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Power Automate for Finance Teams: Cloud Flows and Approvals Explained
A plain guide to Power Automate cloud flows, triggers, connectors and approvals for finance teams, based on Microsoft Learn documentation, with governance pointers.
UiPath Studio, Attended and Unattended Robots, and Orchestrator Explained for Finance Teams
What UiPath Studio, attended and unattended robots and Orchestrator are, as UiPath's documentation describes them, with practical points for finance teams.
What Counts as an AI System? The EU AI Act Definition and Commission Guidelines
How Article 3 of the EU AI Act defines an AI system, the seven elements in the Commission's guidelines, what falls outside, and how employers can scope their tools.
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APIs for Finance Teams Explained: REST, OpenAPI and Open Banking
A plain-language guide to APIs for finance teams: REST, endpoints, OpenAPI descriptions and the open banking idea behind PSD2, based on official documentation.
Data Strategy for the Finance Function: What the EU and Irish Public Service Data Strategies Say
What the European strategy for data and Ireland's Public Service Data Strategy say, and how finance teams can borrow their ideas on governance, quality and capability.
Data Security for Finance Teams: Classification, Access Control and GDPR Article 32
How finance teams can apply GDPR Article 32 with DPC and NCSC guidance: classification, access control, encryption, logging and the 72-hour breach rule.
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Data Ethics for Finance Teams: Principles from the EU Trustworthy AI Guidelines and GDPR
How the EU Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI and the seven GDPR principles can shape practical data ethics questions for finance teams in Ireland.
The EU Data Act: Connected Products, Data Sharing and Cloud Switching Explained
A summary of Regulation (EU) 2023/2854 based on Commission pages: connected product data, data sharing, cloud switching, key dates and Irish implementation.
The EU Data Governance Act: What It Means for Irish Businesses
A plain guide to Regulation (EU) 2022/868: public sector data reuse, data intermediation services, data altruism, the Data Innovation Board and the CCPC's role in Ireland.
Choosing the Right Chart: Data Visualisation for Finance Reports
How to choose and label charts for finance reports, using the UK Government Analysis Function's published chart guidance as a reference (UK method guidance, not Irish rules).
Alteryx Designer for Finance Teams: Workflows and Data Preparation Explained
How Alteryx's own documentation describes Designer workflows, tools, joins, summaries and scheduling, and how finance teams might think about data preparation.
Alteryx Intelligence Suite: Machine Learning and Text Mining for Finance Data
What Alteryx's own documentation says the Intelligence Suite contains, how its machine learning and text mining tools work, and what finance teams should check first.