Ixia Insights https://ixiaconsulting.co.za/insights/ Practical thinking on data migration, data quality, governance, analytics, automation and AI, from the practitioners at Ixia Consulting who deliver the work. en-ZA Wed, 26 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT Can You Trust Your Data? Why the Question Hasn't Changed https://ixiaconsulting.co.za/insights/can-you-trust-your-data/ https://ixiaconsulting.co.za/insights/can-you-trust-your-data/ Mon, 24 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT Dave Welensky Trusted Data Ixia first published on data trust more than a decade ago. Four platform generations later, the tools are unrecognisable and the question is identical: can the business trust the numbers? What has changed is the cost of answering no. Data Assessments: Know the Problem Before You Migrate It https://ixiaconsulting.co.za/insights/data-assessments/ https://ixiaconsulting.co.za/insights/data-assessments/ Mon, 24 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT Dave Welensky Data Quality Ixia has publicly advocated evidence-led data assessment for more than a decade. The economics have transformed since then: profiling that once took weeks of workshops now takes days with automated tooling and AI-assisted classification. The argument for assessing before you migrate has only strengthened. Getting Data Loaded Is Not the Same as Getting Data Migrated https://ixiaconsulting.co.za/insights/loaded-is-not-migrated/ https://ixiaconsulting.co.za/insights/loaded-is-not-migrated/ Mon, 24 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT Dave Welensky Migration Assurance The most dangerous moment in a migration is the successful load, because success is declared in technical terms while the risk is carried in business terms. Ixia's migration methodology was built around that distinction, and it is the difference between loaded and migrated. SAP S/4HANA Data Quality: Why Waiting Until Migration Is Too Late https://ixiaconsulting.co.za/insights/s4hana-data-quality-too-late/ https://ixiaconsulting.co.za/insights/s4hana-data-quality-too-late/ Mon, 24 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT Dave Welensky SAP Data Quality S/4HANA migrations do not create data quality problems. They discover them, on a deadline, at the most expensive possible moment. The organisations that profile early, define business rules and resolve duplicates before Business Partner conversion migrate calmly. The rest negotiate with their own data under a countdown. From SAP Information Steward to AI: Why Ixia Builds Data Technology https://ixiaconsulting.co.za/insights/why-ixia-builds-data-technology/ https://ixiaconsulting.co.za/insights/why-ixia-builds-data-technology/ Mon, 24 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT Dave Welensky Engineering Ixia has been building data technology around delivery problems for over a decade: an enterprise reporting add-on for SAP Information Steward, control systems for external files, workflow acceleration for IDoc loads, operational data products. Ixia Data Quality AI is the same behaviour at platform scale. Migrations Do Not Fail Because of Tools https://ixiaconsulting.co.za/insights/migrations-fail-on-ownership/ https://ixiaconsulting.co.za/insights/migrations-fail-on-ownership/ Mon, 24 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT Dave Welensky Data Migration Every failing migration we have been called into had capable tools, correctly installed. What they lacked was a named owner for every data domain, rules in business language, and reconciliation evidence the owner could read. Ownership is the variable that moves. AI Where It Adds Business Value, Not Where It Is Fashionable https://ixiaconsulting.co.za/insights/ai-where-it-adds-value/ https://ixiaconsulting.co.za/insights/ai-where-it-adds-value/ Mon, 24 Aug 2026 08:00:00 GMT Dave Welensky AI When we built Ixia Data Quality AI, the tempting version was AI everywhere. The useful version is narrower: AI classifies, matches and summarises, with confidence scores a human reviews. Rules, reconciliation and severity stay deterministic, which is why auditors can follow every finding.