In my previous blog posts, I argued that AI adoption is a transformation program, not a tool deployment. I described the three objectives of a practical AI strategy and the foundations needed to execute that strategy. The first of those foundations is data. Here’s what being AI-ready actually means for your data. AI is…
What data leaders should actually be examining and why most organisations are looking in the wrong place. When data warehouse performance becomes a problem, the instinct is to look at the infrastructure. Query times are benchmarked. Compute costs are reviewed. The platform vendor is called. Sometimes a migration is scoped. But what if the real problem is…
Is your data platform helping people make better decisions – or just giving them faster access to the same old mess? There is no doubt Microsoft knows what it is doing when it comes to enterprise data and analytics. You do not stay a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms for 18…
Most organisations do not discover the gaps in their managed service contracts during the sales process. They discover them at 9 am on a Monday when a critical system or pipeline is down, or at the end of a month when the allocated hours are gone, and no one is quite sure where it went.…
As conversational AI becomes central to user engagement, capturing granular feedback is crucial for continuous improvement. Microsoft Copilot Studio simplifies chatbot development, but its built-in analytics only operate at the session level. To truly optimise performance, businesses need visibility into how users respond to individual bot messages- and that’s where Adaptive Cards come in. …
Your Next Teammate Might Be an AI Agent We’ve all heard the promises of AI – faster insights, better decisions, streamlined operations. But what if your AI could go beyond reacting to your prompts . . . and start acting on its own? Welcome to the era of Agentic AI – where intelligent systems…
Is Your Data Telling the Full Story? You’ve got the data. But is it really giving you the full picture? Often, raw datasets are like puzzle pieces without the box lid – you can see the individual fragments, but not the bigger story. That’s where data enrichment steps in. By adding meaningful context to…
Skillfield Wins Elastic’s Top Services Partner Award for ANZ. Sydney, Australia, 6th March 2025 – Skillfield, an Australian-based IT services consultancy specialising in Cyber Security, AI and Data Services, today announced it received the Top Services Partner award at the 2025 Elastic Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) Partner Awards. The awards ceremony took place during…
As BI Developers, we often have the choice between working with Tableau or Power BI. Fortunately, I’ve had the opportunity to work with both tools across various projects. For this blog, instead of covering the tools comprehensively, I’ll delve into the data modelling aspect, highlighting their differences, similarities, and when to choose one over the…
In the world of data analytics, metadata is the unsung hero that provides clarity and context to the seemingly chaotic world of data. Imagine metadata as a map that not only guides us through the intricate web of data connections but also highlights the hidden stories woven into our datasets. In this blog post, we embark…