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    Why Your AI Adoption Isn’t Happening (And How to Fix It)

    Sam "Betty" McKoy

    Most organisations do the easy half of AI adoption, buying licenses, then stall. The hard half is structural: protected time, safety to fail, and understanding what motivates people. Value gets discovered, not designed. Real adoption spreads bottom-up, person to person. The first move? Buy back the time people need to experiment.

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    Microsoft Fabric's Real ROI, Part 2: What Actually Drives the Return

    Alan Grainer

    The Forrester study financial results were based on a scale well beyond the size of most organisations in many economies. This is not the end of the conversation; it is the beginning. The analysis from Northern Europe on licensing and capacity provides useful context. However, they are not the full story on the return on investment that Fabric delivers. There are several measurable factors to consider when developing a business case.

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    Microsoft Fabric's Real ROI, Part 1: Where The Data Meets Reality

    Alan Grainer

    Microsoft Fabric's headline 379% ROI is hard to ignore—and two years on, with 25,000 customers, we know those returns are real. But they're not universal. Organization size, data workloads, and deployment approach make all the difference. Here's what the latest analysis reveals about who actually wins with Fabric, where mid-market organizations get caught out, and why upfront assessment matters more than the headline number.

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    How Can Non-profits Connect Their Data?

    Doug Wilman

    Behind New Zealand's largest predator-proof fence, a conservation team was drowning in disconnected data. We helped Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari go from nine siloed systems to one unified platform. No big-bang rollout, just steady, proven progress. It's a story about data meeting mission, and it's not unique to conservation.

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