Data & Analytics: From Dashboards to Decisions
Power BI, SQL warehouses, and data governance helped leaders see operational reality in near real time.
Data and analytics matured in 2022 from “reporting after the fact” to operational decision support. Finance, operations, and product teams expected dashboards that refreshed reliably — and definitions everyone trusted.
Modern data stacks
Cloud data warehouses (Snowflake, BigQuery, Synapse) and lakehouse concepts simplified large-scale storage. dbt popularised analytics engineering: tested SQL transformations in version control. Power BI and Tableau remained staples for business-facing visualisation.
Data quality and governance
Garbage-in still meant garbage-out. Master data management, column-level lineage, and role-based access reduced conflicting KPIs across departments. GDPR and internal policy required knowing who could see personal or financial data — and why.
Self-service with guardrails
Empowered analysts worked faster when IT provided certified datasets and semantic models. Ad hoc Excel exports slowed as curated datasets became the norm.
PrequaliQ helps organisations connect source systems, model data responsibly, and build reporting that teams actually use — not shelf-ware.