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Practitioner-level writing on enterprise AI adoption, data platform delivery, and Microsoft technology programs. One new note a month — written by the VNode ITeS delivery team.
AI Readiness: The Work That Happens Before You Touch a Model
Organisations that struggle to get value from enterprise AI investments almost never fail because of model capability. They fail because the data is not ready, the teams are not aligned, and the governance layer does not exist. This post outlines the readiness work that precedes meaningful AI adoption.
Microsoft Fabric in the Enterprise: Beyond the Pilot
Microsoft Fabric unifies lakehouses, data warehouses, real-time intelligence, and Power BI into a single SaaS platform. Yet many enterprise teams struggle to move from an approved pilot to production workloads. This post unpacks the patterns we see in teams that succeed — and the organisational friction that trips up the rest.
RAG in Production: Architecture Decisions That Actually Matter
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has become the dominant pattern for grounding enterprise LLM applications in proprietary data. Yet most organisations underestimate the architecture decisions required to move from a working demo to a production system that is accurate, cost-controlled, and auditable.
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