Permadyn Analytics Research

Evidence for better data and analytics decisions.

Technical research and practical field notes across reporting, data platforms, governance, automation, delivery, and the operating contexts where the systems are used.

PE operating analytics · 5 min read

A first-100-days data plan for a private equity portfolio company

Turn the first 100 days into a sequence of evidence, ownership, and accepted reporting improvements. Includes a synthetic reconciliation and a practical project brief.Read insight

PE operating analytics · 5 min read

Mapping an acquired company's accounts without losing reporting history

Build an acquisition account-mapping contract with source identity, effective dates, sign conventions, exception handling, and reconciliation. Includes a synthetic mapping example.Read insight

PE operating analytics · 5 min read

Separate organic and acquired revenue growth in portfolio reporting

Build a revenue-growth bridge with explicit populations, acquisition contribution, divestitures, and currency effects. Includes two synthetic calculations and a comparison contract.Read insight

PE operating analytics · 5 min read

Build a portfolio revenue and EBITDA bridge that reconciles

Connect revenue movement to an EBITDA bridge without counting volume, price, or costs twice. Includes a synthetic calculation and a reusable driver-definition record.Read insight

PE operating analytics · 5 min read

Portfolio working-capital analytics: balances, drivers, and cash evidence

Compare working capital across portfolio companies without summing period-end balances or treating every reduction as cash release. Includes a synthetic balance and movement bridge.Read insight

PE operating analytics · 5 min read

Integrate reporting after a healthcare add-on acquisition

Preserve location history, source cutoffs, claims maturity, and labor definitions when onboarding a healthcare acquisition. Includes synthetic duplicate and timing examples.Read insight

Private capital reporting · 5 min read

Design an investor reporting exception register that supports release decisions

Turn source and calculation failures into a reviewable fund-reporting exception register. Includes synthetic capital-activity checks, ownership fields, and release criteria.Read insight

Private capital reporting · 5 min read

Correct a released private capital report without losing the original record

Handle late valuations and reporting corrections with an impact assessment, versioned calculations, approval, and an explicit replacement record. Includes a synthetic NAV revision.Read insight

PE operating analytics · 3 minute read

Standardizing portfolio-company KPIs across accounting systems

Define comparable revenue, EBITDA, and working capital across portfolio companies, with account mappings, weighted calculations, and a reusable KPI contract.Read insight

Private capital reporting · 3 minute read

Designing a quarterly private equity investor reporting workflow

A practical preparation-to-approval workflow for quarterly investor reporting, with source cutoffs, NAV reconciliation, version history, and release controls.Read insight

PE operating analytics · 3 minute read

Automating monthly portfolio reporting with reconciliation and approvals

Turn recurring portfolio-company submissions into a controlled monthly reporting cycle, with a worked reconciliation example and practical release checklist.Read insight

Private capital reporting · 3 minute read

Reconciling contributions, distributions, NAV, and performance multiples

Trace DPI, RVPI, and TVPI to their inputs, reconcile a quarterly NAV bridge, and handle undefined denominators using a transparent synthetic example.Read insight

PE operating analytics · 3 minute read

Building a private equity portfolio dashboard in Power BI

Design a portfolio-company Power BI model with weighted margins, period snapshots, source coverage, exceptions, and access tests before styling the dashboard.Read insight

Private capital reporting · 3 minute read

Preparing source data and controls for ILPA reporting templates

Map the applicable ILPA template to source fields, definitions, validation, and owners before automating reporting. Includes an original readiness worksheet.Read insight

PE operating analytics · 3 minute read

Keeping portfolio reporting comparable after acquisitions

Separate acquired contribution from comparable growth, preserve effective-dated account mappings, and onboard a new portfolio company without rewriting history.Read insight

Private capital reporting · 3 minute read

Private capital reporting software or custom analytics: how to choose

Compare packaged reporting, a custom analytics layer, and a hybrid approach using a representative reporting pack and a practical acceptance matrix.Read insight

Healthcare analytics · 7 minute read

What healthcare operational analytics must preserve

Healthcare analytics has to improve operating visibility without erasing source meaning, access boundaries, or accountable review.Read insight

Healthcare platforms · 8 minute read

Choose a healthcare analytics platform from the workload outward

A practical selection method for Fabric, Snowflake, Databricks, another cloud platform, or the environment already in place.Read insight

Platforms · 2 minute read

Power BI and Snowflake are one performance system

Why report performance cannot be solved reliably by tuning only the warehouse or only the semantic model.Read insight

Strategy · 2 minute read

What a data-platform assessment should actually produce

A useful assessment creates decisions, priority, and a delivery path rather than a long technical inventory.Read insight

Automation · 1 minute read

Automate reporting without losing the controls inside it

Manual reporting contains necessary judgment and unnecessary repetition. Modernization depends on telling them apart.Read insight

Governance · 5 minute read

Governed metrics come before self-service and AI

More access and more capable tools amplify both shared meaning and unresolved disagreement.Read insight

Provider operations · 9 minute read

A KPI architecture for multi-site provider operations

A practical model for connecting census, access, labor, claims, finance, location, and quality measures without collapsing their meaning.Read insight

Healthcare data quality · 9 minute read

Reconciling claims, census, labor, and finance for operating review

A control framework for joining healthcare operating domains while keeping timing, grain, corrections, and source authority visible.Read insight

Platform decisions · 10 minute read

Fabric versus Snowflake: a healthcare workload scorecard

Compare platforms against the production workload, operating model, security boundary, economics, and skills instead of a generic feature list.Read insight

Reporting modernization · 3 minute read

A diagnostic framework for rescuing fragile reporting

How to stabilize a reporting estate by tracing business consequences through sources, transformations, semantic models, refresh, access, and release.Read insight

Specialty research

Healthcare methods and synthetic proof remain available.

The healthcare collection is one deep specialty within a broader research program. Its evidence labels keep synthetic implementation, published method, and anonymized experience distinct.