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Data Platforms & Integration

Silent Waste: The Hidden Cost of Weak Digital Foundations

By Richard Asquith / February 23, 2026

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 Their Turnover Without Adding Operational Overhead Through Digital Transformation

By Richard Asquith / January 14, 2026

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…

Top 7 Signs Your Business Is Trapped in Excel Hell … and How to Escape It

By Richard Asquith / November 27, 2025

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…

Leading UK debt charity, Money Advice Trust, implement modern, scalable CRM & Power BI reporting

By Richard Asquith / July 22, 2025

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…

Understanding Fabric Capacity; Smoothing, Throttling and Overages

By Andy Taylor / July 9, 2025

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.…

Harnessing DevOps for Business Intelligence and Power BI

By Andy McLean / June 17, 2025

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…

Law firm migrates from Tableau to Power BI, modernises reporting, reduces cost and enables data-driven growth

By Ben / June 16, 2025

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…

Circyl Secures Data Platform Re-Architecture Project with Silentnight

By Richard Asquith / May 12, 2025

We are excited to announce that Circyl has been selected by Silentnight, the UK’s leading bed manufacturer, to support their digital transformation journey. This project will focus on re-architecting their data platform to enhance data-driven decision-making and optimise business insights. By implementing a best-practice medallion architecture and self-service analytics capabilities, we aim to empower Silentnight’s…

Why a Data Warehouse is Critical to Realising the Full Potential of Power BI 

By Andy McLean / April 17, 2025

For organisations that rely on Power BI, the advantages are clear: fast visualisation, intuitive analysis and accessible insights. But despite Power BI’s proven strengths, many businesses underestimate the critical role of their underlying data architecture. A common pitfall is treating Power BI as a standalone solution – connecting directly to disparate sources without an organised,…

Circyl Builds CRM Solution for Aintree Plastics for managing sales activities and pipeline management

By Ben / September 16, 2024

As a market leader in extruding and converting polythene films for the Industrial and Food & Beverage markets, Aintree Plastics required a modern CRM solution to help them centralise customer data, improve data visibility and streamline operations.