Getting Started with BI on ERP: an MS Dynamics Example
For any business intelligence solution to be effective, it needs to have demonstrable value for business users and to actually…
Analytics Teams: Own The Business Problem, Not An Infrastructure
Analytics teams have devoted the last few decades building large and elaborate infrastructures that attempt to gather and harmonize essential…
5 Dark Data Sources that Lead to Better Marketing Analytics
Marketers have greater opportunities to reach target audiences today than ever before. There are endless ways to engage with prospects…
Tips for Exploring Financial Data with Business Intelligence
One of the main advantages modern business intelligence brings to the table is the ability to perform exploratory data analysis…
Four Key Steps For Enterprise IoT Security
There’s been a lot of press recently about the problems of IoT security: easily hackable smart locks, as many as 100M…
A Recipe for Cooking with the Hadoop Ecosystem
It’s part of my job to cover the ecosystem of Hadoop, the open source big data technology, but sometimes it…
How to become a Data Driven Business
Data is everywhere. All businesses have access to it. Yet, turning data into actionable insights and becoming a data-driven business can…
What Makes a BI Team World Class?
Some years ago, I was asked to do a presentation for a Nordic Telecom company. The company had grown rapidly through acquisitions around…
7 Data Modeling Mistakes that Will Sink your Analysis
You have a goal. You want to gain actionable insights from all of this data that you have been collecting.…