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 Factory & Airflow: mutually exclusive or complementary?

As data professionals, our role is to extract insight, build AI models and present our findings to users through dashboards, API’s and reports. Although the development phase is often the most time-consuming part of a project, automating jobs and monitoring them is essential to generate value over time. At element61, we’re fond of Azure Data Factory and Airflow for this purpose.

Monday, 23 December 2019

Power BI Governance

The goal of this document is to go over the considerations and settings needed to create a successful Power BI implementation. We will be using a high-level view and focus on large corporations with many users.

Tuesday, 10 December 2019

A best-practice Modern Data Platform with Azure Databricks and Delta

At element61 we love to work with your data. Our philosophy is providing you a Modern Data Platform in which you can do real-time analytics, big data batch analytics as well as apply Machine Learning and AI.

Friday, 29 November 2019

How Databricks Delta overcomes your Data Lake challenges

element61 believes Delta features create a big opportunity for anyone starting with a Data Lake or already having a Data Lake.

Friday, 29 November 2019

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