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One flow or enterprise scale: the integration principles that hold either way
One began as a single simple flow, the other moves around 15,000 records a day across a hundred stores. Different contexts, different scales, and both built on the same integration accelerators. Here is what stays the same whatever the scale, and what changes.

Nazarii Kalichynskyi
17 October 2026 · 9 min read
- Business Intelligence
What great email marketing analytics actually looks like
Five questions an email marketing team should be able to answer from its data: from the true impact of a campaign to leaking discount codes and lapsed customers worth winning back.

Melanie Poonai
2 October 2026 · 5 min read
- Business Intelligence
Spotting renewal risk and expansion with SaaS business intelligence
Most renewal risk models treat usage as one number, when it isn’t. What people click and what actually flows through the product are two different signals. Where they disagree is where risk and opportunity can be identified first.

Melanie Poonai
21 September 2026 · 6 min read
- AI
How AI is useful for business analytics
Here’s what’s changed, what AI is really capable of, and how to use BI and AI together without losing trust in the numbers.

Nazarii Kalichynskyi
7 September 2026 · 6 min read
- Integration
Why can’t my team get reliable data from our business systems?
Every business owner has sat in a meeting where two reports show two different numbers, and nobody can say with confidence which one is right. If that sounds familiar, the problem is usually your systems, and the fact that they were never actually connected.

Nazarii Kalichynskyi
7 September 2026 · 6 min read
- Business Intelligence
Why your departments report different numbers (and how to fix it)
Here’s why it happens, what it’s costing your business, and how the right business reporting solution fixes it.

Ewelina Stawicka
21 August 2026 · 5 min read
- AI
Building an AI layer across an enterprise: what we learned building one
Two parallel workstreams, eight data sources, one Claude interface. An inside look at the architectural choices that make AI on enterprise data actually work, and what they tell you about how to do this properly.

Nazarii Kalichynskyi
14 June 2026 · 11 min read
- Business Intelligence
Why your data needs a semantic model
The problem usually isn’t the data. It’s the absence of a shared, trusted layer that makes that data mean the same thing across the whole business.

Ewelina Stawicka
14 June 2026 · 8 min read
- Business Intelligence
What great BI actually looks like
Plenty of organisations have BI. Far fewer have seen what BI can really do. The gap between functional and great is bigger than most people realise, and it changes how people actually engage with their data.

Ewelina Stawicka
13 June 2026 · 7 min read
- Integration
Building a retail data platform that keeps earning
Started with a single proof-of-concept. Now powering every part of the business. Around fifteen source systems, a full suite of Power BI Apps used across the organisation, an integration layer carrying thousands of transactions a day, and a marketing analytics programme building on top of all of it. Here is what a properly built retail data platform actually looks like.

Nazarii Kalichynskyi
11 June 2026 · 10 min read
- Business Intelligence
When BI has to feel like the brand
For a luxury brand, every customer touchpoint has to feel considered. So why should the dashboards that run the business be any different? Inside the build of a Power BI environment designed to match the brand it serves.

Melanie Poonai
11 June 2026 · 7 min read
- AI
How to get started with AI on your business data
The most practical first step is not a big AI strategy. It is putting a data agent on top of the data and BI you already have.

Nazarii Kalichynskyi
10 June 2026 · 7 min read
- Business Intelligence
Why semantic modelling matters more than you think
Most organisations invest in storing data. Fewer invest in making sure that data means the same thing everywhere. That’s the gap semantic modelling closes, and it’s the gap that determines whether your data platform actually delivers.

Ewelina Stawicka
5 May 2026 · 6 min read

