requirements.

It is a focus and a combination of services that sets Calligo apart from any other managed services provider – and this acquisition accelerates that leadership of the market.

Calligo and Reed Smith announce joint agreement to serve clients with data protection needs in US, UK and Europe

Calligo and Reed Smith LLP – a dynamic international law firm dedicated to helping clients move their businesses forward – today announced a non-exclusive joint services agreement to market and jointly deliver data protection, governance and privacy services to one another’s clients.

Calligo launches world’s first managed service to make machine learning accessible to any business

Fully managed machine learning service handles entire management, cleanliness and governance of data.

Avoids costs associated with data science recruitment.

Delivers more accurate insights twice as fast as AWS and Google.

Today Calligo announces it has completed its fourth acquisition of 2020 – and ninth in three years – with the purchase of Network Integrity Services, a UK-wide IT managed services provider specialising in managed IT, cloud and security services with locations in Manchester, Birmingham, Leicester and Hemel Hempstead.

Today, we announced that Calligo acquired Itomic Voice & Data Ltd., a Cork- and Dublin-based IT managed services provider, specialising in delivering IT solutions and maintenance and managed Microsoft 365 and Azure services nationwide.

Yesterday, during a special virtual gala, Calligo was named amongst the CDN Top 100 Solution Providers in Canada.

The annual ranking is produced by Channel Daily News (CDN), the most widely read publication for the IT solution provider community in Canada for more than thirty years, with data verified by IT business intelligence and analysis leader IDC Canada.

The rankings process required each solution provider to submit its strategy, service breakdowns, revenues, examples of customer engagements and its commentary on the challenges the service provider industry faces now and in the future. These submissions were then individually assessed and ranked by the CDN and IDC panel.

This was Calligo’s first appearance in the CDN Top 100 Solution Providers, joining the list in 71st position. But more importantly, Calligo stood out as the only IT service provider within the entire Top 100 to have integrated data privacy services into its entire portfolio, including IT managed services.

 
“Our position in the CDN Top 100 shows the quality and scale of our service delivery, underpinned by our ‘Customer First’ mindset. But it is our difference from everyone else on the list that is most striking and most revealing about our future prospects,”
 

commented Julian Box, Founder & CEO of Calligo.

“The way in which businesses seek to use their data is constantly changing, whether to innovate, grow or become more efficient. Technology’s role in this is simply to enable those ambitions – the value is in the data.

So while other service providers focus on merely supporting and securing their customers’ devices and networks, we instead aim to help our clients use their data to work smarter and innovate faster – whether through its continual access and availability, its security and data privacy adherence, or its intelligent use. It is this difference that has led to us growing and retaining such a customer base, both in Canada and globally, and that guarantees we are able to meet their needs as they change.”

 
 Why is this distinction important?
 

Data is any business’ most valuable asset. It should sit at the heart of every interaction they have and every decision they make – large or small. But while data is essential for businesses to thrive, it is often also frustratingly invisible, inaccessible or irrelevant. And fraught with risk if it is lost, mismanaged or not surrounded by the right data privacy and security protections.

Calligo understands this, and by focusing on the root of the issue – the data – rather than the technology it inhabits, we are able to help our customers better understand how data flows into, around and out of the business, and then better control it to become more productive, more profitable, more secure and more adherent to privacy obligations.

Of course, proactive maintenance of the technology environment is a vital and substantial part of this – and one that we are proud to say we excel in – but to limit our services to only this and to ignore the rest of our customers’ data needs would be to miss the point, and our customers would miss the opportunity to grow.

Calligo is a “Tech Growth Business of the Year” finalist at the National Technology Awards

Yesterday, the shortlist for the National Technology Awards was announced, and included Calligo in the “Tech Growth Business of the Year” category.  

The National Technology Awards are the most comprehensive celebration of technology, celebrating the pioneers of the industry. The judges were looking for companies that are in full growth mode, and are expanding by virtue of excellent service, products and insight.   

Calligo was made a finalist primarily on account of its geographical, financial and technical growth over the last years. But Calligo was also shortlisted because of its vision in basing a portfolio of managed data services around a central concept of data privacy, and the quality of the subsequent delivery of each of those services.   

“The National Technology Awards are probably one of the broadest in scope of all technology awards. Spanning from B2B to B2C, and across all industries, the sheer range of organization that the judges will have considered for this category is so much greater than for any other award scheme, which makes being a Tech Growth Business of the Year finalist all the more special. This nomination is testament to the great work the team has put in over the last few years to ensure that our growth plans have been met and that we do not lose sight of our customers’ needs in the process.”

– Julian Box, Founder and CEO of Calligo.

This shortlisting follows last week’s triple shortlisting in the European IT & Software Excellence Awards, and last year’s Global MSP of the Year win.