Insights
Practical notes on business technology.
Short, useful writing on the decisions we are asked about most often. The articles below are drafts in preparation — nothing has been published yet, so no dates are shown.
- Data & Analytics
- Automation
- Cloud
- Business Technology
- SME Technology
AutomationDraft
When should a business automate its reporting?
A practical test for deciding whether a recurring report is worth automating — and when leaving it manual is the sensible choice.
6 min readRead outline
Data & AnalyticsDraft
Five signs your spreadsheet process has outgrown Excel alone
Excel remains an excellent tool. These are the signals that a process needs a database, a pipeline or a dashboard layer alongside it.
5 min readRead outline
CloudDraft
Cloud infrastructure for SMEs: what actually matters?
Cutting through cloud terminology to the handful of decisions that genuinely affect reliability, cost and maintainability for smaller businesses.
7 min readRead outline
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