Oka-Bi.
Privacy Prioritised.
Not an afterthought.
"Data privacy shouldn't be an afterthought bolted on by a third-party vendor - it should be built into the architecture from the start."
David Hill, 2011, E-Health Insider Live, NEC, Birmingham
Our Vision
We power the heaviest transformations through automation, trusted relationships and privacy by design, empowering every organisation.
Our adaptive, autonomous and federated platform sets the tone for the world’s most powerful data solutions: where privacy is never an afterthought and sovereignty is uncompromising, enabled by default.
Built for customer ambition at scale and global accessibility, we enable advanced data integration, turning complexity into opportunity.
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From local foundations to international reach, we deliver the future of secure, sovereign data integration: today.
Our Story
David Hill spent 8 years as an NHS data warehouse architect watching the same pattern repeat itself. Organisations handling millions of sensitive patient records were outsourcing their privacy infrastructure to external vendors, with little in return.
Paying per personal transaction, in black box solutions, accepting server-based technologies they didn't control, and spending money that, in a public health system, belongs on the front line of care.
David had personal reasons to care. He felt strongly that preventable data expenditure was drawing resources away from patient care - it was vital to act. Budgets were putting a strain on health care digital transformation too. He decided to do something about it, and set about architecting and delivering the UKs most comprehensive and forward thinking data automation platform, secure-by-design, resilient, and utilising the latest data management techniques, with the sole purpose of de-risking organisations in the UK and beyond against the pitfalls of non-compliance with the many and varied data privacy statutes, globally.
"Oka-Bi is my life's work. It brings every aspect of my belief system and my technical experience together in a way I could not have done at any other point in my career."
David Hill, CEO & Co-Founder
NHS Nottinghamshire
Our on-premises privacy and warehouse automation software protected the identities of over 1 million patients across the Nottinghamshire region, with ~30% faster data build times.
Imperial College
Biomedical Research Centre
We enabled their own NHS IT staff to build out a data warehouse internally, eliminating outsourcing costs and delivering the same ~30% speed improvement.
Magic Circle Law Firm
Our on-premises privacy and warehouse automation software built a privacy enabled BI stack in 3 days, integrating partner billing and disbursements into a 5 fact table, 20 dimension Analysis Services Cube.
Those weren't pilots. They were full deployments, trusted with live personal data at scale.
The engagements reached a natural conclusion, the software delivered what it promised, and the organisations moved forward with it embedded in their infrastructure.
Oka-Bi is the evolution of that work. The same capability, rebuilt for the Azure cloud - handling far greater data volumes, with no per-transaction vendor costs, and now delivering a minimum 40% speed improvement on data platform builds.
For financial services firms, regulated industries, and any organisation where data privacy is a governance requirement rather than a checkbox, we offer something most SaaS companies at our stage cannot: proof that it works, at scale, in some of the most sensitive data environments in the UK.