Category archive for ‘Spreadmarts’ 
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Adding self serve data transformation to reduce shadow systems
Do you have lots of unoffical spreadsheets in your organization being used for data analysis? Is the data warehouse use low to non-existent, yet somehow lots of data is appearing in power point presentations and excel spreadsheets all over the company? I believe a key to understanding how information moves around your organization is to [...]
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Pragmatic Business Intelligence
I'm a regular reader of datadoodle, and there have been a couple of great posts recently talking about what I think of as "Pragmatic BI". The first one talks to the question of what the perfect BI tool is- answer? One that people actually use. The second uses a story to illustrate that many uses [...]
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Spreadmarts and Data Shadow Systems- The Debate
When business users are not getting what they want out of the enterprise business intelligence system they very rarely just give up. Successful business people didn't get where they are by giving up when someone doesn't deliver something, they take things into their own hands and get it done. Knowing this, it's not surprising that [...]
