Unolabs marks five years of enterprise data engineering
Founded in 2021, Unolabs now delivers from the United Kingdom and Pune, with engagements reaching Hong Kong and Melbourne.
London, United Kingdom — September 1, 2026 — Unolabs Limited marks five years since its founding in 2021. The firm delivers from the United Kingdom and Pune, with engagements reaching Hong Kong and Melbourne.
Key facts
- Founded: 2021
- UK entity: Unolabs Limited, registered in England and Wales, company number 13424804 — Data Controller and publisher of this website
- Delivery entity: Unolabs Technologies Private Limited, Pune, CIN U72200PN2021PTC204495
- Registered office: 6 Wingfield Road, Kingston Upon Thames, KT2 5LR, United Kingdom
- Locations: London, Pune, Hong Kong, Melbourne
- Published services: 24, across strategy, data engineering, platforms, SAP, AI and governance
- Published case record: 7 engagements
What the work has been
The engagements that defined the first five years were platform separations, governed lakehouse builds and SAP estate modernisation — work where the hard part is rarely the tooling.
| Engagement | What it was | Published outcome |
|---|---|---|
| Fortune-100 retailer | Data separation behind a cloud-native demerger | ≈$2.5M migration savings; sovereign data foundation |
| Global beverages leader | Replacing a 70-FTE manual harmonisation process with a governed lakehouse | £3.3M savings; 70-FTE process automated; 40% faster time-to-analytics |
| Global agri-science enterprise | Consolidating four SAP ECC instances onto one HANA platform | 4-to-1 consolidation; 40% reduced onboarding effort |
| Global beauty leader | A federated data fabric across a fragmented eCommerce and retail estate | Client-estimated 30–40% faster analytics delivery |
| Global automotive leader | A multi-domain platform for connected vehicle, CRM and sales data | Client-estimated 35–45% faster analytics delivery |
| Industrial engineering firm | Portfolio benchmarking with explainable AI | Structured competitive assessment; no figure published |
| Large automotive organisation | Explainable lead scoring for offline conversion | Directional conversion improvement; no figure published |
How those figures were validated
None of them was audited independently, and the case studies say so individually. The ≈$2.5M was validated with the client's own finance function during the programme; it is not a recurring run-rate saving. The £3.3M was validated under the shared-risk commercial model agreed for that engagement. The 40% time-to-analytics figure is measured against a baseline of manual review, and the 40% onboarding reduction reflects reuse on one estate rather than a portable rate. The two ranges marked client-estimated were assessed by the client against their own prior estate, not against an independent benchmark. Two engagements publish no number at all, because there is none worth publishing.
That list is deliberate. A five-year note is the easiest place in the world to round figures upward.
Where we deliver from
The UK company is the contracting and publishing entity; delivery and operations run through Unolabs Technologies Private Limited in Pune. Engineering works across the UK, India, Australia and Hong Kong. The split is a legal and data-protection structure, not a marketing one: the UK entity is Data Controller, the Indian entity Processor.
What we would flag
Five years is long enough to have opinions and short enough that they are still being revised. Three that have survived contact with delivery:
Dependency mapping is delivery work
Not pre-project overhead. It consumes real calendar time before any visible migration progress, which makes it the first phase compressed when a steering committee wants movement — and the compression is what surfaces later as scope.
The estate you scope is not the estate you migrate
On a multi-year programme the target moves under you. Plans that assume a frozen source system are describing a system that will not exist by the time the work lands.
Most of what is measured is never read
In mature warehouse estates the largest bucket of objects is the one that never runs at all. Migrating it anywhere, on any path, is the most expensive habit in the field.
The clearest of the three is the first, and it is the one clients most often decline to fund.
What is next
The nearest fixed date in this market is not ours. Mainstream maintenance for SAP BW 7.5 ends on 31 December 2027, with extended maintenance to 2030 at a premium; SAP ECC 6 (EHP6–8) shares that date. Most of the next two years of work in the SAP estate is already determined by it.
The commitment that carries forward is the delivery shape rather than a target: a first production wave in 16–24 weeks, and a published record where each outcome states how it was validated and what it does not prove.
About Unolabs
Unolabs Limited is a Data & AI first engineering consultancy founded in 2021, building governed data platforms, production-ready AI systems and deep SAP modernisation for large enterprises. Delivery and operations run through Unolabs Technologies Private Limited, Pune, India. The firm delivers from London and Pune, with engagements reaching Hong Kong and Melbourne.
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