Author Archives: Ian Baddock

Xero is one of the most popular and well known accounting applications and for good reason.  It doesn’t cost much plus it’s really easy to use. It also has a great reporting module that gives you everything you need to see your business finances from all angles. Well, it almost has everything. Xero doesn’t have […]

There’s no doubt the coronavirus pandemic has been a massive shock for the whole globe.  Perhaps most surprising is the shock that has happened to global stock markets. A century of ups and downs For 100 or so years global markets have experienced quite a number of significant downturns as a result of major global […]

Xero is one of the most popular and well known accounting applications and for good reason.  It doesn’t cost much plus it’s really easy to use. It also has a great reporting module that gives you everything you need to see your business finances from all angles. Well, it almost has everything. Xero doesn’t have […]

One of the most amazing outcomes of Data Analytics is that you can quite often discover real insights about your business that you didn’t know. These insights could be the kind that is intuitive but difficult to spot, but in some cases, they can be real mind bending insights that would never have occurred to […]

How much data is enough? This is an interesting question and one we get asked a lot. Typically, people talk about how many rows they have. To be honest, it doesn’t matter whether you have a hundred, a thousand, a million or 7 billion rows of data. Editor: We recently worked on a project with […]

Building a KPI dashboard can be hard and time consuming. You have to collate all the data, convert the results into KPIs, build the dashboard and then distribute to each of the users.  Then there’s the ongoing management, updates and upkeep. Not to mention the change requests and questions, etc, etc. Yes, it’s hard to […]

AI on a shoestring budget. It can be done!! AI takes several forms and one of the most critical aspects is what you plan to accomplish while considering implementing AI. Certainly, if you want to implement an AI framework into your entire business that solves many problems with little human assistance it will come with […]

One problem that costs businesses millions through lost productivity is inefficient reporting systems. The time needed each month to prepare and distribute reports is astronomical. A true story of lost productivity One of our clients reported that it took 3 of their employees 2 weeks per month to prepare the reports for the regular board […]

You’ve read all the success stories about how firms have used AI to interrogate their customer data to increase customer retention. They implement a clever automated solution that saves them from the brink of oblivion and catapults them to the forefront of their industry. Yay! These success stories are becoming more and more commonplace and […]

The Data Life Cycle describes the stages that your organisation goes through.  From the initial capture to the decisions ultimately made through its use. Organisations that manage their data life cycle are far more likely to benefit from Data Analytics and even AI. There are many views on the life cycle of data, and each […]