Tag: business intelligence

Feed: erwin Expert Blog – erwin, Inc.. Author: Zak Cole. Much like the hospitality industry, digital transformation in retail has been a huge driver of change.One important fact is getting lost among all of the talk of “the retail apocalypse” and myriad stories about increasingly empty shopping malls: there’s a lot of money to be made in retail. In fact, the retail market was expected to grow by more than 3 percent in 2018, unemployment is low, and wages are at least stable. In short, there’s money to be spent. Now, where are shoppers spending it? Coming into 2019, consumers ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Data is most valuable when it leads to informed action. Making it easier for people to get actionable insights is what Power BI is all about. Now, with Power BI Template Apps, users can immediately begin exploring, learning, and taking action on key data with off-the-shelf apps. Template Apps are integrated packages of pre-built Power BI dashboards and reports, configured to connect to specific data sources. With them, Microsoft partners can quickly access analytics for the apps and services they provide. Partners can also manage the Template Apps development ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Robert Dolan. Achieving and demonstrating success for these priorities requires moving from data collection to data insight by: Establishing baseline performance standards Determining what drives outcomes Evaluating impacts of course correction efforts (re: programs, services, policy shifts) and actions correlating with the principles of modern business analytics, below. Often this is described as a journey from descriptive and diagnostic analytics to predictive and prescriptive analytics. Gartner’s IT Glossary defines these types of analytics as follows: Descriptive Analytics is the examination of data or content, usually manually performed, to answer the question “What happened?” (or, “What is ... Read More

Feed: Featured Blog Posts - Data Science Central. Author: Benjamin Waxer. In this 5 Minute Analysis we'll preprocess, map, and explore complicated sales data for liquor stores in Iowa. Then we’ll extract the relevant latitude and longitude from a problematic column of the data and discover the city with the most sales. Next we’ll filter the data to that city and prepare the data for easy loading into Business Analysis tools such as Tableau and PowerBI. Finally we’ll use our extracted location data to visualize sales within the selected city.Dataset: Iowa Liquor Sales This blog post explores and analyzes the ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: Severalnines; The introduction of DevOps in organizations has changed the development process and also introduced some new challenges. In addition, developers and DevOps teams, along with their own chosen programming languages, also have their favorite database systems. The product life cycle is getting shorter each year so developers want to be able to develop fast, using technologies they know best. Having multiple RDBMS database backends means your organization will become more agile on the development side, but it also imposes additional knowledge on the operation teams. Extending your infrastructure from one to many databases implies you ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . We’re very grateful to our customers, our community members, and our partners for making Power BI what it is today. Thank you. The Power BI Team Get the 2019 Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms report* to learn more.   *This graphic was published by Gartner, Inc. as part of a larger research document and should be evaluated in the context of the entire document. The Gartner document is available upon request from Microsoft. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Ronald van Loon. 5G technology is knocking on our doors and is said to be around the corner. Mobile service providers have upped their game recently and are holding talks, events and discussions to formulate a plan for the launch of this futuristic network. Not only is 5G technology on the agenda at conferences, but many telecom providers have started testing it out inside labs. With the advent of 5G approaching, serious questions are being asked of the potential this network has to deliver on what it has been promising. 5G and its Capabilities 5G ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Learning Machines. One of the topics that is totally hyped at the moment is obviously Artificial Intelligence or AI for short. There are many self-proclaimed experts running around trying to sell you the stuff they have been doing all along under this new label. When you ask them what AI means you will normally get some convoluted explanations (which is a good sign that they don’t get it themselves) and some “success stories”. The truth is that many of those talking heads don’t really know what they are talking about, yet happen to have a friend who ... Read More

Feed: IBM Big Data & Analytics Hub - All Content; Author: rob-thomas; The European Union recently implemented its General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR) The regulation is an essential step to strengthen individuals' fundamental rights in the digital age and facilitate business by clarifying rules for organisations in terms of processing of personal data.  This new regulation has created a challenge for many organizations in terms of how to maintain compliance  with the new data protection and privacy laws while continuing to use data for analytics.As organizations explore how to use innovative solutions to protect individuals’ most sensitive data, there were ... Read More

Feed: All - O'Reilly Media. Author: Ben Lorica. Cubes (source: Pixabay) Check out the full schedule for the Strata Data Conference in San Francisco, March 25-28, 2019. Early price ends February 15. Profiles of IT executives suggest that many are planning to spend significantly in cloud computing and AI over the next year. This concurs with survey results we plan to release over the next few months. In a forthcoming survey, “Evolving Data Infrastructure,” we found strong interest in machine learning (ML) among respondents across geographic regions. Not only are companies interested in tools, technologies, and people who can advance ... Read More