Data & Analytics Leadership

A data platform should not depend on one person’s account. If the warehouse, catalogue, credentials, and scheduled jobs are all tied to a single login, the…

You reduce noisy alerts by classifying what is truly safe to suppress, what should be downgraded, and what must stay loud. The goal is not fewer alerts for the sake of it, it is better incident…

The right incremental key is the one that matches how the source system actually changes, not the one that looks neat in a sample extract. If there’s no trustworthy modified timestamp, you usually…

A pipeline that fails at 2 a.m. is usually trying to tell you one of three things: the source is having a transient API issue, the contract changed under you, or the data genuinely is not there. If…

That matters most during month-end, EOFY, promo spikes, and the kind of busy trading periods Australian wholesalers and distributors know too well. The API still returns HTTP 200. The dashboard still…

The first cleanup pass always catches the loud problems. Blank supplier names. Duplicate customer codes. Materials with no base unit. Those are the easy wins, and they make everyone feel better for a…

If you only have time to fix a few things before ERP, start with the workflows that write to customer, product, supplier, pricing, and approval data. Those are the ones that poison the new system on…

That combination causes more ERP pain than the software itself.

I have seen month-end close held up by a $12,000 variance that turned out to be a timing issue in one report, a missing mapping in another, and a manual...

Most lakehouse failures above ERP systems start with a simple mistake: teams try to copy everything, every night, and assume the warehouse will sort it out...

Unlock ERP data potential and avoid hidden pitfalls. Discover insights on overcoming integration challenges to ensure seamless and secure data flow.