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Welcome to the Advancing Analytics blog. We’re a bunch of data and AI specialists who build modern platforms and make messy data behave.

You'll find a trove of posts and video here, focused on AI and machine learning, data engineering and analytics. Our blogs are all based on what we’re seeing in the real world - with lessons learned from the sharp end of delivery. 

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Ust Oldfield
Beyond Dashboards: How Conversational AI is Transforming Analytics
Despite billions invested in data infrastructure, most organisations still struggle with a...

25th July, 2025

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Case Study AI Insurance
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Ayodeji Ogunlami
How Agentic AI Is Revolutionising the Insurance Industry: 10...
Insurance has always been about managing risk, yet the pace of change is faster than ever....

21st July, 2025

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Ust Oldfield
Why Your Databricks Metrics Views and Power BI Aren't Seeing...
Databricks is rapidly changing how organisations manage data and analytics. At the Data and AI...

17th July, 2025

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Toyosi Babayeju
Databricks MLOps For Businesses & Techies - A Case Study
Every month millions of customers slip away, but what if you could spot them before it's too...

14th July, 2025

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Ust Oldfield
From Noise to Narrative: Making Sense of Data Products
Last month, we went live with our latest Ask Me Anything (AMA) session - this time diving deep...

9th July, 2025

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Ust Oldfield
Introducing mstr-unpacker: Making Sense of MicroStrategy
MicroStrategy’s .mstr files promise portability, modularity, and self-contained dashboards,...

3rd July, 2025

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Aimee Johnson
Get Started with Databricks File Arrival Triggers in S3
A common problem in Data Engineering is trying to time the ingestion of data as soon as it is...

30th June, 2025

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Terry McCann
Databricks Data & AI Summit Announcements 2025
We’re back from a packed week in San Francisco – and what a week it was. Last week saw the...

16th June, 2025

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Engineering Databricks
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Grace OHalloran
Serverless Egress Control: How to Secure your Azure Databricks...
Introduction Ever since Databricks Serverless became Generally Available (GA) for Notebooks...

12th June, 2025

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Adam Lammiman
A Stitch In Time: Understanding seams in software system migration
In my first article I talked about legacy systems and the problems many businesses face. I...

19th May, 2025

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