Your Data Guides
Assess
You can’t improve what you haven’t measured. Our Assess pillar gives you an honest, evidence-based baseline of your current data management maturity, benchmarked against recognised industry standards. The output isn’t just a scorecard: it’s a clear, prioritised roadmap showing exactly where the gaps are and what it takes to close them, so every next step in your data strategy is grounded in fact rather than guesswork.
Our Approach
A Structured Evaluation of Your data estate
The Assess service is a framework-aligned evaluation of your data management maturity across the full lifecycle. We benchmark against DCAM, the Data Management Capability Assessment Model, and map the findings to your specific regulatory context, data management goals and AI programme ambitions, to answer the question most boards are now asking: are we actually ready for AI?
Most organisations commissioning an assessment share the same underlying situation. Policies exist but aren’t embedded, tools are deployed but underutilised, and teams are accountable without real clarity on ownership or process. At the same time, compliance exposure is increasing, AI initiatives are stalling, and the board is asking questions that can’t be answered with confidence.
Our Assess service gives you the visibility to change that, and produces a practical output designed to be put to work immediately rather than filed away.
The Data Management Assessment
It runs as a single structured engagement, with a clear outcome and a fixed price, that aligns with your business priorities.
Week 1
Design & Enable
Align on scope, stakeholders, use cases, and technology landscape. Map existing tools and data domains.
Blueprint the discovery approach and confirm assessment criteria.
Weeks 2-3
Analysis & Reporting
Benchmark maturity against DCAM. Produce domain heatmap, gap analysis, and risk view. Validate findings with key stakeholders before finalising.
Week 4
Roadmap & Handoff
Deliver a prioritised action plan. Identify quick wins and a longer-term capability roadmap. Board-ready output and working-level detail in one document.
Who this is for
Your organisation is subject to FCA model risk guidance, Consumer Duty, Solvency II, ICO enforcement, or EU AI Act obligations.
Board Pressure
The board is asking for a view on AI readiness or data risk that you can’t currently provide.
AI Programme Underway
An AI programme is underway but the data foundation hasn’t been formally assessed.
Audit Risks
The need to close the gap following internal or external audit risks that need to be addressed.
Underused Tooling
You have governance tools deployed (including BigID) but limited confidence in coverage or utilisation.
Need a Starting Point
You don’t know where to start, and need a clear, independent view before committing to a programme.
What You Leave With
Clarity You Can Act On
Every Assessment produces the same core set of outputs, whichever focus you choose, so you know exactly what you are getting before the engagement begins.
Built around a shared structure and benchmarked consistently against DCAM, the results are designed to be understood by your board and put to work by your teams from day one, with nothing vague and nothing left for you to interpret.
Current Posture Report
A clear view of your data management maturity across the full lifecycle, scored against DCAM components and benchmarked against sector norms.
Domain Heatmap
A domain by domain view of where capability is strong, developing or critical, giving data owners and the board a shared language for risk.
Gap Analysis
Specific gaps mapped to your compliance obligations and AI programme requirements, not a generic framework comparison.
Prioritised Action Plan
A sequenced roadmap of quick wins you can act on immediately, alongside longer-term capability investments prioritised by risk and business impact.
Ready to Start?
Make Your Data Vision A Reality
Every board is asking whether the organisation is ready for AI, and increasingly, whether the data behind it can be trusted. The Assess service gives you a clear, independent answer, built on a framework your regulators already recognise.
At Nephos, we don’t just hand over a report and walk away. We help you turn the findings into a programme you can act on, working alongside you from roadmap through to delivery with our managed services. That’s what makes the Data Management Assessment a starting point worth taking seriously.
