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Explore guides to the data and AI work behind business decisions. Find practical explanations of data foundations, health and research, finance and HR, analytics and AI, with examples and tool guides to help you evaluate the work your team needs.

Data foundations

Cloud data warehouses for business use

Evaluate cloud data warehouses by workload, delivery needs and the path to useful answers.

A useful data dictionary for business data

Connect field definitions to business terms and maintain meanings that reports and AI can use.

What is data engineering in practice?

Learn how source connections, historical records and maintained models support daily business use.

A practical data governance framework

Build governance around real decisions, shared definitions, enforced access and daily operation.

Data governance tools for business use

Explore governance tools for catalog work, lineage, access and usable business data.

Data integration for shared business answers

Connect finance, people and operations through shared records, historical relationships and definitions.

Data lake or data warehouse: how to choose

Choose a lake, warehouse or lakehouse around the reports and investigations people need.

Data management tools for usable business data

Explore tools for source movement, shared records, governed questions and ongoing delivery.

Data migration that preserves reporting

Plan reporting dependencies, acceptance checks and a controlled cutover for data migration.

ETL pipelines for dependable business reports

Learn how ETL pipelines handle source changes, dependencies, recovery and incomplete loads.

Databricks pricing and platform cost drivers

Connect platform resource use to the reports and workflows people actually need.

Data quality tools for dependable reports

Explore testing, monitoring and investigation tools to keep business reports dependable.

Chief data officer: role and responsibilities

Understand the chief data officer role and how delivery and AI responsibilities fit together.

Databricks alternatives for existing PySpark

Compare cheaper places to run PySpark and Spark SQL jobs without rewriting them.

Databricks vs Snowflake: choosing a platform

Test a business workload and the work needed to keep reports and pipelines running.

What is ETL? Choosing ETL or ELT for reporting

Learn how ETL and ELT prepare reporting data and handle changes and retries.

ETL tools for lean teams: scope and ownership

Explore ETL tools by source behavior, transformation needs and ownership of the finished workflow.

Medallion architecture for useful data

Follow bronze, silver and gold layers from source records to an explainable business measure.

A modern data stack for smaller teams

Connect sources and shared definitions to reliable reports, adoption and support for smaller teams.

One set of numbers your team can trust

Resolve conflicting reports through shared definitions, source records and consistent reporting cutoffs.

Health and research

AI on Epic data: from questions to use

Use AI on Epic data for operational and research questions, with shared measures and query review.

Healthcare data warehouse: when and how

Understand when healthcare needs a warehouse and how Epic and other sources fit.

Epic analytics tools: choosing the right route

Match an Epic question to its data, reporting needs and the people using it.

Epic Clarity in Snowflake or Databricks

How health systems land Clarity and Caboodle in a warehouse and keep it working after upgrades.

Epic Cosmos: research, access and local data

Understand when Cosmos fits a research question and when local institutional data is needed.

Reliable Epic cohorts and clinical data quality

Build repeatable Epic cohorts with appropriate extracts, reviewed flowsheet mappings and source history.

Healthcare analytics platforms by workflow

Explore platforms for population programs and reporting across Epic, finance and workforce systems.

Health information exchange for Epic analytics

Examine HIE, HL7 and FHIR records, patient matching and source coverage for Epic analytics.

OMOP data preparation for research teams

Learn how OMOP mappings preserve clinical meaning and what to check before releasing research data.

Self-service research data from Epic and REDCap

Give investigators cohort tools and a governed research copy with access controls an IRB can review.

Finance and HR

Board reporting that supports decisions

Build board reports with consistent measures, clear commentary and a repeatable release process.

How to choose financial reporting software

Evaluate financial reporting software through source history, shared calculations, review and the recurring close.

HR and Finance headcount that matches

Agree four definitions and one as-of rule, then close without hand-reconciled exports.

HR reporting with useful workforce history

Build workforce reports with shared definitions, effective dates, appropriate access and review.

Explain budget versus actual variances

Align budget and actuals, explain the variance and identify an owner and next action.

Historical Workday reports and effective dates

Learn why historical reports show current values and how effective dates and corrections affect them.

Automating the wRVU per FTE report

Join Epic professional billing to Workday positions by effective date and reconcile one quarter.

Analytics and AI

Agentic analytics: when to use it at work

Choose an investigation, test its evidence and put the result into everyday work.

AI tools for business data analysis

Explore AI analysis tools by the work people need and how to evaluate business answers.

Business intelligence tools for reporting

Explore BI tools by reporting fit, data preparation, migration tests and ongoing ownership.

Business intelligence in everyday work

Understand BI through shared measures, reporting, delivery ownership and the decisions it supports.

What makes business data ready for AI?

Prepare business data for AI through defined tasks, shared meaning, evidence and access controls.

Is ChatGPT or Claude HIPAA compliant?

Which AI products a BAA covers, what it leaves out and how hospitals deploy AI on PHI.

Private LLMs for enterprise data and AI

Examine private LLM deployment through source access, model endpoints, retained records and answer evaluation.

Semantic layers for reports and AI answers

Connect business definitions to calculations and keep measures consistent across reports and AI tools.

Student retention analytics for useful support

Connect student records to explainable signals, advising support and measures of what follows outreach.

Discuss an opportunity in your work

We can talk about how your team investigates a change and what happens after it finds an explanation. A demo is a chance to discuss where an agent could help and how people would check the work it does.