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We regularly publish insightful articles on key topics related to data management, business intelligence, and data analytics—keeping you informed and ahead of industry trends.
The Impact of the EU AI Act on Business Intelligence
The EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act is the world’s first comprehensive AI law, and while it doesn’t regulate every dashboard, it has major implications for Business Intelligence once AI features are involved.
Critical Path Thinking: Conducting Your Data Pipelines Like an Orchestra
The CFO doesn’t care if 200 tables reload on time. He cares if the P&L is ready before the board call. That’s the critical path. Your data’s conductor.
Treat the Problem, not the Symptoms: Common Mistakes in Data Cleansing
When numbers don’t add up, many teams reach for the same cure: cleansing scripts. They patch nulls, deduplicate rows, and standardize values downstream. It works. But only on the symptoms. The root problems remain. And the “data debt” keeps growing.
Data Governance and the Single Source of Truth
Companies often come to us because their reporting doesn’t add up. Dashboards contradict each other, KPIs are inconsistent, and the root cause is almost always assumed to be technical.
AI is a Bubble
So was the Internet. For weeks I’ve been saying internally that this might be the summer of decision. Not only because of the ongoing economic uncertainty, but also because of the question: how will AI adoption move forward? With the release of GPT-5, i feel confirmed in my view: AI is a bubble.
Can you feel the AGI
What Ilya saw. Ilya Sutskever, former Chief Scientist at OpenAI, once described a moment where interacting with an AI changes in feel.Not because the model suddenly became smarter overnight but because the experience shifts from “I’m prompting a tool” to “I’m collaborating with a thinking partner.”We’re starting to see exactly what he meant.
BARC Power BI Map
BARC presents the Power BI map, the "world's most comprehensive guide to the Power BI ecosystem," covering tools and service providers around Microsoft Power BI.
ETL vs ELT
ETL und ELT sind Datenintegrationsmethoden, die dazu dienen, Informationen aus mehreren Quellen in einem zentralen Datenspeichersystem zu konsolidieren.
What is Business Intelligence?
Business Intelligence (BI) refers to the process of collecting, evaluating, analyzing, and visualizing data. BI encompasses a wide range of tools, applications, and methodologies that enable users within organizations to make informed decisions based on their data. Both current and historical data are analyzed and presented through clear, comprehensible reports, dashboards, and charts. This descriptive analysis offers insights into a company's current and past performance.