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Notes from the field — public sector data, contracts, and care.

Practical writing on what's working (and what isn't) inside the governments and aged care providers we partner with. Opinions, not press releases.

Local Government · Featured

Why Australian councils need a data warehouse strategy in 2026

The procurement deadlines for Microsoft Fabric migration are getting closer, and most councils still don't have a clear position on whether to consolidate, federate, or stay on legacy.

12 Mar 2026 · 8 min read

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Contract Management

Contract intelligence is the discipline most councils still treat as a filing cabinet

When the next bank guarantee expires, the next renewal triggers, the next supplier underperforms — do you find out from your system or from the supplier?

Aged Care

What makes a successful AlayaCare integration in aged care

Three things that separate clean integrations from the ones that quietly produce bad data for years before anyone notices.

Cloud & Data

Cloud cost optimisation: where local government typically overpays

We've reviewed several council Azure estates over the past 12 months. Five patterns explain most of the over-spend — and four of them are easy fixes.

Cloud & Data

From spreadsheet to single source: a council's first 90 days on Power BI

A practical week-by-week guide to going from a hundred Excel files to one trusted reporting layer — without breaking the operations that depend on the spreadsheets.

Digital Health

Digital health systems at national scale — lessons from comparable programmes

Estonia, Rwanda, Thailand, India. Four national programmes, four very different starting points, four sets of mistakes worth not repeating.

Contract Management

Bank guarantees: the slow-motion governance failure

An expired guarantee that no-one renews is often the cheapest contract risk to fix — and the most embarrassing one when it surfaces in audit.

Local Government

VendorPanel, Tenderlink, Local Buy: which marketplace, when?

An honest comparison of the three main Australian council procurement platforms — from a vendor that has tendered through all of them.

Aged Care

The reporting burden after the Aged Care Act — what we're seeing

Twelve months in, providers are still reshaping reporting. The technical work isn't the hard part. The semantic alignment with the regulator is.

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