Science minister Lord Sainsbury said that the government went for the RAL after careful analysis of scientific, technical, operational and financial issues and the views of the funding partners.
Its tools bring together forecasting data gathered from operational administration sources, and merges them for further review and analysis by corporate managers, giving them better data to weigh before allocating resources to a given business initiative.
We would do the work to create a data analysis engine, a way of monitoring devices, or an operational intelligence system and we would support some planned activity.