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Fabric & Databricks · Series
The Model Is the Easy Bit

A model can be finished, evaluated and approved - and still never reach production. Part one of a twelve-part series on why legacy-to-AI transformations fail between the platforms: the seven capabilities beneath every production model, the eight failure states that compound, and a diagnostic that finds the gap before a platform decision hides it.

📅 July 2026 🕒 9 min read Part 1 of 12
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Databricks · Guide
Building a Real-Time Manufacturing Data Estate

Machine data sits in a historian, production in the ERP, quality and maintenance elsewhere - and by the time it's pulled together the issue has already affected production. How Azure Event Hubs and Databricks turn live operational events into insight teams can act on.

📅 July 2026 🕒 7 min read
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Automation · Guide
The Month-End Reporting Problem - and How to Automate It

Most finance teams still lose the first few days of every month to chasing files and copying numbers between spreadsheets. We break down why it happens, and the Microsoft setup that removes the manual layer for good.

📅 June 2026 🕒 8 min read
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Power BI · Case Study
How Metro Bank Built 100+ Power BI Reports

Metro Bank's CEO called Power BI "a bank in his pocket." We break down how the UK's first new high street bank in over a century used data to transform its operations, and the lessons any organisation can apply.

📅 May 2026 🕒 7 min read
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Coming Soon
Series · Part 2 of 12
Do Not Migrate the Mess

Part two of From Legacy to Intelligent: giving every dependency group an outcome, accountable owners, a migration strategy and an exit condition - before anything is copied to a target platform.

Coming Soon
Microsoft Fabric
From Spreadsheets to Lakehouse: A Practical Migration Guide

What it actually takes to move your organisation's data from scattered Excel files into a production-ready Microsoft Fabric lakehouse.