In today's data-driven business landscape, the ability to quickly interpret and act on data is crucial. Microsoft's Copilot for Power BI introduces a transformative approach to business intelligence, leveraging generative AI to enhance data analysis and reporting. This article explores how Copilot for Power BI can revolutionise your organisation's decision-making processes.

Running a business on Shopify is all about speed, scale and staying close to the customer. But managing the financial side? That’s where most business leaders feel the drag. Invoicing, reconciliation, and reporting often rely on outdated manual processes that chew through time and introduce errors.

Salesforce's $8 billion acquisition of Informatica is poised to significantly impact mid-market businesses, particularly in Australia. This strategic move aims to enhance Salesforce's AI and data management capabilities, offering mid-sized enterprises access to tools previously reserved for larger corporations.

Most property and construction businesses don’t have a data problem. They have a data action problem.

The strategies get written. The reports get built. The dashboards get launched. And then it all sits in the background while teams keep using spreadsheets, chasing updates, and making the same manual decisions they always have.

Scaling a business in Australia is no longer just about hiring more people or selling more products. It is about making smarter decisions faster, using data to stay agile, efficient, and resilient. Growth without a data strategy is a recipe for rework, waste, and missed opportunities.

For mid-market executives, the difference between strategy and noise often comes down to one thing: knowing what to measure. You do not need more dashboards. You need the right data at the right time. Most businesses are drowning in reports but starving for insight. It is easy to become reactive, reviewing last month’s figures, chasing week-old anomalies, or making decisions based on incomplete snapshots. In 2025, that is not good enough.

When it comes to choosing the right business intelligence (BI) tool, the stakes are high. A BI platform is not just a reporting tool. It is the lens through which your organisation views performance, identifies opportunities, and drives decisions. For Australian businesses looking to get more from their data, three tools dominate the conversation: Power BI, ThoughtSpot, and Tableau.

In 2025, the difference between companies that scale and those that stall often comes down to one critical capability: data integration. If your business is still relying on spreadsheets, siloed systems, or brittle custom code, you're playing catch-up in a world that demands real-time, connected intelligence.

In manufacturing, precision, efficiency, and control are everything. But when it comes to data, many Australian manufacturers are still flying blind. Systems are fragmented, spreadsheets run the show, and leadership is stuck making decisions based on gut feel rather than facts. This needs to change.

In a business climate where agility, accuracy, and insight are the difference between leading and lagging, data has become a core strategic asset. But collecting data is not the same as using it. For many mid-market companies across Australia, data remains fragmented, underutilised, or misaligned with actual business needs.

For businesses serious about using data to drive decisions, the concept of a single source of truth (SSOT) is more than a buzzword. It's the backbone of operational clarity, strategic agility, and confident leadership. The Microsoft tech stack offers one of the most accessible, scalable, and powerful toolsets for creating that unified data foundation.

In every boardroom, there's a familiar conversation happening. It's the moment where instinct meets uncertainty, where gut feel is questioned, and where leadership must decide whether to trust experience or demand evidence. For Australian businesses looking to grow, scale, and compete, it's time to rethink how operational decisions get made.

This article is about that shift. The move from reactive to proactive. From manual to automated. From guesswork to data-led decision making. It's not just a technical transformation. It's a leadership mindset. And it's happening faster than most leaders realise.

In an industry known for razor-thin margins, complex projects, and long lead times, data is no longer a nice-to-have. It is a business imperative. Yet, in our work with property developers, construction firms, and asset managers across Australia, we continue to see a familiar pattern: data exists, but it is not delivering value.

If you're a Chief Operating Officer in 2025, you're already under the pump. You're managing operational chaos, balancing cost with service, and being asked to do more with less. Everyone wants efficiency, agility, and insight. But too often, they’re asking you to get there without the tools or clarity.

Most businesses don’t realise how much value they leave on the table by letting their core systems operate in silos. CRM. ERP. Finance. These three systems hold the heartbeat of any business. But for too many Australian mid-market companies, they live in separate worlds. Sales knows one version of the truth, ops has another, and finance is left cleaning up the mess.

This article breaks down why data integration services in Australia are no longer optional, especially for mid-market businesses. It’s also a warning. Because failing to act now could cost you far more than you think.

For mid-market and emerging businesses, data is no longer a luxury. It's a necessity. But having a data team isn't enough. To truly unlock value, your data team must adopt a business-focused approach.

Bringing data together from different systems into one dashboard is one of the most effective ways to improve business decision-making. When teams can view sales, marketing, finance and customer insights in one place, it's easier to spot patterns, track performance and take action.

This blog walks through how to build a dashboard from multiple data sources, with a focus on choosing the right metrics first, selecting tools that work for your team, and building trust in the data you see.

In this video, Pentify Insights co-founder Tom Clements joins the "Practice Makes Perfect" series to break down what data and analytics really means for small to mid-sized Australian businesses.

This post breaks down why the month-end close drags on, what underlying issues tend to cause the delays, and where teams can look for meaningful improvements.