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I’m Vignesh Balasubramanian, a Data & Analytics leader with 20+ years of experience leading digital transformation initiatives and enterprise data strategy across Fortune 500 organizations.
DataChie is where I share actionable insights, strategic frameworks, and practical tools to help businesses unlock the full potential of their data.
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Transforming Data with Snowflake: From Raw Ingestion to Real-Time Insights
In today’s data-driven organizations, the ability to efficiently prepare, transform, and deliver actionable insights is a true differentiator. Snowflake’s modern ELT (Extract, Load, Transform) architecture, powerful automation, and seamless integration with BI tools position it as a best-in-class platform for data transformation. This post walks through Snowflake’s capabilities showing how managers and technical teams can deliver fresher dashboards, lower costs, and more reliable analytics, with less pipeline “glue code.” The ELT Advantage: Simplicity and Power
5 Keys for a successful Data Governance Program
If your organization wants to evolve its data practice toward a true DataOps framework, everything starts with a strong Data Governance Program. Over the next few years, many companies will pour serious resources into establishing—or maturing—their governance efforts, and yours may already be on that journey. Based on years of hands-on experience, here are five keys that consistently separate sustainable programs from short-lived initiatives. 1. Benchmark Your Maturity Across the Three Pillars Before making grand
Why ERP Data Conversion Projects Often Become Impossible — and How to Deliver Them Anyway
Unifying multiple ERP systems often seems straightforward: one system, one truth. However, ERP data conversions are far from simple technical tasks. They’re massive undertakings plagued by shifting priorities, misunderstood data, and unrealistic timelines, frequently becoming “impossible projects” that defy conventional project management. Despite these challenges, these projects must succeed. The key isn’t just understanding why they fail, but how to lead them effectively. Here are 10 rules for delivering these inherently difficult projects: 1. Internal
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