by Nick Lupis | Jun 30, 2026 | Insights
Good businesses understand where they have been and what is happening now. Great businesses use that same data to get ahead of what is coming next. Without that forward view, reports explain last quarter, dashboards flag last month’s problems, and spreadsheets quietly...
by Nick Lupis | Jun 30, 2026 | Insights
Predictive analytics gives businesses a better way to plan when the old “wait for the report” approach isn’t moving quickly enough. Instead of only showing what’s already happened, it helps teams identify patterns, forecast likely outcomes, and respond before small...
by Nick Lupis | Jun 23, 2026 | Insights
For many New Zealand businesses, AI feels like it has gone from interesting to unavoidable in record time. One moment, it was a topic reserved for technology conferences. The next, every software platform seemed to launch an AI feature, and every industry discussion...
by Nick Lupis | Jun 23, 2026 | Insights
Artificial intelligence has quickly become the boardroom’s favourite topic. Every week seems to bring another announcement about AI-powered tools, automated decision-making, or organisations claiming dramatic productivity gains. The challenge is that many...
by Grant Buckley | Sep 24, 2019 | All, FIRN Disrupting, Learn with FIRN
Data analytics tools Excel is a data analytics software tool that has been used for years by organisations to perform data analysis. At a glance it seems like the perfect data analytics tool. You’re able to manipulate data, run calculations and then create charts and...
