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How Plainsight thinks about data strategy: data products the business actually uses, getting your data ready for AI and Copilot, talking to your data with answers you can trust, and turning a strategy into a roadmap people follow.
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Data StrategyWill we soon just talk to our data?
Conversational AI finally promises real self-service analytics. Whether talking to your data gives you answers you can trust depends less on the data agent than on the foundation beneath it. A Plainsight point of view, based on the work we are doing with our first clients.
Power BICopilot Gives Bad Answers? Fix Your Data First.
Copilot misses the mark when your Power BI semantic model isn't prepared for AI. Two concrete steps (clean up your model and use Prep Data for AI) turn unusable answers into ones you'd happily share with your manager.
Data EngineeringImplementing Data Mesh with dbt: From Principles to Practice
Most traditional organizations rely on a centralized data team to own, build, and maintain everything data related. This team supports every business domain…
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From a long list of data product ideas to a build order: score business impact against technical feasibility and turn the result into a roadmap.
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