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Should you use Data Lakehouse instead of a Data Warehouse and / or Data Lake?
Should you use Data Lakehouse instead of a Data Warehouse and / or Data Lake? Intro When using your Data Platform to improve your Business Intelligence with useful dashboards and reports, you’ll more than likely want to use a Data Warehouse. Add on your data science builds, and storing your raw data cheaply, plus adding a…
How can you demonstrate the ROI of Data Governance?
Imagine being a shopper in a store, where every aisle is filled with items and multiple choices. As you stroll through the store looking at the items on the shelves, the ‘unwritten’ rule of purchase pops into your mind. If something doesn’t offer value, it is likely to stay on the shelf and not make…
How do you deliver a Data Maturity Assessment for Government (DMAG)
Have you been instructed to deliver a data maturity assessment for government (DMAG), but don’t know where to start? Not to worry – we’re here to help! This blog will help you get stuck in, outlining all the need-to-know information so you can tackle this task successfully. In launching the DMAG, Megan Lee Devlin, the…
How to avoid the traps of data transformation
In recent years, many organisations have expressed a need to be more data driven. This comes from a desire to capitalise on more digitised processes and customer interactions, and the insights that might be found within the data that is created. As executives have pushed for more data and insight, many organisations have realised that…
Should you build or buy your data platform?
“Build Versus Buy” is More a Scale of Options than a Binary Decision As consultants, we’ve been involved in helping our clients to decide which is the best software to invest in (or not invest in some cases). This is quite a responsibility as we are putting our reputation in the hands of a vendor,…
What is the Purpose of a Company’s Data Strategy?
No matter the industry, every company has its own goldmine of data which, when managed well, can be used to drive leads, increase profits, improve efficiency and more. Harnessing the power of this data is rarely as simple as grabbing a few off-the-shelf data management tools and hoping for the best, though. This is where…
How to deliver a successful data strategy presentation to the board
In today’s fast-paced business landscape, the pursuit of data-driven excellence has become a common theme. Companies large and small are eager to extract more value from their data and make smarter, more informed decisions. CEOs and executives have embraced the importance of data, recognising it as a key driver of success. However, the path to…
How to Harness Generative AI for Data-Driven Decision-Making
“In the boardroom, one fact remains constant: data is the lynchpin of contemporary business. How many organisations can genuinely claim to have fully operationalised their data assets, though? If your data strategy still resides on the periphery of business operations, rather than being its driving force, you’re in good company.” That illuminating passage was written…
What is the environmental impact of your data?
There is Something Human about Waste Let’s start by setting the scene – an all too familiar one. Humans love waste. We throw away around 100 billion pieces of plastic every year in the UK, and around 1.9 billion tonnes of food that can be eaten is discarded on an annual basis, and even on…
Why Invest in Data Quality?
This can seem like a rhetorical question: you should always invest in Data Quality! But we are still not investing enough: surveys show Data Quality issues are increasing in most organisations and on average, take up 34% of a Data Engineers time instead of them creating value by adding new features. This increases to 50% in large…
Data Governance Maturity Assessment: The Secret Ingredient to Creating Great Insights
I was gifted a visit to a Michelin restaurant once. It looked and felt like a nice country pub in every way, but when I tasted the leek and potato soup… wow. And I mean, WOW! I know, how good could leek and potato soup be, you ask? Well, let me tell you, my wife…
How to create a secure Azure Data Platform
There are many methods you can use to secure your data platform and the data contained within it within Azure. The security controls that will be most effective for each data platform differ based on the usage of the platform, the data sources for the platform and many other factors; Having a holistic view of…
