Data & Analytics
Most business leaders know when something isn’t quite right. Revenue grows, teams stay busy, technology spend is healthy, yet margins remain flat and everyone feels permanently stretched. The visible costs are managed deliberately – headcount, technology, premises – but something else is consuming resources without appearing cleanly on the profit and loss account. It’s the…
How Falcon Contract Flooring Doubled Turnover Without Adding Overhead Falcon Contract Flooring is a leading UK commercial flooring specialist operating in a fast-moving, delivery-critical environment. As the business grew, maintaining control across jobs, teams and suppliers became essential to scaling without adding overhead. Read business case study Client Snapshot Client: Falcon Contract Flooring Sector: Commercial…
Excel has earned its place as one of the most versatile tools in business history. Yet for all its power, many organisations are quietly drowning in it. When critical reporting, forecasting, and decision-making depend on endless manual spreadsheets, you are not managing data – you are managing chaos. Escaping Excel Hell with automated business reporting…
Where We Went Wrong with Excel For decades, Excel has been the quiet workhorse of business life. It has modelled finances, tracked sales, forecast demand and helped managers make sense of the numbers. But somewhere along the way, that helpful spreadsheet evolved into something far more dangerous – a sprawling maze of formulas, links and…
An Alternative History of Computing – Part One Editors Note: All images created using Sora AI by OpenAI and are based on how the writer remembers them. After a recent #GreggsWalk we sat around the diner at work discussing various things – wide ranging topics such as BBC Sounds podcasts, football, the features and benefits…
Exploring a practical application for Computer Vision in process automation Image validation and manual review are often overlooked sources of inefficiency. When teams are forced to sift through thousands of photos – whether from delivery drivers, field engineers or customers – it eats into valuable time, slows decisions and makes it harder to enforce consistent…
Transforming Lives with Data That Delivers Money Advice Trust is one of the UK’s leading debt advice charities, supporting thousands of people every day with practical guidance during moments of acute financial stress. Rising demand – and a goal to triple the volume of support provided – meant the charity needed a more joined-up, insight-driven…
You’ve successfully deployed your new Fabric data solution after weeks of gathering requirements, wrangling data, and designing reports. Scheduled extract, transform and load (ETL) processes run efficiently every hour. Everything appears to be running smoothly, delivering near real-time insights. The stakeholders love their new reports. But on day two, something changes. Dashboards start to feel sluggish.…
Many organisations rely on data to steer critical decisions – but delivering trustworthy, up-to-date insight is rarely simple. Reports built in silos, manual deployment steps and inconsistent testing can slow down delivery and undermine trust. This is where applying DevOps principles to Business Intelligence (BI) makes a real difference. Already well known in software development…
How Stowe Family Law modernised reporting, reduced cost, and enabled data-driven growth Stowe Family Law, the UK’s largest specialist family law firm, needed a better way to turn data into decisions. With rapid growth came complexity – more offices, more cases, and more data. But their existing analytics setup, built on Tableau, had become a…