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Stuck in the past: How SAP’s data policies undermine modern cloud strategies

Jan van Ansem December 19, 2024

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, organisations are increasingly relying on modern cloud-native platforms like Google BigQuery, Azure Fabric, Snowflake, and ...

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David Rice December 11, 2024

Why Boutique Consultancies Outshine Global SIs: An Insider’s Perspective

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Dan Hawker December 10, 2024

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Tino Masawi December 3, 2024

4 Key EU AI Act Insights for Data Engineers

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Tino Masawi November 29, 2024

The Makeover Quarterly Effect: A Data Engineer’s Perspective

Power BI Cheat Codes: 10 Tips to Save You Time in Development & Delivery | blog pic 5 big timer

Ben Wyllie November 29, 2024

Power BI Cheat Codes: 10 Tips to Save You Time in Development & Delivery

Pocket-Sized Power: Building Effective Mobile Dashboards in Power BI | blog 4 cover pic

Ben Wyllie November 26, 2024

Pocket-Sized Power: Building Effective Mobile Dashboards in Power BI

The Importance of Colour in Data Visualisation | blog3pic

Ben Wyllie November 20, 2024

The Importance of Colour in Data Visualisation

Mastering Hierarchies: Graphs, DAGs and BI, Oh My! (Part 3 of 7) | Organization chart and hierarchy structure employees in the company with departments in business. Working process and workflow automation with flowchart. Employee information, mindmap or organigram,

Jody Hesch November 11, 2024

Mastering Hierarchies: Graphs, DAGs and BI, Oh My! (Part 3 of 7)

Mastering Hierarchies: Graphs, DAGs and BI, Oh My! (Part 2 of 7) | Organization chart and hierarchy structure employees in the company with departments in business. Working process and workflow automation with flowchart. Employee information, mindmap or organigram,

Jody Hesch November 11, 2024

Mastering Hierarchies: Graphs, DAGs and BI, Oh My! (Part 2 of 7)

Mastering Hierarchies: Graphs, DAGs and BI, Oh My! (Part 1 of 7) | Organization chart and hierarchy structure employees in the company with departments in business. Working process and workflow automation with flowchart. Employee information, mindmap or organigram,

Jody Hesch November 11, 2024

Mastering Hierarchies: Graphs, DAGs and BI, Oh My! (Part 1 of 7)

Into the Matrix: Mastering Conditional Formatting in Power BI | man in long trenchcoat, sunglasses, and fedora doing a kickflip on a skateboard through a matrix table in the style of the matrix film

Ben Wyllie November 5, 2024

Into the Matrix: Mastering Conditional Formatting in Power BI

Relatively Dynamic: Automating Colour Formatting in Power BI | image (9)

Ben Wyllie October 22, 2024

Relatively Dynamic: Automating Colour Formatting in Power BI

50/50 Vision: Working Toward a Gender Balanced Workforce | 50 50 AI image

Tino Masawi October 17, 2024

50/50 Vision: Working Toward a Gender Balanced Workforce

Create Rich Metadata Using Snowflake Cortex with Matillion Data Productivity Cloud | Film Poster

Erick Ferreira October 13, 2024

Create Rich Metadata Using Snowflake Cortex with Matillion Data Productivity Cloud

Mind the Gap: 4 key actions data engineers can do to help bridge the digital divide | Mind the gap

Tino Masawi October 1, 2024

Mind the Gap: 4 key actions data engineers can do to help bridge the digital divide

Real-life Examples of Matillion Shared Jobs |

Padmashree Pratap August 7, 2024

Real-life Examples of Matillion Shared Jobs

Streamlining ETL with Matillion's Shared Jobs |

Padmashree Pratap August 7, 2024

Streamlining ETL with Matillion’s Shared Jobs

Snap Analytics Three Peak Challenge 2024 | 3Peak-main-cropped-SNAP

Jan van Ansem July 14, 2024

Snap Analytics Three Peak Challenge 2024

Why & How You Should Apply Principles of Effective Dating Profiles to Your Data Visualisations | Dating_app-SNAP

Jenny Eusden July 9, 2024

Why & How You Should Apply Principles of Effective Dating Profiles to Your Data Visualisations

SNP Glue - setting a new standard for getting data out of SAP | SNP-Glue

Jan van Ansem July 3, 2024

SNP Glue – setting a new standard for getting data out of SAP

SAP licence constraints - explainer |

Jan van Ansem June 25, 2024

SAP licence constraints – explainer

Great expectations - SAP's announcements for DataSphere at Sapphire |

Jan van Ansem May 21, 2024

Great expectations – SAP’s announcements for DataSphere at Sapphire

10 Questions about Sigma Computing | SigmaLarge

Fergus Ustianowski May 1, 2024

10 Questions about Sigma Computing

SAP’s cynical move to keep control of your enterprise data (aka note 3255746) | This is our data

Jan van Ansem April 23, 2024

SAP’s cynical move to keep control of your enterprise data (aka note 3255746)

AI Implementation Race | Robot sprint

Tino Masawi April 22, 2024

AI Implementation Race

Sigma Computing – the newest data visualisation tool? | SigmaLarge

Fergus Ustianowski April 19, 2024

Sigma Computing – the newest data visualisation tool?

Advanced Features of Microsoft Bookings |

Tom Clough November 30, 2023

Advanced Features of Microsoft Bookings

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Tom Clough November 15, 2023

How to Automatically Shut Down an Azure Matillion Instance After a Schedule Finishes

How to Automatically Shut Down an AWS Matillion Instance After a Schedule Finishes | image-12

Tom Clough November 15, 2023

How to Automatically Shut Down an AWS Matillion Instance After a Schedule Finishes

How to Receive Matillion Alerts in Teams with Webhooks | Webhooks

Tom Clough October 17, 2023

How to Receive Matillion Alerts in Teams with Webhooks

Pyramid Analytics' Tabulate Feature – Solving Excel’s Data Management Risks | Tabulate

Jenny Eusden August 15, 2023

Pyramid Analytics’ Tabulate Feature – Solving Excel’s Data Management Risks

Getting Data out of SAP C4C into Snowflake with Matillion using OData |

Tom Clough July 27, 2023

Getting Data out of SAP C4C into Snowflake with Matillion using OData

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Tom Bruce July 24, 2023

5 main challenges getting data out of SAP and how to overcome them

Lessons Learned from an Sustainability ESG Reporting Project | ESG

Tim Andrews July 10, 2023

Lessons Learned from an Sustainability ESG Reporting Project

Matillion releases SAP ODP and Anaplan connectors. This is why it matters. | earth-hour-photo-composition

Jan van Ansem June 21, 2023

Matillion releases SAP ODP and Anaplan connectors. This is why it matters.

Testing OData APIs for Data Acquisition in Postman | Title image

Tom Clough June 8, 2023

Testing OData APIs for Data Acquisition in Postman

ChatGPT in the work environment | ChatGPT

Jenny Eusden June 6, 2023

ChatGPT in the work environment

UKISUG Analytics Symposium - my takeaways | One way

Jan van Ansem April 23, 2023

UKISUG Analytics Symposium – my takeaways

Need to get data out of SAP and into your cloud data platform? Here are your options |

Jan van Ansem February 16, 2023

Need to get data out of SAP and into your cloud data platform? Here are your options

Be a Data Hero and deliver Net Zero! | Data Hero

David Rice January 20, 2022

Be a Data Hero and deliver Net Zero!

OK Google, show me the key influencers for the KPIs which are behind plan this quarter | OK Google3

Jan van Ansem December 19, 2021

OK Google, show me the key influencers for the KPIs which are behind plan this quarter

Plastic packaging tax doesn’t need to be taxing | Global communication network concept. Environment protection. Sustainable development goals. SDGs.

Jan van Ansem November 18, 2021

Plastic packaging tax doesn’t need to be taxing

Get your SAP data into Snowflake with Matillion using OData | Get SAP data into Snowflake with Matillion and OData

Jan van Ansem September 7, 2021

Get your SAP data into Snowflake with Matillion using OData

Breaking the barriers – Getting your SAP data on any cloud data platform | Businesswoman standing in front of breaking wall

Jan van Ansem September 7, 2021

Breaking the barriers – Getting your SAP data on any cloud data platform

The future of SAP Business Warehouse | iStock-1220486971_small

Jan van Ansem February 21, 2021

The future of SAP Business Warehouse

Part 2 – Scaling and Flexing: Data Vault Benefits | data-vault

Tom Bruce August 3, 2020

Part 2 – Scaling and Flexing: Data Vault Benefits

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David Rice August 3, 2020

Part 1 – What is Data Vault?

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David Rice July 8, 2020

AI for good – how data is helping to change the world

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David Rice July 8, 2020

Why Digital Transformation MUST start with Data Strategy

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Tom Bruce June 30, 2020

5 common data project challenges and how to avoid them

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David Rice June 10, 2020

The four pillars of a data strategy

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David Rice June 9, 2020

How to grow your business 30% year on year

Lakehouses For Sale | Data Lakehouse – House

Tom Bruce May 26, 2020

Lakehouses For Sale

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David Rice April 28, 2020

How data can help you steer the ship

Evolution not Revolution - An Agile Approach to Analytics | Evolution not Revolution

Tom Bruce March 9, 2020

Evolution not Revolution – An Agile Approach to Analytics

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David Rice February 28, 2020

How will IR35 impact your data project – and what can you do about it?

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David Rice February 12, 2020

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David Rice February 12, 2020

How to get buy-in for your data project

Modern Data Warehouse - Snowflake & Fivetran | Fivetran_Snowflake

David Rice January 17, 2020

Modern Data Warehouse – Snowflake & Fivetran

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David Rice January 17, 2020

6 data experts you need in your project team

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David Rice January 17, 2020

Why AI is a lot like teenage sex – and how you can get better at it

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David Rice December 11, 2019

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David Rice May 21, 2018

Better, cheaper, faster – you can have all three!

How to build a Data Swamp! |

David Rice May 21, 2018

How to build a Data Swamp!

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