Tag: business intelligence

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Dan Domkowski. By Dan Domkowski, Data Practice Lead – Nuvalence Nuvalence Data mesh is emerging as a paradigm for generating data-driven value and is gaining real-world adoption within industries like financial services and automotive. One of the principles behind data mesh is the notion of a self-serve data platform that abstracts high-level functions into a set of capabilities and experiences for discovering data and building data-driven products. Consumers of these data products can be analytical applications, but analytical consumption is ultimately driven by personas like business intelligence (BI) analysts or data scientists. An ... Read More

Feed: Matillion. Author: Richard Thelwell; What makes for a truly successful business intelligence implementation? One that delivers meaningful value to the business, and which unlocks genuine operational improvement opportunities?Clearly, the choice of business intelligence solution plays a part—although a smaller one than many businesses realise. Instead, the answer turns out to be a mix of factors: system selection, project management, platform choice, an operational focus, and ease of end-user access.Taken together, these form a set of business intelligence best practices that collectively unlock a superior ROI.The best practices in question? Let’s take a look.Business intelligence best practice #1: Lower the ... Read More

Feed: Matillion. Author: Richard Thelwell; Are you feeling underwhelmed by your current BI and reporting capabilities? Are you fully aware of the Business intelligence benefits that can easily be gained from a move to Cloud BI?With such a wide array of different solutions on offer, choosing the right one for your company can be a daunting task. However, it is important that you remain resolute and gain a comprehensive insight into the pros and cons of the various tools that are on offer.In this article we take a look at five of the amazing Business Intelligence benefits that can be ... Read More

Feed: Matillion. Author: Richard Thelwell; According to Gartner, the Business Intelligence industry is now worth an estimated $14 billion and yet there still remains a 70% likelihood that a BI project will fail to meet expectations. It is therefore essential to be aware of the Business Intelligence mistakes that you should avoid making at all costs.Business Intelligence Solutions can be extremely powerful tools that, when used correctly, can help your business to thrive. However, without a robust Business Intelligence Strategy in place, companies are often prone to making blunders that can undermine the success of the whole project.In this post ... Read More

Feed: Matillion. Author: Richard Thelwell; The hype is all-pervading: by exploiting Big Data, smaller companies can successfully take on and beat their larger rivals. Well, possibly. But ironically, an aspect of analytics that is much less hyped turns out to offer a much surer return.Which is this: by exploiting on-demand business intelligence, companies of all sizes can take on and beat their rivals.Faster to market with compelling new products. Faster to respond to changes in sales and demand. Faster to realise and react to shifts in customer sentiment. And faster to recognize when things have gone wrong, enabling actions to ... Read More

Feed: Matillion. Author: Richard Thelwell; With the London and Boston Marathons having taken place in recent weeks, we began to think about the technologies involved in sport and how they compare to technologies used in Business Intelligence.Athletics, football and baseball all use similar technologies and theories to some of those employed in Business Intelligence. Athletics uses tracking tags in events such as the London Marathon, while football uses “MiCoach”, which creates Dashboards similar to those used in BI. For its part, baseball uses a concept called “Moneyball” which can be closely compared with RFM analysis.The London MarathonIPICO sports tags are ... Read More

Feed: Matillion. Author: Ed Thompson, CTO; Structuring your Business Intelligence Dashboard, is one of the most important factors involved in the design of any BI Dashboard and can completely dictate the way in which users view and interpret the information that is being presented to them. It is therefore essential that you tailor the structure to be in line with the message you are trying to convey.So when you have gathered up all of the information that you wish to present, and you have made it stand out with the use of colour and Data Visualisations, it is time to ... Read More

Feed: Matillion. Author: Ed Thompson, CTO; There are four must-follow Business Intelligence best practices to take into account when buying and then implementing a Self-Service Cloud BI Solution. These best practices cover activities before you buy as well as activities after you have bought.1.Identify your business needsFirst of all, before you start a BI project you must identify and consider your business needs. IT Business Edge advises you to “Start your next project by identifying how timely information delivered in the right context, can accelerate a process, reduce costs, or improve productivity in a particular area. Do not start the ... Read More

Feed: Matillion. Author: Ed Thompson, CTO; The chances are, you’ve got a business intelligence strategy. Heck, this is 2014: what business doesn’t have a business intelligence strategy? Even if that business intelligence strategy involves little more than a decision to stay with your existing provider, or finally making the move to a data warehouse.But it’s precisely that provider-centric and technology-centric focus that is what is wrong with most business intelligence strategies.Because a business intelligence strategy really ought to be about how best to use business intelligence, and not about the nuts and bolts of the associated technology, or who to ... Read More

Feed: Matillion. Author: Ed Thompson, CTO; The future of Business Intelligence is right here, right now.  Is your current BI Solution stuck in the past? Then look no further. Check out the product set to revolutionise the future of Business Intelligence.After Facebook’s $2bn acquisition of Oculus VR last week, it seems likely that virtual reality technology is finally ready for lift-off. This ground-breaking technology is set to cause shockwaves across the gaming industry with 3D headsets that provide the user with a fully immersive gaming experience.However, it is not in the gaming industry where this technology is set to be ... Read More