🧾 Incident Summary: Discrepancies were identified between the Headcount report and the Management Accounts (MA) reporting figures. The headcount submission process also suffered from data entry issues, retrospective updates, and manual effort required to maintain alignment across periods. 🔍 Root Cause Analysis 1. Inconsistent Timing of Submissions 2. Differences in Ownership and Definition 3. Submission … Read more
🔹 Minor Incident Report (MIR) Definition:A Minor Incident Report documents issues that do not materially impact core reporting outputs, system availability, or regulatory obligations, but still highlight: Purpose: Examples: 🔸 Serious Incident Report (SIR) Definition:A Serious Incident Report is raised when the incident: Purpose: Examples: 🚨 Deciding Between Minor and Serious You can use this … Read more
This proposal outlines a phased approach to broaden the scope of our Data Engineering capability, incorporating Microsoft Fabric as a unified analytics platform and evolving our approach to include foundational elements of AI Engineering. The goal is to create an agile, scalable, and intelligent data platform that supports operational analytics, predictive insights, and innovation. 1. … Read more
Commercially sensitive data includes any information that, if compromised, lost, or disclosed without authorisation, could cause moderate financial, competitive, reputational, or operational harm to the organisation. Handling such data requires additional care to ensure compliance with internal policies, contractual obligations, and regulatory requirements. 1. Key Characteristics of Commercially Sensitive Data Commercially sensitive data typically falls … Read more
In its most basic definition, sensitive data is a specific set of “special categories”: Article 9 of the GDPR prohibits special category data from being processed unless you can rely on an exemption.
This draft framework provides a robust SLA for DataMart availability, balancing business needs, technical feasibility, and stakeholder communication. 1. Availability Target Set a clear uptime percentage that aligns with the criticality of the DataMart to your business processes. 2. Operational Hours Define the expected operational hours of the DataMart. Specify if it needs to be … Read more
Microsoft Fabric is designed to integrate multiple analytics workloads, including data engineering, data science, and business intelligence, within a unified platform. While our current Medallion structure already has a logical progression of data refinement (Bronze → Silver → Gold), there are key differences in architecture, tooling, and approach that we might consider while emulating a … Read more
BMT’s reporting strategy aims to maximize data use through data governance, Microsoft-based and native IFS technologies, and a common data model for accuracy and consistency. This will enable advanced analytics to enhance decision-making. The strategy also includes the implementation of a federated data governance model, where regional businesses will follow a centralised set of Data … Read more
These requirements have been derived to align with the Business Processes to shown alignment to the level 1 and level 2 processes arranged by business use case. ID Use Case Requirement L1 Process L2 Process Metric and Purpose Report Type Business Owner 1 Statutory Reporting / Board Campaign Summary Opportunity Management Lead Management Summarise the … Read more
14.1 Key Points In this section, we summarise the critical elements of the Reporting Strategy that have been discussed throughout the document. 14.2 Benefits and Outcomes This section outlines the advantages and expected results of implementing the Reporting Strategy. The table below provides a concise overview of the key points and their corresponding benefits and … Read more