Lessons from real enterprise data delivery.
Practical thinking on data migration, data quality, governance, analytics, automation and AI, from practitioners who design, build and deliver the work.
Trusted Data
August 2026 · 5 min read
Since 2015
Dashboards changed. Platforms changed. AI changed how information is consumed. The underlying question survived all of it.
Dave Welensky, Director, Ixia Consulting
ReadData Quality
August 2026 · 5 min read
Since the mid-2010s
Most organisations know their data is imperfect. Far fewer know where, how much, or what it will cost them. Assessment converts assumption into evidence.
Dave Welensky, Director, Ixia Consulting
ReadMigration Assurance
August 2026 · 5 min read
A load that ends without errors proves the tooling worked. It does not prove the business received its data.
Dave Welensky, Director, Ixia Consulting
ReadSAP Data Quality
August 2026 · 6 min read
By the time the migration team finds the data problems, the go-live date has already been announced. Start the quality work before the programme does.
Dave Welensky, Director, Ixia Consulting
ReadEngineering
August 2026 · 4 min read
Since 2014
Our habit of engineering our own tooling did not start with the AI cycle. It started when delivery kept hitting the same gaps.
Dave Welensky, Director, Ixia Consulting
ReadData Migration
August 2026 · 3 min read
The tooling market has never been better, and the failure rate has barely moved. The variable is ownership.
Dave Welensky, Director, Ixia Consulting
ReadAI
August 2026 · 4 min read
The discipline of building an AI product for enterprise data is mostly the discipline of leaving AI out.
Dave Welensky, Director, Ixia Consulting
ReadData Quality
In preparation
In preparation. Based on the Ixia white paper on managing duplicate customer records for clean, compliant data.