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Data & Analytics

Applied AI

By Richard Asquith / October 29, 2026

Data & Analytics Applied AI Practical AI, from people who use it every day.AI is moving faster than most businesses can keep up with. There is real value in it and a great deal of noise, and it is hard to tell which is which when every product now claims to be AI-powered.We use AI…

Microsoft Power BI

By Richard Asquith / October 29, 2026

Data & Analytics Power BI Reporting people trust, use and act on.Power BI is easy to start with, which is why so many organisations end up with hundreds of reports that each calculate the same figure slightly differently. The problem is rarely the dashboards. It is that every report carries its own logic, so nobody…

Data Platform

By Richard Asquith / October 29, 2026

Data & Analytics Data Platform One trusted home for your data, with its history intact.Most reporting problems are really data problems. The numbers live in several systems, each with its own version of the truth, that someone spends days stitching together before anyone can make a decision.A data platform brings that data into one governed…

How Falcon Contract Flooring Doubled Turnover to £15.5m Without Adding Overhead

By Richard Asquith / September 30, 2026

Business Foresight

By Richard Asquith / September 22, 2026

Gain AI & Data Business Foresight See what’s coming early enough to actually do something about it. Most reporting tells you what has already happened but by the time you read it, the moment to act has often passed. Foresight points the other way, at what’s about to happen, while you can still change the…

Autonomous Operations

By Richard Asquith / September 21, 2026

Gain Automation & AI Autonomous Operations The repeatable, manual work that holds your business together now just runs on its own. The approvals, the follow-ups and the data moving from one place to another so the notifications that depend on someone remembering them simply happen, reliably, in the background. The invisible overhead of people holding…

Escape Excel Hell

By Richard Asquith / August 24, 2026

Pain Escape Excel Hell! How much of your business runs on spreadsheets? Excel is a wonderful tool, easy to use, understood by everyone and quick to plug the gaps where systems fall short. That is exactly the problem, because the very thing that makes it so useful is what turns it into your biggest hidden…

Swivel Chair Syndrome

By Richard Asquith / August 20, 2026

Pain Swivel Chair Syndrome Are your people your system integration layer? When two systems can’t talk to each other, someone has to be the go-between. They read a value off one screen and type it into the next or export a file from here and upload it over there, all day. It’s the kind of…

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…

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…