Data Strategy & Governance
Silent Waste: The Hidden Cost of Weak Digital Foundations
By Richard Asquith / February 23, 2026
Most business leaders know when something isn’t quite right. Revenue grows, teams stay busy, technology spend is healthy, yet margins remain flat and everyone feels permanently stretched. The visible costs are managed deliberately – headcount, technology, premises – but something else is consuming resources without appearing cleanly on the profit and loss account. It’s the…
How Falcon Contract Flooring Doubled Their Turnover Without Adding Operational Overhead Through Digital Transformation
By Richard Asquith / January 14, 2026
How Falcon Contract Flooring Doubled Turnover Without Adding Overhead Falcon Contract Flooring is a leading UK commercial flooring specialist operating in a fast-moving, delivery-critical environment. As the business grew, maintaining control across jobs, teams and suppliers became essential to scaling without adding overhead. Read business case study Client Snapshot Client: Falcon Contract Flooring Sector: Commercial…
Top 7 Signs Your Business Is Trapped in Excel Hell … and How to Escape It
By Richard Asquith / November 27, 2025
Excel has earned its place as one of the most versatile tools in business history. Yet for all its power, many organisations are quietly drowning in it. When critical reporting, forecasting, and decision-making depend on endless manual spreadsheets, you are not managing data – you are managing chaos. Escaping Excel Hell with automated business reporting…
Escape Excel Hell: Move Beyond Spreadsheets to Smarter, Trusted Decisions
By Andy McLean / November 11, 2025
Where We Went Wrong with Excel For decades, Excel has been the quiet workhorse of business life. It has modelled finances, tracked sales, forecast demand and helped managers make sense of the numbers. But somewhere along the way, that helpful spreadsheet evolved into something far more dangerous – a sprawling maze of formulas, links and…
Leveraging Image Analysis with Azure AI
By Dom Tuck / July 31, 2025
Exploring a practical application for Computer Vision in process automation Image validation and manual review are often overlooked sources of inefficiency. When teams are forced to sift through thousands of photos – whether from delivery drivers, field engineers or customers – it eats into valuable time, slows decisions and makes it harder to enforce consistent…
Understanding Fabric Capacity; Smoothing, Throttling and Overages
By Andy Taylor / July 9, 2025
You’ve successfully deployed your new Fabric data solution after weeks of gathering requirements, wrangling data, and designing reports. Scheduled extract, transform and load (ETL) processes run efficiently every hour. Everything appears to be running smoothly, delivering near real-time insights. The stakeholders love their new reports. But on day two, something changes. Dashboards start to feel sluggish…
Harnessing DevOps for Business Intelligence and Power BI
By Andy McLean / June 17, 2025
Many organisations rely on data to steer critical decisions – but delivering trustworthy, up-to-date insight is rarely simple. Reports built in silos, manual deployment steps and inconsistent testing can slow down delivery and undermine trust. This is where applying DevOps principles to Business Intelligence (BI) makes a real difference. Already well known in software development…
Law firm migrates from Tableau to Power BI, modernises reporting, reduces cost and enables data-driven growth
By Ben / June 16, 2025
How Stowe Family Law modernised reporting, reduced cost, and enabled data-driven growth Stowe Family Law, the UK’s largest specialist family law firm, needed a better way to turn data into decisions. With rapid growth came complexity – more offices, more cases, and more data. But their existing analytics setup, built on Tableau, had become a…
How Stowe Family Law modernised reporting and enabled data driven growth
By Richard Asquith / June 12, 2025
How Stowe Family Law modernised reporting, reduced cost, and enabled data-driven growth Stowe Family Law, the UK’s largest specialist family law firm, needed a better way to turn data into decisions. With rapid growth came complexity – more offices, more cases, and more data. But their existing analytics setup, built on Tableau, had become a…
Circyl Secures Data Platform Re-Architecture Project with Silentnight
By Richard Asquith / May 12, 2025
We are excited to announce that Circyl has been selected by Silentnight, the UK’s leading bed manufacturer, to support their digital transformation journey. This project will focus on re-architecting their data platform to enhance data-driven decision-making and optimise business insights. By implementing a best-practice medallion architecture and self-service analytics capabilities, we aim to empower Silentnight’s…