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How the Data Market Is Really Changing: What Did Not Happen — and What Comes Next
Over the past few years, the data and business intelligence market has been surrounded by bold predictions. Artificial intelligence was expected to replace junior data analysts, business intelligence tools were supposed to become fully no-code, and decision-making was promised to become almost automatic. As we move forward, it is becoming clear that many of these […]
Visual Analytics for Marketing Teams: Turning Data Into Decisions, Not Just Dashboards
In modern marketing environments, teams operate in a landscape where advertising platforms generate millions of impressions, customer journeys span across multiple channels, and budgets need to demonstrate measurable ROI faster than ever. Under these conditions, visual analytics for marketing teams has shifted from a helpful addition to an operational necessity, because it enables companies to […]
Why Data Therapy Is the Right Framework for Modern Business Analytics
In recent years, many companies have invested heavily in business intelligence tools, analytics platforms, and data dashboards, yet a surprisingly large number of them still struggle to make confident, timely decisions based on their data. This paradox is exactly why the concept of Data Therapy resonates so strongly and why it has become a useful […]
Annual Results & Growth Summary: 2025 Performance, Key Milestones and Strategic Outlook for 2026
2025 became an important year for Data Never Lies — both in terms of business performance and market positioning in the global Business Intelligence and data analytics services landscape. We closed the year with 87% year-over-year revenue growth, driven primarily by an increase in average contract value, project duration and engagement depth. While the number […]
Data Dashboards for eCommerce Performance Tracking: Turning Metrics into Profitable Decisions
In eCommerce, growth rarely fails because of a lack of data. It fails because data is fragmented, delayed, or disconnected from decision-making. Orders are growing, traffic looks healthy, marketing spend keeps increasing — yet profitability remains unclear, and teams argue over numbers instead of acting on them. This is precisely where data dashboards for eCommerce […]
Why businesses wait too long to fix reporting problems — and what it really costs
Many companies live with small but persistent inefficiencies in their reporting and analytics systems for far longer than they should. The data is available, reports exist, and decisions are being made, yet something always feels harder than necessary. Numbers need to be manually checked, sources reconciled, and metrics verified before anyone can confidently act. This […]
Green Flags to Look for in Data Analysts
How to identify strong data analytics talent beyond the CV Hiring data analysts has become significantly more complex over the past few years, not because there are fewer candidates, but because there are more of them, and many look similar on paper. Almost everyone lists SQL, dashboards, Python, cloud platforms, and “business insights” on their […]
BI Dashboards for SaaS Metrics: LTV, Churn, CAC and Sustainable Growth
For Software as a Service (SaaS) companies, data is not a supporting function — it is the operating system of the business. Pricing decisions, growth strategy, hiring plans, and even product roadmaps are shaped by a small set of core metrics that describe how customers are acquired, monetised, and retained. Business Intelligence (BI) dashboards for […]
Data therapy: unlocking business growth with actionable insights
In today’s fast-paced business world, data is the key to growth. However, businesses often get stuck not because of a lack of data, but because they fail to fully understand or leverage it. Just like personal therapy helps individuals unlock their emotions and improve their mental health, Data Therapy helps businesses unlock the full potential […]
Why the Most Dangerous Thing for Your Business is Not Making Decisions
After working with data and business owners for over 10 years, one thing has become crystal clear to me: The biggest risk for a business is not making decisions. We are all scared of making the wrong choice – whether it’s the “wrong” channel, “wrong” pricing, or “wrong” hire. And because we’re afraid, we end […]
An Insight of This Year That Became an Eye-Opener: Why Speed Matters More Than Perfect Dashboards
Over the years, we’ve been focused on creating polished, visually appealing, and highly functional dashboards for our clients. For a long time, I thought that was the primary value we were providing. After all, dashboards are at the heart of business intelligence. They present data in a way that’s easy to understand, make decisions faster, […]
What Makes Scaling a Business Intelligence Company Truly Difficult — and Why It Matters for Clients
Growing a company in the fields of business intelligence (BI), data analytics, and decision-support systems is often perceived as a purely technical challenge. Many assume the complexity lies in hiring data engineers, building ETL pipelines, designing Power BI dashboards, or maintaining a reliable analytics infrastructure. In reality, the most difficult part of scaling a BI […]
How we broke our own rule in 2025 and what we’ll do about it
We have two slogans at Data Never Lies. The external one is clean, simple, and easy to remember: Data Never Lies. And the internal one — the one that quietly governs how we work, make decisions, and ship projects — is a bit more philosophical: “Keep your focus. Keep your promises.” With clients, we follow […]
KPI Dashboards for Real Estate & Property Management:
Why Data Finally Matters More Than Square Meters In most real estate and property-management companies, operational conversations still revolve around physical assets — the square meters leased, the facilities maintained, the tenants onboarded — while the digital “assets” of the business, namely data, remain scattered across spreadsheets, emails, accounting tools, and property-management platforms. Yet as […]
Companies usually approach us when they need help with business intelligence, data analytics, dashboard development, or reporting automation. Most of the time, we can help immediately, but there are situations where starting a full BI project is not the right move yet. Explaining this clearly is important, because the value of a BI engagement depends […]
Marketing ROI Dashboards for Agencies: How to Build Reliable, Actionable Reporting That Clients Trust
For modern marketing agencies, the ability to clearly demonstrate Return on Investment (ROI) has become one of the most critical factors that determine whether clients continue long-term cooperation, scale budgets, or reconsider their strategic direction. As marketing channels multiply, customer journeys become more fragmented, and data sources grow increasingly complex, agencies need reporting systems that […]
What Companies Most Often Request from DNL and How We Built a Process to Deliver Business Intelligence Fast
Across hundreds of conversations with potential clients, one request appears more frequently than any other: an urgent need to develop or redesign business intelligence dashboards, improve reporting quality, or stabilise existing analytics processes. Although companies often describe the problem as “we need a dashboard,” the true challenge is almost always deeper. Most organisations approach us […]
How modern analytics transforms hotel performance, operations, and guest experience
The hospitality industry operates in a fast-moving, high-pressure environment where margins are sensitive, demand changes daily, and operational efficiency directly impacts guest satisfaction. In this context, Power BI has become one of the most effective tools for building a unified operational view across properties, teams, and data sources, allowing hotels, resorts, and hospitality groups to […]
When Data Stops Helping: Understanding and Overcoming Data Paralysis in Business Intelligence
Modern companies are generating more data than ever before. Every department — from marketing to finance — now relies on business intelligence systems to monitor performance, track metrics, and guide decisions. Yet, despite having advanced dashboards and well-structured analytics pipelines, many organisations face a silent obstacle: data paralysis. It’s the phenomenon where the sheer amount […]
When Data Meets Imagination: Predictive Analytics for a Virtual Modelling Agency
At Data Never Lies, we work with clients from very different industries — from finance and healthcare to e-commerce and creative technologies. But some projects stand out even for us. One of the most unusual cases we’ve ever worked on involved a virtual modelling agency that creates AI-generated digital models for films, advertising, and brand […]
Government Intelligence: what if countries made decisions like companies do
Working with companies of all sizes, I often catch myself thinking about how business intelligence — dashboards, analytics, modeling, and data-driven decision-making — could change not just organisations, but governments. Every day, we help businesses use verified data to make faster and smarter decisions. We build systems that show what’s happening now, forecast what could […]
Connect GA4 and HubSpot to Power BI / Looker Studio: A Practical Guide
In today’s analytics-driven world, bringing together data from your website and your customer-relationship management (CRM) system is more than a nice-to-have. It is essential. Integrating Google Analytics 4 and HubSpot into your business-intelligence stack unlocks unified insights, enables smarter dashboards, and ensures decision-makers see the full story. This article explains how to connect GA4 and […]
What really matters when growing from $1M to $10M
This year, our company crossed an important threshold — we moved into the “one to ten million” revenue cohort. It still feels a little unreal when I say it out loud. Two and a half years of experiments, mistakes, and bold steps later, we are finally here. And looking ahead, in the next 3-4 years, […]
Building a data culture: how to make business intelligence part of daily work
Every company talks about being data-driven. Few actually are. Most businesses today already have business intelligence (BI) tools — dashboards, reports, metrics, analytics platforms. But what truly separates those that use BI from those that live it is not technology. It is culture. A data culture means that people in the company make decisions not […]
Better a fast wrong decision than a slow one
We’ve been thinking a lot about how companies make decisions, especially after almost ten years of working with data and business intelligence. And we keep coming back to one simple truth: It’s almost always better to make a wrong decision quickly than to delay making any decision at all. Let us explain. When we look […]
How machine learning helps detect anomalies and early warning signals in business intelligence systems
Most companies today rely on business intelligence systems to track performance and guide decision-making. But as data grows, so does the noise. Somewhere inside that ocean of metrics, tiny shifts—early signs of risk or opportunity—can go unnoticed. That’s exactly where machine learning comes in. Instead of waiting for analysts to “notice something weird,” machine learning […]
Reducing churn before it happens: how early signals help retain customers
In today’s subscription-driven economy, retention matters as much as acquisition. For companies operating under the Software as a Service (SaaS) model — that is, businesses providing online software by subscription — reducing churn before it happens is a strategic imperative, not a nice-to-have. When you monitor the right early warning signs of churn, you give […]
When to outsource business intelligence and when to build it inside
Two types of functions in every company There are two types of functions in any company. The first group consists of those that you understand deeply — for us, that includes business analytics, project delivery, and partly sales. The second group covers everything where your expertise is limited or missing entirely. In our case, that […]
The most beautiful dashboard I’ve ever seen wasn’t ours
The best SaaS analytics dashboard I’ve ever seen wasn’t built by my team. It was built by our client — a global company with thousands of employees. We began by working with their SEO division. The C-level team asked us to prepare a Power BI report. We built a simple, clean foundation (it was nothing […]
Why AI for Business Intelligence Still Doesn’t Work (Yet)
Artificial intelligence promises a future where dashboards explain what went wrong, why it happened, and what to do next. One day, that vision will become reality. For now, the gap between expectations and results remains wide. The expectations Many believe that AI in business intelligence can automatically detect problems and opportunities, explain their causes, recommend […]