Your next dashboard should be a Data App

​Most BI rollouts focus on replacing old dashboards with new dashboards but fail at replacing the shadow workflows. Users still export to CSV, rebuild their pivot tables, and rely on error-prone manual processes to complete their daily tasks. The new tool becomes another layer in the same broken process. The fix isn't a better dashboard. It's a different shape of solution.

​A dashboard shows you the number. A data app lets you act on it without leaving the analytics layer. The action writes back to the warehouse under governed SQL, with the same permissions and audit trail as anything else stored there. The work and the analysis happen in the same place, on the same data, at the same time.

​The pattern shows up everywhere once you start looking for it:

🏦 Finance teams submit forecasts directly against live actuals, with scenario modelling on the same screen.

🤑 Sales ops edit forecasts in-dashboard and capture standardised loss reasons at the point of churn.

🤹 Operations replace email approval chains with governed, audit-tracked workflows where the data already lives.

GlobalData and Ceres Pharma have built theirs in production – and we'll show you how.

​Join this live session to watch me build a data app from scratch, and bring the use case you've been trying to solve.