Anika Bose

Great start. Would be great to have a dedicated thread each month where the team shares what they're working on — builds a lot of trust with the community.

Hoping that native scheduled/time-based triggers become a feature. Having to maintain an external Fabric pipeline just to trigger date-based workflows feels like unnecessary complexity for most users.

Welcome! Data engineers are genuinely underrepresented in this community. Your perspective on OneLake shortcuts and mirroring will be really valuable here.

The key insight with Sankey for retail is defining your journey stages clearly first (Prospect → Browser → Basket → Checkout → Purchase → Return). Each transition is an edge in the graph.

This would lower the barrier significantly for finance teams who want statistical baselines but don't have data scientists. Even a simple linear trend or exponential smoothing option in the forecast initialisation wizard would cover 80% of use cases.