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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Introduction to Power Apps

Introduction to Power Apps

Power Apps are an offering from Microsoft under their Microsoft Power Platform released in 2018. The platform provides complete solutions for businesses that include, visualising and analysing data with Power BI, building powerful mobile apps with Power Apps, reducing manual work and automating business processes with Power Automate and creating chatbots for communication with Power Virtual Agents. […]

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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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choose the right software development provider

How to choose the right software development provider

Organisations across the world are technology-driven and have become even more so in the wake of the pandemic. With technology to support the remote working movement, many businesses were able to continue their business operations throughout the number of lockdowns. With the increasing adoption of software and technology solutions, businesses will need to choose the […]

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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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Flutter or Xamarin – what cross-platform technology is right for you

Flutter or Xamarin – what cross-platform technology is right for you

Flutter and Xamarin are both popular cross-platform tools used to build mobiles apps. They allow developers to use the same code base to save time and resources for developers and in turn, save costs for businesses for development and long-term maintenance. Flutter is an offering from Google and is considered fairly new with it being […]

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