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The Four Modes of Communication Every Data Professional Should Master
Most people approach every conversation the same way. They prepare their content, rehearse their points, and walk in ready to deliver. What they rarely ask is: what is this conversation actually for?
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Tony Zeljkovic
2026-01-30
Case Study
Data Engineering
Cloud
Healthcare
Beyond BI: How a Healthcare Scaleup Built a Data App Platform That Cut Costs 70% and Shipped 5x More Applications
How Narona Data partnered with a rapidly growing U.S. healthcare scaleup to build a Streamlit-on-Kubernetes data application platform that replaced costly BI tooling, cut costs 70%, and enabled 5x more data applications.
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Tony Zeljkovic
2025-05-22
Case Study
Data Engineering
Cost Optimization
DevOps
From dbt Cloud to Core: How a Tech Company Saved $100K+ and Got the Flexibility dbt Cloud Couldn't Offer
How Narona Data migrated a high-growth tech company from dbt Cloud to dbt Core with zero downtime, saving over $100K annually while delivering custom tooling that dbt Cloud couldn't match.
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Tony Zeljkovic
2025-04-15
Case Study
Healthcare
Data Governance
Analytics
Smart Scaling: How a Healthcare Provider Governed 100K+ Columns of Sensitive Data in Two Weeks — at 10x Less Than SaaS
How Narona Data helped a U.S. healthcare provider automate data governance across 100K+ columns in Snowflake, achieving 24/7 HIPAA/HITECH compliance at a fraction of SaaS pricing.
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Tony Zeljkovic
2025-03-10
Case Study
Healthcare
Cloud
Data Engineering
Cloud-Driven Genomics: How a Diagnostics Firm Cut Genome Processing to Under 2 Hours and Slashed Costs 60%
How Narona Data partnered with a diagnostics firm to deliver a cloud-based genome processing pipeline, reducing genome processing times to under two hours and cutting infrastructure costs by 60%.
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Tony Zeljkovic
2025-02-05