Insights library
Understand the decision behind the technology.
Explore the context, compare approaches and work through the practical questions facing your IT team.
Data & AI · Decision guide
Integration platform or custom code? Compare the work after the first failure
Compare iPaaS and custom integration through retries, schema changes and recovery. Connector availability is only the beginning of the operating-cost decision.
Cloud & Infrastructure · Decision guide
Cloud commitments: price the unused hours before buying the discount
Compare cloud commitments against low demand and planned migrations. A worked break-even example shows why a headline discount can still increase total cost.
Data & AI · Practical guide
An AI acceptable-use policy should answer the employee’s next question
Write AI policy around tasks, data and review decisions. A supplier-proposal example shows how to give staff a permitted route and a useful escalation path.
IT Leadership · Practical guide
Write a software RFP that makes suppliers prove the outcome
Replace vague feature questions with a concrete workflow, required evidence and a pass condition. A focused RFP makes competing answers easier to compare.
Cybersecurity · Practical guide
SBOM requirements: ask for a file your security team can actually use
Tie the SBOM to the deployed release, validate its scope and identifiers, and rehearse the vulnerability workflow before treating delivery as acceptance.
IT Operations · Practical guide
Set service-level objectives that change what the team works on
Define a user outcome, count good and eligible events, and agree what a missed objective changes. A checkout example makes the error-budget arithmetic explicit.
Data & AI · Practical guide
Data quality rules: protect the billing decision, not the dashboard score
Turn billing failure modes into precise data quality rules, with clear tolerances and actions. Completeness alone cannot establish whether a customer should be charged.
Cloud & Infrastructure · Practical guide
Build a FinOps baseline that separates savings from a smaller bill
Reconcile the bill, explain credits and commitment timing, then connect cost to useful output. A worked example shows what a defensible FinOps baseline includes.
Data & AI · Practical guide
Build an AI use-case inventory that can trigger a decision
Record the business use, data, authority and owner behind each AI deployment. Build an inventory that exposes changes and sends unresolved uses to a decision.
