DAANALYTICS

Turning Data Complexity into Better Decisions

I help mid-market organizations turn data into better decisions by getting the foundations right: platform, governance, semantics and architecture.

Whether you're modernizing legacy BI, evaluating Snowflake, exploring sovereign alternatives, or trying to make sense of an increasingly complicated data landscape, I help you focus on what actually matters.

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DOES THIS SOUND FAMILIAR?

The technology is rarely the hardest part. Deciding what actually needs to change is.

Your existing platform is becoming a constraint.

Legacy BI, data warehouses and reporting platforms still work, but they are becoming harder to maintain, scale and evolve.

You need an independent view on your next platform.

You're considering Snowflake, cloud-native services, hybrid deployment or a sovereign alternative, but vendor comparisons aren't answering the real question: what fits your organization?

People have data, but don't fully trust it.

Dashboards exist, but definitions, ownership, semantics and lineage are still unclear — so governance never becomes practical.

Data sovereignty is becoming strategic.

Where your data lives, who controls the infrastructure and how dependent you are on hyperscalers increasingly matter at board level.

HOW I CAN HELP

Three areas where I add the most value

Practical guidance for organizations modernizing their data landscape without adding unnecessary complexity.

Modern Data Platforms

Make informed platform decisions across Snowflake, Dividos, cloud, hybrid and sovereign deployment models.

The starting point is your business, compliance, technology, people and budget, not a vendor roadmap.

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Data Governance & Semantics

Establish ownership, shared definitions, lineage and semantic models so people can understand and trust the data they use.

Governance works best when it is designed into the data platform from the start, not added as a separate programme afterwards.

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Data Platform Strategy

Simplify architecture and choose technology based on business needs, capabilities, cost, compliance and sovereignty.

Sometimes modernization means replacing technology. Sometimes it means making better use of what you already have.

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Why work
with me?

20+ years in Data & Analytics

Snowflake Data Superhero since 2018

Governance & Semantics foundation-first

Dutch Snowflake User Group Chapter Lead

ABOUT DAAN

Experience without the transformation theatre

I'm Daan Bakboord, a Data Platform Strategist & Architect. I've worked in Data & Analytics for more than 20 years, from enterprise BI and data warehousing to Snowflake, modern data platforms, governance and semantics.

I help organizations make important platform decisions before unnecessary complexity gets designed into the solution.

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DAANALYTICS INSIGHTS

Practical thinking on modern data

Snowflake, data governance, semantic models, architecture and the decisions organizations face when modernizing their data landscape.

“Dividos data architecture showing the contrast between hyperscaler lock-in and a modular, governed and sovereign data platform."

Data Platforms 07 Sep 2026

Three Reasons Smart Organizations Are Moving Beyond Reporting: Why You Should See Dividos at Data Expo Utrecht

Why sovereignty, modular architecture and governed semantics matter, and what Dividos demonstrates at Data Expo Utrecht.

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Governance & Semantics 02 Sep 2026

Context Before Agents: What Snowflake’s Semantic Layer Means in Practice

AI agents attract the attention, but governed business context determines whether they can be trusted. A practical perspective on Snowflake Horizon Context, Cortex Sense and the semantic foundation organizations need before deploying agentic AI.

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