Guide Dogs selects St Ives Group to provide Hosted IT and Data Solution / Occam

Guide Dogs has appointed marketing solutions provider St Ives Group to drive insight and exploit new revenue streams from its donor database.

Occam, the St Ives-owned data-driven marketing expert, will lead the work as the charity’s new data services partner. Occam will take over management of Guide Dogs’ Apteco FastStats solution. The win adds to Occam’s stable of third-sector clients, which also includes Oxfam and RNIB.

Having won the five-year contract through a competitive pitch, Occam will advise on data enhancement and data driven insights to support a right message, right time, right channel communications strategy. Meanwhile, sister St Ives Group company Response One will provide data hygiene.