by Tara Black | Apr 20, 2026 | Data & Analytics
The pilot worked.The model produced results. The demo landed well. Stakeholders saw the potential, and for a brief moment it felt like momentum was finally on your side.Then everything slowed down.This is the part of the AI journey that nobody puts on the roadmap; the...
by Tara Black | Apr 13, 2026 | Data & Analytics
Modernization has never been more urgent, or more uncertain.Organizations know they need to move. Legacy systems are slowing operations, data is fragmented, and AI initiatives are stalling without a reliable foundation to build on. Yet despite that urgency, many...
by Tara Black | Mar 25, 2026 | Data & Analytics
Partnerships are only as valuable as the expertise behind them.Syngentic has built its Databricks practice around a straightforward belief: knowing what a platform can do is not enough. You have to know how to apply it, where it breaks down under real constraints, and...
by Tara Black | Feb 25, 2026 | Data & Analytics
There’s a rule we should apply to every government AI engagement: if it can’t cite sources, it shouldn’t answer.It sounds simple, but it rules out the majority of AI deployments we see today, and it’s the reason so many of them are quietly...
by Tara Black | Feb 25, 2026 | Data & Analytics, Uncategorized
Data sharing is supposed to make organizations faster. In practice, it often makes them nervous.A team in operations needs access to maintenance records. Finance wants to pull asset cost data. A government program manager needs to run a compliance report. Everyone has...
by Tara Black | Feb 25, 2026 | Data & Analytics
State and local governments have accumulated years of transactional data inside SAP such as: procurement records, vendor histories, budget actuals, and contract lifecycles. The data exists. The problem is that it rarely reaches the people who need to act on it, in a...
