Budget
15 posts filed under Budget.
DBR Commit Discounts Math
Every platform vendor offers 20-30% for an annual commit. The discount is real. The forecast underneath it usually isn't.
Read →Compliance Investment ROI
A client built the same data inventory twice in 18 months. The first one was for the auditor.
Read →Platform Evolution Funding Map
Data platform changes have a good window and a bad one. Funding milestones tell you which is which.
Read →ETL Cost Benchmarks SME
An ETL cost audit cut a small team's bill by roughly a third. Same 4 patterns I always find.
Read →75% Belgian SMEs On AI Daily
Three in four Belgian SMEs now use AI daily or weekly. Most are running it on data they wouldn't trust for a board report.
Read →Your AI Initiative Is Blocked by Context, Not Tokens
The team bought more tokens. The agent still gave confident, wrong answers. The bottleneck was never compute.
Read →Hard Credit Caps On Cloud DWH Spend
Resource Monitors are uncomfortable on purpose. That's why they save money.
Read →NIS2 Reporting For Data Incidents
NIS2, DORA, and GDPR each want an incident report. Send the same one.
Read →The 306K Per Million Lines: What Technical Debt Actually Costs
Nobody budgets for technical debt. But it budgets itself - in slow changes, frequent bugs, and engineers who quit.
Read →Status Quo Is Never Free: Why Your 'Do Nothing' Option Has the Biggest Hidden Price
"Do nothing" is never free. One client's "zero cost" status quo was burning 200K a year in workarounds nobody tracked.
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