Category: Business Intelligence

Feed: What's New. Author: Francois Ajenstat. Data is no longer just a competitive advantage. It is critical to the health—and often the survival—of an organization. Fostering a Data Culture equips every individual in your organization with the insights they need to tackle your most complex business challenges. In this all-digital, work-from-anywhere world, data needs to be more accessible, more collaborative, proactive, and available anywhere. Using data effectively means being able to seamlessly access insights right where you work.  Earlier this year, we introduced Tableau for Slack to put data in the flow of work—and at the center of every conversation ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Traci Curran. Hybrid cloud adoption is on the rise. As companies look to accelerate their cloud journey, it’s becoming clear that there are numerous values – and constraints –  when blending the use of private on-premise clouds with those of public off-premise clouds. Creating a strategic balance between the two can often yield more favorable results for the business, but it’s important to carefully consider the benefits and risks associated with data that moves between public and private infrastructures.What is a Hybrid Cloud? A hybrid cloud environment or architecture combines using a public cloud and a private ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Ron Cody. The term "fuzzy matching" describes a method of comparing two strings that might have slight differences, such as misspelling or a middle initial in a name included or not included. One of my favorite functions to compare the "closeness" of two strings is the SPEDIS (spelling distance) function. Have you ever misspelled a word in Microsoft Word? If so, the word is underlined in red (so they tell me, because I have never misspelled anything) and if you right-click on the word, you see a list of possible alternatives. The algorithm used is similar ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . Welcome to the September 2021 update, time flies and it’s Fall already! Here, in the Pacific Northwest, the first leaves have turned red and started falling. In this update, we have exciting new things for buttons, line charts, and DAX functions. Also, Insights is new this month and we have added some new capabilities for Goals. There is more to explore, please continue to read on. Reporting Analytics Modeling Data connectivity and preparation Service Mobile Developers Visualizations Paginated Reports Ideas forum updates  Check out the video below for this month’s summary: ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . We are happy to announce that we have just released the September update for the On-premises data gateway (version 3000.96.1)   Here are some of the things that we would like to highlight with this month’s  release:  Azure Active Directory-based Single Sign-On for Amazon Redshift Kerberos-based Single Sign-On for Hive LLAP and Tibco Data Virtualization Compatible with the September PBI desktop Amazon Redshift – Azure Active Directory-based Single Sign-On We are excited to release Azure Active Directory-based Single Sign-On (AAD SSO) for the Amazon Redshift connector, allowing you to use seamless ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Waldemar Razik. Actuarial practice has always been analytical—so how much is advanced analytics disrupting this element of insurance? We discussed this issue in a recent #SASchat. Analytics is now being used in more and more areas in insurance, and particularly to tailor pricing more precisely to customers’ risk profile. This enables pricing to be more competitive, which is crucial when many customers use price comparison sites to select insurance. Robert Ruf, Sr Solutions Architect had a valid observation: “Competitive pricing in real time is essential for many insurance products today. When benefits are highly interchangeable, customers ... Read More

Feed: Teradata Blog. How do you optimize your entire supply chain?  How do you know you are economically balancing the costs of demand and supply fulfilment across the entire organization when each organization has different objectives and measures, and often maintains their own applications and data? This post will help you think about and answer these questions for your business.  The supply chain is like a river, flowing over rocks, around bends and frequently looking for the easiest path downhill.  Removing one rock or changing a branch of the river may provide improved flow at a given point but will ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . We are excited to announce the public preview of Insights! The Insights feature helps users easily find and explore insights such as anomalies, trends, and KPI analysis in their data as they interact and consume their reports. It proactively notifies a user if there are interesting insights in their reports and provides explanations for the insights. It works out of the box on any report so consumers can automatically get insights without any setup or configuration by the creators.  Insights is supported for reports in Premium and Premium Per ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Caslee Sims. A recent report suggests that the current state of climate change is alarming. Climate change puts billions of people at risk of events like extreme hurricane seasons and rising sea levels. However, data and analytics are playing a critical role in informing us about the situation, planning what’s ahead, and raising awareness about how to help our climate. With the volume of data increasing on environmental issues, consider a few of the ways that data and advanced analytics/AI technologies are helping solve growing climate change challenges and concerns. Mitigating floods with analytics on IoT Municipalities everywhere are at ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Rick Wicklin. The SAS/IML language supports lists, which are containers that store other objects, such as matrices and other lists. A primary use of lists is to pack objects of various types into a single symbol that can be passed to and from modules. A useful feature of using lists is that lists can dynamically grow or shrink as necessary. You can use the ListAddItem subroutine to add a new item to an existing list, which can be convenient if you do not know until run time how many items the list needs to hold. ... Read More