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Democracy is a great thing! The more involved people are, the more they understand, the better decisions they can make for themselves and for everyone else AND they can make a better contribution as well. Data Democratization works the same way. In years past, businesses thought that only senior management needed to understand the strategy and direction of the company but…
Added by Arbuda Dave on April 7, 2017 at 12:30am — No Comments
There are numerous reasons why a software implementation might fail and the list is too long to cover in this article. But, when it comes to Business Intelligence Software, there are some common reasons for failure.
Like many other businesses, your enterprise may have entered into the business intelligence (BI) domain with the belief that, as soon as…
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Business intelligence solutions have come a long way in the past five years with continued innovation and transformation from traditional BI to data visualization and data discovery. With the advent of improved BI tools and accessibility, many businesses are using precious IT budgets to add self-serve business intelligence to their solution infrastructure and put the power of self-serve BI tools into the hands of their employees and business users.
Vendors like …
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Here's a new tool that can help to bridge the business-IT divide -- Executable English.
It's a platform on the Web that can support people socially writing their own apps, by typing Executable English knowledge into browsers.
For example, here's the "source code" of an app written in executable English:
www.reengineeringllc.com/demo_agents/GrowthAndDebt1.agent
Anyone on the…
Added by Adrian Walker on November 6, 2014 at 1:48pm — No Comments
We all know the constant struggle between IT and business users when it comes to BI software: Business users want to access data in order to make fast decisions independently, without having to use IT as a middle man every time a new requirement arises, query is run, or data is added. Yet, IT is overwhelmed by constantly changing requests and requirements, and struggle to deliver data in an actionable time-frame. The…
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If I told you all of our modern activities–posts to social media sites, transaction records, online activities, digital pictures and videos, and mobile GPS signals to name a few– leave a trail of data behind that is estimated to produce about 2.5 quintillion bytes of data each day, would you have a real feel for how much data that is? Even if I defined that number more clearly as 1 followed by 18 zeros, many tech veterans and savvy business leaders still have trouble digesting the scope of…
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If you have your eyes set on running a company someday, you may wonder what skills you need to cultivate now, as well as the best age to make a run for the position. Well, we took data from the LinkedIn profiles of close to 1 million CEOs in the United States, and gained some great data intelligence using a business analytics software. Here’s your chance to learn what it takes to get that corner office as well as see how crunching big data of the head honchos can offer great…
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While having a many-to-many relationship may sound steamy to some of you, when it comes to the data in your tables it can get complicated. That is, unless you understand the different scenarios, their resolutions, and how to build a good relationship with your data. Just as a general overview, a relationship specifies the logic used to combine data from one or more tables. You create relationships by connecting fields between two…
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I am working in BI domain as manager for 2 years now and still i think i did not have found the right mix of people.
People think that in a BI team which is more related to technical aspect so hiring people proficient in a particular technology is preferred. My views are little different following is my team composition.
Added by Vishal Sharma on July 10, 2014 at 6:56am — No Comments
It is a known fact that Business Intelligence (BI) initiatives require a good amount of investment and time by the business. But organizations need to drive these initiatives not with a "cost" mindset but instead with a "profit" mindset.
The money invested in BI initiatives is meant to generate actionable information for timely decision making. It pays to note here that this actionable information can generate money many times over for the business.
The success of the BI…
ContinueAdded by Kesavan Hariharasubramanian on April 23, 2014 at 3:47am — 2 Comments
Here is an excerpt from a TDWI article - "The Year in BI and Data Warehousing" - that was published in December 2013.
"One of the things that ailed BI in 1993 and 2003 is the same thing that ails BI today: i.e., anemic adoption. This is in spite of the fact that today's BI tools incorporate a staggering array of "self-service" features, along with (often…
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Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) operations are of extreme importance for some industries. They are particularly crucial for airplanes, helicopters, trains and heavy production machinery (such as power plant equipment). In fact, some equipment has a lifespan of 20 to 25 years, and over the course of its usage period, for every euro spent to purchase the equipment, MRO costs will be 3 to 3.5 euros.
In this market, the distribution of MRO activities varies widely between…
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All studies show that, with globalization, large companies are faced with an increasing number of decisions and that these decisions are more complex and involve greater quantities of data. In today’s world, clearly one must have access to strategic and operational intelligence throughout the entire company and be able to take actions that are appropriate for the dynamics of the business…
Added by Michel Bruley on February 11, 2014 at 1:32am — No Comments
What do we predict for the Indian Analytics Industry this year? Here is what we put together at IVY after talking with our analytics recruiters, alumni, clients, and industry associates:…
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For a company, having "a presence" in social media is worthless unless it allows it to achieve some objectives. However, beyond the control of the company, social media talk about the company, under these conditions is it reasonable to ignore this space frequented by customers, prospects, partners and competitors?
Social media influences reputation, image, and…
Added by Michel Bruley on January 7, 2014 at 2:07am — No Comments
Our company recently implemented a BI Reporting solution intended for a retail company with both, an offline retail chain and an online web-shop. This was a Demo project, so during the planning phase our team decided to use two different platforms, including different back-end and front-end software.
In general, we planned to compare the free and non-free software available for similar BI Reporting implementation.
We chose the following platforms for…
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The goal is to design and build a data warehouse / business intelligence (BI) architecture that provides a flexible, multi-faceted analytical ecosystem for each unique organization.
A traditional BI architecture has analytical processing first pass through a data warehouse.
In the new, modern BI architecture, data reaches users…
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