by zaheer mitasys | Oct 1, 2026 | Glossary
Medallion architecture is a data design pattern that organizes a lakehouse into three layers of increasing quality: bronze for raw data exactly as it arrived, silver for data that has been cleansed and conformed, and gold for business-ready tables built for reporting...
by zaheer mitasys | Oct 1, 2026 | Glossary
Financial planning and analysis (FP&A) is the finance function that plans a company’s financial future and explains its financial present: it builds budgets and forecasts, compares them with actual results, and turns the differences into guidance leadership...
by zaheer mitasys | Oct 1, 2026 | Glossary
Data lineage is the record of where a piece of data came from, every system and transformation it passed through, and everywhere it is used downstream. It answers two questions about any number in a report: what produced it, and what would change if its source...
by zaheer mitasys | Oct 1, 2026 | Glossary
Conversational analytics is the practice of asking questions of business data in everyday language and getting answers back as figures, charts or short written explanations, with the option to ask a follow-up. Instead of opening a dashboard and setting filters, a user...
by zaheer mitasys | Sep 30, 2026 | Glossary
Bank reconciliation is the process of comparing the cash balance in a company’s own records (the cash book, or the cash account in the general ledger) with the balance on the bank statement for the same date, and explaining every difference between the two. When...
