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Insights and articles about data, cloud and digital transformation.

13 March 2026

Welcome to House of Data

Introduction of our new website and our vision on data and cloud.

11 March 2026

Which AI tool should your organization choose?

An honest comparison of ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot and Gemini: not which is best, but which fits how your organization works.

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11 March 2026

How to set up a Claude Project for your business

A practical example with B&G Catering: what goes in the instructions, which documents to upload, and what it delivers.

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4 March 2026

Fabric Mirroring: how we removed Synapse from our BC365 pipeline

From complex Synapse pipelines to near-realtime data with Fabric Open Mirroring. How a BC2ADLS upgrade fundamentally simplified the architecture.

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3 March 2026

Why your Azure costs explode with realtime reporting

How a lift-and-shift to Azure can blow up your cloud costs with near-realtime reporting, and what you can do about it.

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3 March 2026

The hidden costs of outsourced integrations: why owning your data layer matters

Every time an external partner manages your data architecture, you give up control. Sometimes rightly so. But do you always know what you're giving up?

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28 February 2026

From Looker PDTs to dbt: How We Restructured a Data Warehouse

A practical account of migrating Looker Persistent Derived Tables to dbt, and why it delivered more than just performance gains.

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24 February 2026

Digital transformation without mandate: how to reach the decision-maker

Being technically right is not enough. The art is understanding who decides and how to reach that person.

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15 February 2026

How We Reduced the IT Budget by 60% Without Sacrificing Quality

An honest account of how strategic choices at an e-commerce company drastically reduced IT costs and made the organization stronger.

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3 February 2026

Azure API Management as integration hub: one gateway, multiple systems

When you have five systems each with their own authentication mechanism, you don't have an API problem. You have an architecture problem.

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27 January 2026

Machine learning in rehabilitation care: from patient data to treatment prognosis

How we built an ML platform on Google Cloud that predicts treatment outcomes based on 51 patient characteristics. From laptop to production.

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20 January 2026

From FTP to API: how to modernize a legacy data connection

Sending CSV files via FTP was already a stopgap in 2005. In 2026 it's a risk. On the step-by-step path to event-driven integration.

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8 December 2025

From connector to strategic advisor: how a technical project grows into a data partnership

How a simple EHR connection can grow into a broad strategic data partnership. Our approach in healthcare.

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10 November 2025

GCP as a foundation for healthcare analytics: architecture choices that matter

From BigQuery to Cloud Run Jobs: concrete choices, trade-offs and an unexpected lesson about cost optimization for healthcare data on Google Cloud.

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20 October 2025

Data quality: why validation takes longer than you think

Practical lessons from an ML implementation. How seemingly small data deviations have major consequences for model outcomes.

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15 September 2025

From EHR to insight: how a healthcare clinic brought its data to the cloud

How we unlocked an EHR system without export capabilities to BigQuery and Power BI, with a custom-built connector on Google Cloud.

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