Key challenges with data warehousing (1)

Key challenges with data warehousing

Well architected data warehouses offer a number of benefits including improving data consistency, quick turnaround on data analysis and reporting and improved data security, to name a few. Although these are great benefits there may be certain challenges that you may face with data warehousing. […]

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Hybrid cloud or multi-cloud – what’s the difference and what is right for you?

Hybrid cloud or multi-cloud – what’s the difference and what is right for you?

Cloud adoption continues to accelerate, particularly with the drive during the pandemic when organisations around the world were forced to work remotely. According to a report by Flexera, around 92% of organisations have a multi-cloud strategy in place whilst 80% of organisations have a hybrid cloud strategy. Organisations will continue to embrace the different cloud […]

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Popular data analytics and reporting tools

Popular data analytics and reporting tools

Businesses around the world are becoming data-driven and making smart decisions based on their data. They do this by leveraging innovative technologies that help them make sense of large sets of complex data. According to Future Business Insights, the global big analytics data market is worth USD 231.43 billion in 2021 and is predicted to […]

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Expert insights on the new Power BI

Expert insights on the new Power BI

As part of the Microsoft Power Platform, Power BI was released as data visualisation and reporting tool, primarily focusing on business intelligence. The software can be used individually or as part of the group of platforms offered by Microsoft including Power Apps and Power Automate. It has been around since 2015, however, has gone through […]

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Data Warehouse or a Data Lake – Key differences and choosing what is right for you

Data Warehouse or a Data Lake – Key differences and choosing what is right for you

Storing big data effectively in a structured, organised way is becoming a challenge for many organisations especially as data is rapidly growing. Although both data warehouses and data lakes are used to store large volumes of complex data, they have a number of key differences which means they cannot be used interchangeably. […]

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3 things to consider when migrating data

3 things to consider when migrating data

Businesses may opt to move their data for a number of reasons such as accessibility, improving security and increasing flexibility. Data migration can be as simple as downloading an excel document and uploading it to a database or can be as complex as moving large volumes of complex, varying data from a server to a multi-cloud or […]

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What to consider when outsourcing data management

What to consider when outsourcing data management

Data is growing at a phenomenal rate and due to the wide variety, volume and velocity of data, organisations may be unaware of how scattered their data is. Companies will have data spread across multiple, disparate sources ranging from social media to software databases. Some of the biggest challenges organisations are facing are around being unsure […]

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