Insights

As a learning organisation, element61 stimulates its consultants to further build on their already vast experiences through investments in a personal development plan and a company-wide content development initiative. Through formal training, presence at industry events, networking, recommended reading and internet based information exchange, our consultants further dive into specialized topics of their own interest.

These result in what we call "Insights", own produced research content, often complemented by personal experiences and opinions. Below you can find our currently published list of Insights.

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Beyond BW: Building a scalable modernisation strategy with SAP Business Data Cloud

Modernising SAP BW to SAP Business Data Cloud (BDC) is more than just a system upgrade; it is a strategic transformation towards a more scalable, AI-driven data platform. This blog outlines the modernisation paths, available tools and best practices to ensure a smooth migration while minimising disruption.

Ysaline de Wouters

Ysaline de Wouters

Thursday, 7 August 2025

TimeXtender migration path

With TimeXtender announcing the end-of-life for version 20 (v20 and older), organisations must now decide between two future-ready paths: TimeXtender Classic (v25) or the cloud-focused TimeXtender Data Integration (TDI). This insight will give you more information on both versions and the migration path to follow.

Peter Jensen

Wednesday, 23 July 2025

Getting Started with Mosaic AI in Databricks: Fine-Tuning, Serving and AI Governance

In this insight, we explore what Mosaic AI is, how it integrates with Databricks (including MLflow), and how to use it effectively, along with key limitations and upcoming capabilities.

Julie Vanackere

Julie Vanackere

Tuesday, 22 July 2025

Empower your business decisions with CCH Tagetik's automated Cash Flow Statement

Many business leaders emphasise that "Cash is King", highlighting the crucial role cash plays in a company's financial health and stability. This underscores the importance of understanding how your company generates cash to meet debt obligations and fund operating expenses. An accurate cash flow statement is essential for gaining these insights, empowering business decision-making.

Anskje Delmeiren

Anskje Delmeiren

Thursday, 26 June 2025

How to Secure Your Qlik Sense Applications: Users, Access Rules, Section Access

Securing your Qlik Sense applications is not a one-time task; it’s an ongoing process. By properly managing users, access rules and Section Access, you ensure that sensitive data is only visible to the right people. A well-implemented security model protects your organisation, supports compliance and builds user trust in your analytics platform.

Michel Kluyskens

Michel Kluyskens

Friday, 20 June 2025

Data & AI Summit 2025 insights

The summit emphasised Databricks' focus on Apps, Databases, and Agentic AI, alongside its steady revenue growth and substantial valuation. Key announcements included the introduction of Databricks One for business users, Unity Catalog enhancements and LakeFlow Designer for no-code pipelines. Databricks also unveiled Lakebase for OLTP databases and Agent Bricks for automatically building AI agents.

Yoshi Coppens

Friday, 20 June 2025

Qlik Self-Service analytics

With Qlik Cloud Analytics, self-service is no longer a vision — it’s a practical, scalable reality that empowers every user to make data-driven decisions.

Gregory Petit

Friday, 20 June 2025

Unlocking SAP Data: overcoming challenges in Modern Data Integration

When integrating SAP data into modern platforms, selecting the right tool is crucial for efficiency, scalability, and flexibility. SAP Datasphere, Fivetran, Qlik and Azure Data Factory each offer distinct advantages, catering to different business needs and technical requirements. While some tools prioritise real-time ingestion and automation, others focus on deep SAP integration and governance.

Ysaline de Wouters

Ysaline de Wouters

Monday, 16 June 2025

Wrapping up the Soda launch week - An element61 perspective

Soda Launch Week In case you have missed it, from June 9 until June 13, Soda made a series of announcements related to their product. As close partners of Soda and avid users of their software in our customers' analytics projects and element61 acceleration kits, we were delighted to see them launch some great new features in June 2025! To ensure you didn't miss anything, we've summarised the key announcements.

Tom Bouten

Friday, 13 June 2025

Unwrapping the Unconventional: Processing Engine Logger Data with Delta Live Tables and mapInPandas

TL;DR The article outlines a solution for processing complex, binary data using Delta Live Tables (DLT) and mapInPandas within the Databricks ecosystem. Traditional ETL pipelines struggled with the unique challenges of mixed-format metadata and asynchronous data streams. By leveraging DLT's declarative ETL pipelines and mapInPandas for efficient Python-native transformations, we transformed binary data into structured, analytics-ready tables.

Jeremy Delacroix

Jeremy Delacroix

Wednesday, 28 May 2025