Aligned Assets

Aligned Assets Limited

Type	Private
Industry	Software Gazetteer Solutions Address Management Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Founded	Guildford, Surrey, (1996)
Headquarters	Woking, Surrey, UK
Key people	Andy Hird (Co-Owner & Managing Director), Dinesh Thanigasalam (Co-Owner & Commercial Director)
Website	www.aligned-assets.co.uk/

Aligned Assets' are a UK-based company from Surrey that develops address management, gazetteer software and Augmented Reality solutions for local authorities, the emergency services and the commercial sector. They almost exclusively work with the AddressBase products from the Ordnance Survey.

History

Aligned Assets were formed in 1996 by Carl Nunn, later joined by Phil Gee in 1997 and Mike Saunt in 1998, who all met whilst working together for MapInfo Corporation (now Pitney Bowes MapInfo). Originally working as MapInfo resellers and Geographical Information System (GIS) developers, the company saw early success by securing contracts with companies such as the BBC, Experian and Orange (brand).

Aligned Assets moved into address management with the development in 1997 of the BS7666 Toolbox that was built on behalf of MapInfo to assist UK Local Authorities in the development of the National Land and Property Gazetteer (NLPG).

They currently specialize in the gazetteer and address management market working both in the local government sector and with the emergency services. They are the chosen supplier to the British Transport Police,^[1] Transport for London,^[2] Birmingham City Council ^[3] and were involved in the FiReControl ^[4] project.

After the introduction of BS7666:2006, they were the first company to achieve accreditation to the new standard ^[5] and the first company to have one of their customers fully migrated.^[6]

The start of 2010 saw the company move into the commercial sector after they became the UK's first reseller of NLPG data.^[7] In 2011, they were announced as the first UK company to be able to provide products compatible with the NLPG's replacement - AddressBase.^[8] In February 2017 Andy Hird and Dinesh Thanigasalam were announced as the new majority shareholders of Aligned Assets following a successful Management Buyout.^[9][10]

Operations

Aligned Assets provide Addressing software and consultancy to various market sectors across the UK. The services provided typically focus around Address Management solutions to the following markets:

• Local government
• The Emergency services
• Utilities
• Telecommunications
• Insurance

Some projects undertaken by Aligned Assets include:

• Network Fire Services Partnership - Aligned Assets and 118 Information help NFSP Fire & Rescue Services in the South West improve their service^[11][12]
• West Yorkshire Police - Accurate Addressing in Connected Systems at West Yorkshire Police ^[13]
• British Transport Police - The Truth and Nothing But the Truth in Addressing at British Transport Police^[14]
• South Wales and Gwent Police Forces – Shared Service Gazetteer^[15]
• Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council – Business Rates Retention^[16]
• Cambridgeshire Fire and Rescue Service – Corporate Gazetteer System^[17]
• London Borough of Harrow – Business Address Validation^[18]
• Christchurch and East Dorset Borough Councils – Shared Service Gazetteer Management^[19]

References

External links

• Public Sector Executive - Aligned Assets and the British Transport Police