How much do you spend on accounting and finance?
Most companies have accounting software, a bookkeeper, and an accountant to record and track their finances. You are probably spending over 10k (if you outsource your bookkeeping and accounting- if not, it’s likely a lot more!) to ensure your accounting is done right. Why do you spend all this money on accounting and finance? If you get it wrong, you could end up spending a lot more! The same is valid for data. Your data can be the difference between job success and job failure. If you don’t…
Stop Rushing Your Data Strategy
Any technical development is constantly threatened with being rushed, and this is especially true for data projects. Data is often rushed because it costs a lot and doesn’t generate direct revenue. It’s a cost center. Executives leading data projects are under pressure to deliver quick, tangible results to justify the project’s existence. This type of development can quickly fall into delivering quick, tangible, and unscalable results. While it may seem like you’re picking up momentum for the…
Why Every Data Strategy Needs a Blueprint
Imagine this: You’ve finally saved enough money to build your dream home. You’ve found the perfect builder, You’ve laid out what type of flooring you want, the lighting and the countertops. The builder takes all of the details you’ve laid out and gets to work. When it’s all finished, you walk through the front door and find rooms placed awkwardly around the house. The kitchen is upstairs, the living room is in the basement, and your master bedroom is the entire first floor. You probably…
Are Your Metrics Leading to Miscommunication?
If you’ve been around long enough, you’ve probably seen several different ways to calculate On-time Delivery (OTD). The calculation changes depending on who is calculating it, but it’s typically called OTD across the board. The issue is that if one person means On Time to the Requested Ship Date and another means On Time to the Requested Delivery Date, there’s bound to be miscommunication, which leads to unproductive conflict. So, when defining a metric, OTD, or any other metric that can be…
Silent Errors – The Trust Killer
Silent errors will ruin your day. They’re the errors in a pipeline, Power BI calculation, or data model that no one has realized is there yet. They typically pop up because a table in a database wasn’t constrained enough or an edge case wasn’t handled properly. In either case, they ruin trust in your analytics […]
Putting the Cart Before the Horse
Most businesses could benefit more from having a data warehouse than anything fancy like real time data, data lakes, or machine learning algorithms.
The Key to Building Analytics Solutions People Love
Understanding your team’s level of buy-in when implementing analytics is crucial to building solutions that are well used and lead to the expected business results.
Unlock the Future of Your Business: Mastering the Four Stages of Data Analytics
Unlock the Future of Your Business: Mastering the Four Stages of Data Analytics Data has become the lifeblood of businesses in the digital age. Regardless of the industry or size, businesses generate vast amounts of data each day. However, data alone has no value unless it is processed, analyzed, and converted into meaningful information. A […]
Streamlining Operations in the Logistics and Transportation Industry
Streamlining Operations in the Logistics and Transportation Industry Operating in a complex and dynamic environment, logistics and transportation companies often face obstacles that can hinder efficiency and profitability. There are numerous interconnected processes, and any point of failure can disrupt the entire supply chain. Legacy, paper-based processes only compound the number of failure points. Even […]
Let’s Kick Things Off
Let’s Kick Things Off In the fast-paced and ever-evolving world of transportation and supply chain, businesses need to stay ahead of the curve to thrive. However, the industry has long relied on paper-based processes, making it challenging to harness the power of data and technology effectively. That’s where Axle Digital Solutions comes in. As the […]