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AI roadmapAI roadmap for manufacturing: from plant data to agents
Your AI pilot works on one line and never reaches the second plant. Here is the four-stage roadmap I use to fix that, with worked examples from presses, rolling mills and planning desks.
· 12 min read
AI roadmapRetail AI roadmap: from clean data to AI agents
Most retailers have plenty of data and little trust in it. This retail AI roadmap fixes product, stock and customer data first, then adds governed AI, agents for forecasting, pricing and service, and AI across the business.
· 12 min read
DatabricksUnity Catalog in Databricks: governance set up properly
Unity Catalog is the governance layer for everything in Databricks: one place to control access, track lineage and prove who touched what. Here is how it works and how to design it so it still makes sense in year three.
· 11 min read
SnowflakeSnowflake architecture explained, and what it is used for
Snowflake is a cloud data platform that keeps storage, compute and coordination in three separate layers. Here is how that architecture works, what companies use it for, and where it is not the right fit.
· 10 min read
Written by Noel D'Costa
25 years in ERP delivery across SAP, Oracle and Microsoft, now a chief technology officer. I write from the programmes I have run, for the people making these decisions.
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