The Purple Peeps Seven Favourites from Ignite 2021

What a wonderful couple of days at Ignite! It’s fascinating to hear all these exciting announcements and top tips from experts globally. One of the best things about being a Microsoft Partner is the access to the technologies, products and tech community, and all these together, empower us to drive impact so we can accelerate […]

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Power BI Financial Reporting Solution – our Education Provider case study

The Problem For many years, this education provider, like numerous other longstanding organisations, produced its financial reports using a collection of spreadsheets, all with embedded complex macros and rigid structures, which can make it challenging to implement even the simplest of changes. Every end-of-month process depended on critical sources such as uniform shop sales, canteen […]

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Client Insights using Data Analytics – our Minda case study

See how we created a standardised analytic platform that now supports current and future data solutions here.

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Azure Synapse Analytics – the essential Spark cheat sheet

Author: Nghia Nguyen In this article, I take the Apache Spark service for a test drive. It is the third in our Synapse series: The first article provides an overview of Azure Synapse, and in our second, we take the SQL on-demand feature for a test drive and provided some resulting observations. This article contains […]

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Azure Synapse Analytics – the essential SQL on-demand cheat sheet

Author: Etienne Oosthuysen Disclaimer: as Azure Synapse Analytics is still in Public Preview, some areas may not yet function as it will in a full General Availability stage. This article contains the Synapse SQL on-demand test drive as well as a cheat sheet that describes how to get up and running step-by-step. I then conclude […]

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