Tag archive for ‘Business Intelligence’
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Data integration is like a pizza
I enjoy a slice of pizza as much as the next person (perhaps a bit more). The key to a good pizza is the raw materials- use the right stuff, and you'll be happy every time. What's great about pizza is that it has all sorts of great stuff on it, and presents them all [...]
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Reduce Business Intelligence cost through better data migration
Managing Business Intelligence cost is not an easy task. But poorly or inconsistently structured data can make the task even harder. Unfortunately, a lazy data migration project can generate all sorts of headaches that will cause your Business Intelligence cost to explode. Of course, bad data quality also has many other costs and risks associated [...]
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Tableau Public- great visualization now where do we get the data?
Good news on the visualization front this week when Tableau announced that it was making its well received visualization software available in a free public version, as well as providing a structure to allow users to integrate Tableau visualizations into their websites. Tableau has received a fair amount of positive response from the visualization world. [...]
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Estimating the cost of Business Intelligence
How much does a single Business Intelligence report cost a company? Well, obviously there is no single answer- but Boris Evelson of Forrester took a shot at it recently in a blog post. Even when it's not an easy question, it is worth pursuing, and Boris lays out a useful discussion. $150 000 is the [...]
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6 Tips for making a business intelligence project budget
Sometimes it seems like going over budget on a data warehouse project is an unwritten rule. But very often, there are some simple ways to help avoid making a budget that is doomed to be overrun. By budgeting correctly at the start, and managing cost, the project manager can deliver the benefits that the business [...]
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Twitter and Microsoft Business Intelligence- talk about tweet share
I'm only just starting to use twitter for Datamartist, but discovered twitter search, and did a search for Business Intelligence. Well, people are twittering a lot about Microsoft Business Intelligence if twitter sheep, a really cool cloud visualization for twitter is to be believed. This is what I got when I searched for "business intelligence". [...]
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Build vs Buy the Allure of Out of the box business intelligence
The big software vendors claim they can sell you an "out of the box" data warehouse including reporting that installs onto your Oracle, Microsoft or SAP ERP package. Are these things really that easy? Is it actually cheaper to build it yourself? How do you determine if a given product is a good fit for [...]
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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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Business Intelligence Strategy in the Recession
It’s difficult not to notice that the global economy has thrown a recession and we've all been invited. So until we have some money to spend, we'll stop looking at our data, right? Although its true that in today’s economy, a lot of the multi-million dollar business intelligence projects are going to be cancelled [...]
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Importing Data into Excel
I've seen lots of Business Intelligence (BI) solutions, (data marts, data warehouses and the accompanying reports and dashboards) using all sorts of different tools. But I'll tell you- NO tool has yet been as successful as Microsoft Excel for providing a do it yourself data analysis platform to import data into. Now, I'm not suggesting [...]
