Hello and welcome!

My name is Oscar and I’m passionate about finding novel ways to create value from data with business intelligence.

Over the past few years there has been a significant shift in the business intelligence world. The emergance of low-code PaaS technologies has effectively democratised the infrastructure and development required to setup automated business intelligence (BI) solutions.

Traditionally a BI solution would require an IT team who would need to fully understand the business logic to design and create the data model… and also setup the data pipelines needed to feed it! Often business logic is complex therefore this process involved lengthy requirement specifications and a slow back and forth between IT and users to realise a working solution. Then months down the line something changes and a new feature or amendment is required 😵. The effort and resource involved in this approach creates a significant up-front and ongoing cost to the business that makes many use cases infeasible. Moreover reporting would easily be deprioritized over production projects and issues in a heartbeat.

In my experience this led to business users creating beastly Excel spreadsheets to fill the gap instead… shudder.

Well… today in 2022 business users now have the tools to create and deploy complete end-to-end BI solutions themselves within hours… all using office 365! Businesses no longer need big budgets and IT teams to fulfil their BI needs. This has resulted in an explosion of use cases which have now become feasible, driving efficiencies and improving service to customers.

I’ve set up this space to share how I as an end user have utilised these new technolgies within a business. The importance here is that this will not just focus on the technical aspects of the tools but also on how the solutions themselves fit into users everyday workflows.

Watch this space!