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24-Jan-2024ByRoss WaterstonData Management

Overseeing the first month of a brand-new year can comes with mixed feelings. It gives us the excitement of a clean slate to restart or reinvent what we have perceived as a failure. This is tempered with apprehension; it can be a daunting process and overwhelming. We are nearly into February, how are you doing?...

Small Steps – practice excellence

10-Jan-2024ByRoss WaterstonData Culture, Data Management

A week into the year, we find ourselves starting to repeat difficult tasks and question why we are doing this. Believe us when we tell you that is normal. First, let us answer the question about how we ended last week. “Practice excellence, and it will become habitual”. This is the challenge we have to...

New Year – Week One

03-Jan-2024ByRoss WaterstonData Analytics, Data Management

Let us start by saying Happy New Year! At this time, many of us seem to think “New Year, New me”, and as if to prove our favourite saying true, LinkedIn is again filled with “New Year, new job” posts. These will be the tip of the iceberg, “New Year, New me” in business will...

The morning after that night.

20-Dec-2023ByRoss WaterstonData Analytics, Data Culture, Data Management

Analysis is deeply embedded in organisations; all accountants expect some level of analysis from you, even if it is as simple as “Total Monthly Sales”. The open secret of the analytics industry is that those “What happened” or Descriptive Analytics will never go away. In fact, they will continue to make up the vast majority...

A Data Tale – A Christmas Classic: Part Three

13-Dec-2023ByRoss WaterstonData Analytics, Data Culture, Data Management

Scrooge became vaguely aware of the inside his eyelids being lit up as the sun shone through the window. As he lifted his head from his pillow, he wondered what on earth might happen next. He wasn’t sure whether he’d been asleep or actually on some wild escapade it had all felt so vivid. He...

A Data Tale – A Christmas Classic: Part Two

06-Dec-2023ByRoss WaterstonData Analytics, Data Culture, Data Management

Ebeneezer is visited by the ghosts of Data Present and Data Future, but will their insight help to change his ways?[/caption] Apparently, today was a good day; sitting in her stunningly minimalist office, the only thing that disturbed her was the steady flash of lights as the computers processed people’s requests. Life was great, no...

A Data Tale – A Christmas Classic

29-Nov-2023ByRoss WaterstonData Analytics, Data Culture, Data Management

Ebeneezer sat there rubbing his hands with glee as the phone rang off the hook. “Hello, Ebeneezer’s taxis… name, where from, where too?” Rather than chancing their arm, people seemed to like that a taxi would turn up right on time, just for them. He also liked that he got to have minimum exchange with...

Just in Time… not just for manufacturing

22-Nov-2023ByRoss WaterstonData Analytics, Data Culture, Data Management

When I decided I wanted to start a Power Platform Consultancy, I was doing it with very mixed feelings. Across my career I have worked with many of the big consulting firms as well as smaller consulting firms. I have had mixed experiences, and one of the things I wanted to make sure was that...

Time Intelligence Patterns

08-Nov-2023ByRoss WaterstonData Analytics, Data Management

Intelligent use of time implies wisdom, so when we talk about time intelligence patterns, what does it mean and how can we apply it to our analysis? Time Intelligence is the practice of applying your calendar or time dimension to your measures. Think about your sales, understanding the value of a sale is great and...

Clocks and Calendars

01-Nov-2023ByRoss WaterstonData Analytics, Data Management

Ask any experienced Data Professional, “What’s the most important table in Analytics?” They will all tell you the same table, but with many different names. “Dates”, “Calendar” and “DimDates”… to name a few. The Calendar in Analytics is so important because most report packs have an element of comparison across dates. The converse of that...

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