Fact Latest insight
A Clean Dashboard Can Still Be Built on Broken Joins
Reporting trust depends on grain, coverage, and reconciliation, not visual polish.
Insights
Evidence before advice.
Each note works through one real decision: what the evidence supports, where it runs out, and the practical next step.
How to read these
- Fact
- Verifiable from the platform or the record.
- Insight
- Reasoned from evidence, stated as a conclusion.
- Recommendation
- A course of action MDE would advise.
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Recommendation
How to Prove a Data Platform Without Touching Client Data
A credible data-platform demonstration can start with openly licensed data, provided the evidence is real and the limits are explicit.
Recommendation
Reliable Data Pipelines Make Reruns Boring
Deterministic loads, durable checkpoints, and explicit rerun checks turn recovery into a designed path.
Insight
The Semantic Layer Is Where Reporting Decisions Become Contracts
Shared measures become trustworthy when their meaning, grain, entities, and consumers are explicit.
Fact
Unmanaged Power Platform Means Fix in Prod
Why solution drift and low ALM maturity turn every remediation into a high-risk change.
Capability areas
Where a decision turns into delivery, these are the Microsoft-based areas MDE can assess or support.