Category: Business Intelligence

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Emanuela Sferco. Amazon’s foundation in 1994 was the start of big changes in the retail world. It may have taken 20 years for the full effects to trickle down into every sector of retail, but it is now obvious that shopping habits have been turned upside down by the rise of online retail. The real question is perhaps whether well-established retailers have a chance to reinvent themselves, and capitalise on their brand recognition. I caught up with David Cosgrave , who leads SAS’s Customer Intelligence team in South EMEA, to discuss the link between customer experience ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog. Author: Umran Hasan. September 14, 2017 10:00-11:00 AM Pacific Time (UTC-7) The advances in productivity that modern enterprise software has brought to business users have always been tempered by the limits of standard software to meet industry-specific, geographically-specific, or individual company-specific requirements. This requirement, typified by the concept of “last mile” functionality, has only increased in recent years. Historically, the solution taken by most organizations in their quest for the “last mile” was a high degree of customization. While customization can fill in the gaps, custom apps are typically expensive to develop and expensive to ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Anna Noble. 22 August, 2017 | Anna Noble From good to great: How to improve your Tableau viz For my latest Tableau Public viz I created this interactive dashboard of Frank Turner’s tour dates.  Click the image to view interactive version. The ‘great’ viz But this is something like version 10.4 of my viz.  The first version I published looked like this: The ‘good’ viz it started from How did I get from good to great? Feedback is the key! Getting someone else to test out your viz can make a really big difference to your ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Mike Gilliland. Chris Gray of Gray Research is a longtime contributor to the practice of Sales and Operations Planning. He is author of several books on S&OP, software selection, and other supply chain related areas, including Sales and Operations Planning Standard System (2007). In 2006 he co-authored Sales & Operations Planning – Best Practices with John Dougherty. I first met Chris last October, when he spoke on “Worst Practices in Sales & Operations Planning” at the 2016 Foresight Practitioner Conference. In the Summer 2017 issue of Foresight, Chris and John continue that theme with “Misconceptions, Missteps, ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Andrea Santy. World Wildlife Fund (WWF) invests in education and training to create the next generation of conservation leaders from around the world. These leaders go on to have a powerful influence on the fate of the world’s most biodiverse and vulnerable places. While scores of leaders benefit from WWF’s support, many other individuals living in biologically rich places lack access to degree programs, courses and other learning opportunities that are crucial to developing knowledgeable stewards of the natural world. Current data leads us to believe that too few learning opportunities are located in parts of ... Read More

Feed: Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Blog. Author: Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Blog Team. Innovation in data processing and machine learning technology Tuesday, August 22, 2017 By Alex Amato, Cloud Dataflow Software Engineer Recently, Google Cloud Dataflow added support for Stackdriver Error Reporting. Users can now view a report of errors that occurred within Cloud Dataflow jobs, including: A list of errors, with a summary error message. A count that indicates how many times each error occurred. A histogram that indicates when each error occurred. Stackdriver Error Reporting is a feature of Google Stackdriver, the ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Sundeep Tengur. The revised EU Payment Services Directive (PSD2) has been a focal point for the financial services industry over the last couple of years and its adoption is set to revolutionise the payment ecosystem in Europe. New entrants, innovative technologies and increased regulation are already posing major challenges to traditional banks as they need to do more than ever before to retain their revenue streams, meet growing customer expectations and counter the erosion of their competitive edge. So why is PSD2 such a game-changer? In short, PSD2 calls for banks to open their data infrastructure ... Read More

Feed: Latest imported feed items on Analytics Matters. Have you noticed lately that supply chains are morphing into all kinds of new chains? We now call the temperature-controlled supply chain the “cold chain.” The process of adding value to activities within the supply chain is part of the “value chain.”  Now along comes the new kid on the block — blockchain! What exactly is blockchain? It is basically a database that runs across a global network of independent computers. It serves as an open ledger, where every transaction is recorded and available for all companies and participants to see and ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Sean Hughes. If you’re headed to Gartner Catalyst 2017 in San Diego, CA August 21 – 24, or if this is your first time at a Gartner event, here’s your essential guide to get the most out of the upcoming conference. We hope you find it useful.This is a conference for technical professionals. You’ll have plenty of opportunities to meet with your peers across all disciplines including CIOs, CTOs, solution architects, developers, database admins, data scientists, data engineers, business analysts and devops, amongst others. Gartner has lined up a host of hot topics and session tracks, so ... Read More

Feed: The Information Lab. Author: Andre De Vries. 21 August, 2017 | Andre de Vries Making your Alteryx Workflows Enterprise Ready: A checklist So you’ve just completed an Alteryx workflow that is going to be used across your business. You also need to schedule it and you’ll need to catch any (potential) issues. You’re probably interested in making sure your workflow is ‘Enterprise-ready’, this means that your workflow is robust and doesn’t fall over when you roll in new data or when someone wants to make a quick change. In this blog I’ll provide a checklist of 5 points you ... Read More