Tag: BI

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Srividya Sridharan. Come gather ’round, people, wherever you roamAnd admit that the waters around you have grownAnd accept it that soon you’ll be drenched to the boneIf your time to you is worth savin’Then you better start swimmin’ or you’ll sink like a stoneFor the times they are a-changin’. — Bob Dylan The times are a-changin’ indeed. The sweltering heat of summer will soon give way to a more forgiving fall, kids will return to school, and the trees will shed their leaves. Changes around us are inevitable, so it’s important to position your business to ... Read More

Feed: Hadoop Dev. Author: Nagapriya Tiruthani. Announcing the immediate availability of Db2 Big SQL on Cloudera’s platform, CDH v6.2.  Extending the recent support on CDH v5, Db2 Big SQL will now add support to Cloudera Distributed Hadoop (CDH) v6.2 platform along with Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) v2.6 & v3.1. Db2 Big SQL is an advanced SQL engine optimized for advanced analytics in a Big Data environment. IBM infuses the power of industry leading Db2 in open source technologies for machine learning, interactive, adhoc and batch analytics use cases.  The core capabilites of a mature SQL engine brings enterprise SQL capabilies to Big Data platform ... Read More

Feed: Big Data Made Simple. Author: Emily Jacobs. Businesses are relying on business intelligence more than ever, but how are the recent innovations from AI impacting this sector? As a technology-driven process business intelligence could garner much autonomy from AI if put to use properly.Of course, business intelligence serves a much higher purpose than handing out numbers to users. Instead, it works to guide high-level management and end-users. Primarily it should guide people through making business decisions. Some have a concern that AI may hinder that decision making by creating such a narrow view of big data analysis. For now, ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: MySQL Performance Blog; While we often run MySQL on larger scale systems in Production for Test and Dev, sometimes we want to run MySQL on the tiniest cloud instances possible or just run it on our laptops. In these cases, MySQL 8 and MySQL 5.7 memory consumption is quite important.In comparing MySQL 8 vs MySQL 5.7, you should know that MySQL 8 uses more memory. Basic tests on a 1GB VM with MySQL 8 and MySQL 5.7 (actually they’re Percona Server versions) running the same light workload, I see the following vmstat output:MySQL 5.7 vmstat output ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Our August release has another hotly anticipated feature from the Microsoft Business Application Summit, grouping. Grouping in reports, similar to PowerPoint’s grouping, lets you easily organize groups of visuals to move and resize them as a set. This month’s release also has some updates to our newest features, such as an icon set picker for our newly added icons conditional formatting and measure support for key influencers. As a reminder, you’re now downloading a single .exe file that has all the languages wrapped into it. The old .msi installation ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . I’m excited to share that in this week release of Power BI Mobile apps, we’ve made it easier for organizations to enable Power BI Mobile users to access their PBIRS reports they need from anywhere. We partnered with Azure Active Directory team to integrate Power BI mobile applications with Azure Active Directory (AAD) Application Proxy to connect their reports from their mobile app, without the need to setup complex on-premise configuration. In today’s digital workplace, people need access to their business reports anytime and from anywhere. That means they ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . It’s time again to recap the major features and announcements we made in the Power BI service and mobile for the month of July. Here’s a rundown of what we’ll be covering: General availability of Power BI aggregations We announced the general availability (GA) of Power BI aggregations – one of the biggest scalability features we have in the Microsoft BI stack. Aggregations empower organizations to enable every user to perform their own analysis atop full fidelity, petabyte scale datasets. At the same time, those organizations now have better ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Five new Power BI Premium Capacity settings are available in the portal , preloaded with default values. Admin can review and override the defaults with their preference to better protect their capacity from running into issues and avoid problems before they arise. With the release of these new settings, Power BI admins now have the ability to set limits on “Max Offline Dataset Size” with the allowable range from 0.1 to 10 GB and/or set limits on queries to prevent noisy reports from impacting others using the capacity and ... Read More

Feed: Logicworks. Author: Lindsay Syhakhom; DevOps has been a major cultural force in IT for the past ten years. But a gap remains between what companies expect to get out of DevOps and the day-to-day realities of working as a systems engineer on a IT team. Systems engineers often spend too much time putting out fires and manually building, configuring, and maintaining cloud infrastructure. A recent survey found that it takes more than a month to deliver new infrastructure for 33 percent of companies, and more than half had no access to self-service infrastructure. The result is that systems engineers burn out ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Bhushan Patil. The term ‘data visualization’ was coined a couple of years ago. But storytelling finds its roots in the earliest of times. Using characters, events, event sequences, locations, time periods, emotions, numbers, etc., storytelling has always fascinated the humankind. Today, data visualization narrates events, causes & consequences graphically. These analytics consultants leverage the interactive dashboards which literally ‘talk’ to the users, to stop data from being mundane and monotonous. Let’s see what more is it capable of- Reversed Roles: From visualized data to data Today, data visualization tools pull in numerical ... Read More