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Using on-the-fly data modeling to draft the optimal fantasy football team

Fantasy football drafts are a tricky business. Fantasy team owners must make split-second decisions about which available player will give their team the best chance to win the title, and at the end of the day, those choices are driven by data.
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Published:
September 19, 2016
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Data Story
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Value of a Data-Driven Business for BI Executives

We see it everywhere; no industry is immune. Today’s digital technologies are driving great transformation across businesses in new and compelling ways. This transformation is redefining how businesses operate, how they uncover new revenue streams, and how they engage with customers to drive a more loyal and connected experience.
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September 7, 2016

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Pyramid Analytics: your company’s smarter when everyone’s smarter

Pyramid Analytics was founded in 2008 with the vision to create a modern enterprise business analytics platform that revolutionizes the way people access, visualize, and present their data; allowing users to make better decisions based on one single source of business truth. In the latest issue of Silicon Review magazine, read how our company is helping more than one million decision makers transform their business into a data-driven organization, and find out how we can help you too.
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September 7, 2016
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Company News
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Fantasy football 2016 - building a data-driven draft

Like most businesses, fantasy football coaches are drowning in data. They show up to their draft after countless hours of research with the “perfect” list of players ranked by scoring projection, mock draft ranking, and personal preferences. Other coaches show up similarly armed. They draft as close to their script as they can, then spend the season convinced they made the best decision they could, based on the data available. However, many coaches are using the right data in the wrong way.
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Published:
August 31, 2016
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Data Story
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Pyramid Analytics: Microsoft Health and Life Sciences Solution Partner of the Year

We are pleased to announce that Microsoft has named Pyramid Analytics the 2016 U.S. Public Sector Health and Life Sciences Solution Partner of the Year.
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August 29, 2016
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Company News
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Tapping into the power of the many: collaborative decision-making

The goal of business intelligence is the advancement of the organization, not increased personal productivity. Unshared analysis, insights, and assets cannot deliver their true value. And those shared via unsecured means can cause more problems for your organization than they could ever solve.
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Published:
August 15, 2016
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How To
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Instilling confidence in self-service analytics: governance and security

Everyone using data to make decisions is a laudable goal, but how you reach it is critical. “Analytics for all” sounds empowering, but if everyone is fending for themselves, decisions made can be as harmful as they are expedient. In many organizations, there’s tension between two critical needs – business users immediately interacting with their own data and IT keeping systems operating securely.
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Published:
August 8, 2016
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How To
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Power BI Desktop “Publish to Pyramid Server” button

Many organizations today cannot use public cloud solutions because of security concerns, administrative challenges, and functional limitations. However, they still need a centralized platform where end users can conduct self-service analytics in an IT-enabled environment.
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July 18, 2016
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Company News
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Pyramid Analytics named an Industry Excellence Award winner by Dresner Advisory Services

At Pyramid Analytics, we are committed to providing our customers with a complete business analytics platform that meets the needs for everyone in their organization – from the BI initiative lead to the business decision maker to IT. As we work through our software to enable a culture of sharing and collaborating around analytics, we are pleased to announce our efforts have been recognized in the Dresner Advisory Services’ 2016 Industry Excellence Awards, which were announced this week.
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Published:
July 13, 2016
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Company News
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Analytic platforms and the decision lifecycle

Today’s organizations have become decentralized, and more individuals are being asked to make choices that have potentially far-reaching implications. There is also enormous pressure to act quickly. That’s why decision makers are demanding self-service analytic tools that support them throughout the entire decision lifecycle.
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Published:
July 1, 2016
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Industry News