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The Importance of Lakehouses in the AI Era

Explore why organisations are moving from data warehouses to lakehouse architectures and how lakehouses provide the foundation for AI adoption.

carabills47a77b925b15th July 2026

AI Data

Exploring Databricks Genie: Enhancing Insight Through Conversational Analytics

An evaluation of Databricks Genie Spaces and how LLM-powered natural language querying is reshaping dashboards, data exploration, and governed self-service analytics in modern data platforms.

carabills47a77b925b4th June 2026

AI Data

From Zero To Agentic: Building an AI App on Databricks

Learn how an agentic AI application was built and deployed on Databricks in just 1.5 days using Genie, pipelines, and serverless AI tools.

carabills47a77b925b14th May 2026

how to evolve your data platform for the AI era

AI Data

How to Evolve Data Platforms for the AI Era

This blog explores how to evolve your data platform for the AI era - enabling it to serve both human users and provide AI-ready data - while building…

carabills47a77b925b29th April 2026

Data

From Dashboards to Data Culture: Key Takeaways from Our Manchester Data Roundtable

At a recent data leadership roundtable in Manchester, CTOs, CDOs, and CIOs explored the real reasons data transformation struggles to gain traction - and why culture often matters…

carabills47a77b925b10th March 2026

Data

From Excel Exports to Trusted Insight: SP Electricity North West’s Data Transformation Journey

Discover how SP Electricity North West transformed its reporting from spreadsheets to trusted, automated insights by centralising data, improving governance, and driving dashboard adoption.

carabills47a77b925b20th January 2026

Government Digital Service (GDS) Tech Stack Workshop

AI Data

Reflections from the Government Digital Service (GDS) Local Techstack Workshop

In this blog, Nina shares her reflections from the GDS Local Techstack Workshop on breaking silos, building trust, and enabling interoperable, connected data across local government.

carabills47a77b925b15th January 2026

AI Data

Enhancing AI With Organisational Context: Why Less Is Often More

This blog examines the rapid rise in data generation and storage, why more data isn’t always better for training Large Language Models (LLMs), the importance of data curation…

carabills47a77b925b4th December 2025

Data

Technical Deep Dive: Building a Python-Driven Master Data Management (MDM) Pipeline

This blog provides a technical walkthrough of how to build an end-to-end Master Data Management (MDM) process using Python. It demonstrates how to transform messy, multi-source CRM data…

carabills47a77b925b28th November 2025

Data Testing

Why Your RAG System Fails – and How Semantic Chunking Fixes It

This article breaks down why naive, fixed-size chunking leads to poor retrieval, how semantic chunking solves the problem, and what tools and methods you can use to implement…

carabills47a77b925b24th November 2025

Data

Harnessing ‘Lighthouse’ Projects & Vertical Slicing to Develop Your Data Capability

This blog explores how and why the modern data tooling ecosystem is consolidating through the lens of the Modern Data Stack (MDS).

carabills47a77b925b14th November 2025

Data

Is Consolidation Killing the Modern Data Stack?

This blog explores how and why the modern data tooling ecosystem is consolidating through the lens of the Modern Data Stack (MDS).

carabills47a77b925b13th November 2025

Data

Is a Technology Driven Approach to Data Harming You in The Longer Term?

This blog explores why many organisations take a technology-first approach to developing their data capability, how this can limit their ability to realise long-term value, and a more…

carabills47a77b925b11th November 2025

Data

How to Benchmark Your Data Maturity and Drive Business Value

This blog explores how organisations can assess their current level of data maturity, identify priority areas for improvement, and take practical steps to turn that maturity into measurable…

carabills47a77b925b27th October 2025

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The Importance of Lakehouses in the AI Era

Exploring Databricks Genie: Enhancing Insight Through Conversational Analytics

From Zero To Agentic: Building an AI App on Databricks

How to Evolve Data Platforms for the AI Era

From Dashboards to Data Culture: Key Takeaways from Our Manchester Data Roundtable

From Excel Exports to Trusted Insight: SP Electricity North West’s Data Transformation Journey

Reflections from the Government Digital Service (GDS) Local Techstack Workshop

Enhancing AI With Organisational Context: Why Less Is Often More

Technical Deep Dive: Building a Python-Driven Master Data Management (MDM) Pipeline

Why Your RAG System Fails – and How Semantic Chunking Fixes It

Harnessing ‘Lighthouse’ Projects & Vertical Slicing to Develop Your Data Capability

Is Consolidation Killing the Modern Data Stack?

Is a Technology Driven Approach to Data Harming You in The Longer Term?

How to Benchmark Your Data Maturity and Drive Business Value

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