Getting answers out of your business systems
Most companies have the data. What they do not have is a way for the person with the question to get the answer without going through someone else first. These guides are about that gap. Why it exists, what has been tried, and what to ask a vendor who says they have solved it. No technical background assumed.
Why does every report take three weeks?
The delay is rarely the query. It is the queue, the definitions argument, and the fact that your data lives in six systems that were never introduced.
5 min readOne view of the customer, without an 18-month data project
Your customer exists in the CRM, finance and the support desk under three different names. What it takes to join them up, and what to insist on.
5 min readWhat to ask an AI analytics vendor before you buy
Nine questions that separate a tool your finance team will actually use from a demo that impresses once. No technical background needed.
6 min readSelf-service analytics: why it keeps failing, and what changed
Three waves of self-service tools promised to remove the analyst bottleneck. Here is why each stalled, and what is genuinely different this time.
5 min read