Tag archive for ‘Analyst tools’
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When the right tool is not a standard tool.
Phil Simon (@philsimon) tweeted a link to an article in the Harvard business review that talks about the dangers of being "overly tool standardized" within an organisation that I thought was very interesting. Now, of course, standards are needed, and for a broad range of tools its counter productive (and horrifically expensive) to let everyone [...]
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Data to the people- why self serve ETL
As regular readers of this blog know, I believe in a balance between formal and informal data analysis tools. I believe in an approach that firmly places people in the center of a new way of looking at the data analysis process. In the past, “big business intelligence” created an infrastructure heavy, highly centralised and [...]
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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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Self Serve Business Intelligence
Self serve business intelligence dreams of letting everyone whip up any report or analysis they want. The reality is that its often not the report that's the problem- it the underlying data and model. So the idea of self serve business intelligence is a wonderful idea- the problem is that its not all about pretty [...]
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Datamartist Public Beta Released
nModal Solutions Inc. is very proud to announce the public beta release of the Datamartist tool. It is currently available for download here. I'd very much like to thank all those who have signed up at datamartist.com over the past months to formally take part in the Beta- and thank you in advance for everyone's [...]
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Business Intelligence Workspaces and in memory self serve analysis
In the classical Business Intelligence architecture, users sit at their computers, requesting reports and analysis, and huge central servers churn through the numbers. The dual-core machine on the desk with 2Gb of RAM is asked to do almost nothing. As machines get faster and faster, new tools that use memory are going to create functionality and speed that just hasn't been [...]
