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Field-tested insights on data & AI

Practical writing from consultants doing the work — not vendor marketing.

Executive Dashboard Best Practices That Get Used

The design and governance decisions that separate a dashboard people open daily from one ignored after week two.

Automating Excel reports with Power Query, Office Scripts, and Power Automate — cost, effort, and outcomes.

Dashboard tools compared on cost, setup time, and who should actually use each one.

Pricing, ecosystem fit, and governance compared, with a framework for choosing your analytics platform.

Cost model, scaling, and maintenance compared — a practical framework for choosing a data warehouse.

Cost, speed of build, maintainability, and team skills compared for data prep and automation.

Cost, scalability, and governance compared — with a decision framework from consultants who build in both.

Cost, modeling, governance and total cost of ownership compared — from a team that deploys both.