What if you had to reply to more than 200 emails every single day? During one of my training sessions, a participant caught my attention — or rather, he didn’t pay attention. He spent most of the day staring at…
I started my professional journey in finance with Excel. Like millions of others, I learned how to import and structure data, automate processes, and build financial models that became the backbone of decision-making. Excel was something you picked up on…
Alert! This is happening — and you need to act now. Forget waiting for the next management meeting or the weekly report. This alert system monitors your most critical KPIs continuously — and notifies you the moment something important happens.…
In the previous article, we trained a predictive model in Python to forecast product demand based on daily features like store ID, price, discounts, and promotions. We also saw how to operationalize that model locally using Azure Functions — turning…
In the previous article, I demonstrated how to train a machine learning model in Python to forecast daily product demand for a retail business. Now it’s time to take that model from a notebook into a real-world environment — where…
Inventory management is a critical challenge for most retail businesses. Overstocking ties up capital and increases the risk of obsolescence. Understocking, on the other hand, leads to lost sales, customer dissatisfaction, and potential long-term brand damage. That’s why accurate demand…
I have been playing around with some simple data visuals on Power Apps. This is an area that clearly needs improvement, in my humble opinion, since the default canvas Power Apps charts are really not that amazing and because in…
Artificial intelligence (AI) is for business today what the Internet was 25 years ago, at the dawn of the new millennium. Some — the enthusiastic and the innovative — see an opportunity in this brave new world. Others, more skeptical…
In this article, we will explore several artificial intelligence features in Power BI applied to a telecommunications company. Key Influencers analysis will help us identify the main factors driving churn, highlighting the impact of high daytime charges, the number of…
AI Builder Anomaly Detection in Power Platform allows organizations to improve their financial processes. This is the third case of intelligent automation in financial processes in this article series on using the Power Platform’s AI Builder focuses on anomaly detection…