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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Azure Data Warehouse becomes Azure Synapse Analytics - What's new?

Azure announced the rebranding of Azure Data Warehouse into Azure Synapse Analytics. Given it's always a bit unclear if a software vendor just changed the name or actually added features, we did your homework and summarized the key findings. Enjoy the read!

Bart Van Der Vurst

Bart Van Der Vurst

Monday, 4 November 2019

Microsoft Power BI: Tabular Model Optimization

Power BI can be a great tool to start visualizing data and DAX is an easy step from Excel to write your own formulas and start creating measures. But once a model starts to grow and the amount of data keeps increasing, reports can become slow. So, what can we do about it ? How can we find the cause of this decline in performance? And most importantly, how do we solve it ? Let's take a look ...

Monday, 28 October 2019

Predicting traffic intensity using Open Data & Microsoft Azure

Our intern Kjell wanted to gain more practical experience in data science and data engineering and started an internship with element61.

Wednesday, 23 October 2019

Building a hybrid Cloud: Syncing on-premise databases to Microsoft Azure Cloud using Azure Data Factory

A lot of organizations are moving to the Cloud striving for a more scalable and flexible Business Analytics set-up. However, they might still be having various databases and sources on-premise and thus wondering how to set up a hybrid environment.

Charles Cuigniez

Charles Cuigniez

Wednesday, 31 July 2019

Migration to BW/4HANA, an opportunity to build a modern Datawarehouse

Click here to read more about the migration journey to BW/4HANA, and the opportunities it brings for remodelling.

Tuesday, 11 June 2019

Why a Customer Data Platform (CDP) will be the next step in Marketing Automation

Read our perspective of a Modern Marketing Platform where marketeers – to be future proof - need the capabilities of what is now called a Customer Data Platform (CDP).

Bart Van Der Vurst

Bart Van Der Vurst

Tuesday, 28 May 2019

What’s new in IBM Cognos Controller 10.3x and 10.4

Click here to learn what is new in IBM Cognos Controller 10.3x / 10.4. And discover whether the new Controller Web interface can help you collect your consolidation & financial reporting input more efficientlyA.

Tuesday, 21 May 2019

What’s the difference between a CDP and DMP?

DMPs & CDPs are Marketing Data tools. This is what you need to know on their similarities, differences and which tools fits best your use-cases.

Wednesday, 15 May 2019

Azure Machine Learning Services: a complete toolbox for AI?

Azure Machine Learning Services is a the new AI toolbox released in Microsoft Azure Cloud. We tested it hands-on and these are our findings

Sunday, 5 May 2019

All you need and wanted to know about SAP BPC 11 on BW4/HANA

SAP BPC 11 on BW/4HANA is a completely different product than the BPC-Optimized version for S/4HANA. Read more about BPC 11 on BW/4HANA

Tuesday, 9 April 2019