Finding a healthy balance in life is key to successful, happy living. It’s no different when we talk about business intelligence strategies. The beginning of the New Year is a great time to monitor, measure, review, and revise your BI implementation goals. Getting in shape takes time, but it’s easier to be successful if you break Read more…
One of the most common questions we receive during the BI Office Suite implementation process is, “How do we decide who needs which tool?” (Since BI Office offers tiered licensing, the customer can choose who has access to different functionalities/applications within the Suite.) Following that question, there is usually a discussion about which users are Read more…
Building a dashboard to answer questions Organizations – all organizations – are highly dependent on their information channels. Who is buying what? Where? When? Which departments are performing well? Which aren’t? Who’s been making money? Who’s been losing money? What’s the projection for next month? Next quarter? Next year? Obtaining and visualizing the answers to Read more…
Practical Aspects of Governed Data Discovery In my previous blog on Governed Data Discovery, I covered what governance means in the business analytics world. In this blog, I’ll review some of the key practical aspects of a governed data discovery solution. Governed Data Discovery was a big theme in Gartner’s MQ 2014 report. Since then, numerous BI Read more…
In Gartner’s 2014 Magic Quadrant (MQ) report, there was a strong allusion to the latest emerging concept in business analytics: Governed Data Discovery. The exact meaning of this term has yet to be fully realized, so I will attempt to give it some definition both conceptually and practically in this blog.
BI Analysts are faced with daily challenges converting data into knowledge. It is the BI team’s role to integrate, analyze and then report or publish the findings that can, among others, identify opportunities and trends or find reasons for potential loss.
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