Category: Business Intelligence

Feed: Actian. Author: Andre Beauchamp. Due to the global outbreak of COVID-19, schools worldwide had to shut down quickly. While many schools already operated with some online component, most were not equipped to become 100% digital in a matter of days. Further, it’s looking as if most school districts and higher education campus systems will have to adopt some sort of hybrid approach as a means of transitioning back to some level of in-person instruction and laboratories.  With our own online portal for digital learning, we saw a 200% increase in activity after the outbreak put schools on a total learn-from-home ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: Sampa Choudhuri. ETL (extract, transfer, and load) and IPaaS (Integration Platform as a Service) are data integration methods to connect different IT systems and data sources together. While ETL is a set of techniques for moving data, IPaaS is a more holistic set of capabilities for moving and integrating data between IT systems.  IPaaS is often seen as the successor or “next-generation” of ETL tools – optimized to operate in modern cloud IT environments.The digital transformation of business has brought about rapid growth in the number of diverse IT systems a company uses to support its business ... Read More

Feed: Domo Blog. Author: Scott Resch. Six months into the first global pandemic of the modern era, we have learned what may prove to be one of the most important lessons of our generation: In healthcare crises like the one we face today, data is just as powerful a tool as any therapeutic or vaccine. Employees need to know if they are infected as early as possible, which means leaders at all levels of your organization need reliable, data-driven processes and tools at their fingertips to protect the workforce from each possible exposure. As a data company, Domo can help ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Chris Hemedinger. If your work environment is like ours here at SAS, you're seeing more of your data and applications move to the cloud. It's not yet a complete replacement for having local files on your desktop machine, but with cloud storage and apps -- like Microsoft OneDrive -- I can now access my work documents from any browser and any device, including my smartphone. I can update now my spreadsheets while waiting in the dentist office. Oh joy. For those of us who use SAS to read and create Microsoft Excel documents, cloud-based files can ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Melanie Carey. How have healthcare providers and governmental agencies predicted the fast-changing, potentially exponential increase in the need for medical services and equipment through the various stages of the COVID-19 pandemic? Mathematical techniques that attempt to model and understand the likely spread of the disease have been instrumental. The SEIR model is a compartment model that uses a mathematical and statistical approach to model the spread of an infectious disease within a population. It divides the population into four compartments: Susceptible: those who are susceptible to becoming infected. Exposed: those who have been exposed to an ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . We’re excited to announce two new enhancements to Power BI apps that help you share data more effectively with your organization. The new contact list for apps makes it easier for app users to get help when they need it and for app owners to receive notifications about the app.  The new option to allow contributors to update app content helps workspace admins manage access more effectively. These new capabilities are available for apps in the new workspace experience and shine in the New look for the Power BI ... Read More

Feed: Teradata Blog. During this ongoing and unfortunate COVID-19 crisis, all of us are trying to remain safe by staying home, applying social distancing and wearing masks. The current limitations on our daily lives are very necessary for our health. But activities we have taken for granted in the past, such as eating out at a restaurant, going to the movies, shopping in a mall or having a drink with your friends are now restricted. All these activities are what freedom allows us to do and we have realized the value of these freedoms only after they are gone. In ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Eillie Anzilotti. Source: Samuel Sinyangwe, Tableau Public News of the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Manuel Ellis, and too many more has reopened past wounds of policing and violence against the Black community in the United States. It is a reminder, yet again, of the injustices Black Americans face, often at the hands of police agencies tasked with protecting communities. Across Tableau and the Tableau Community, there is a search for data that can help inform understanding of and solutions to racism and race-based violence. Data is not an answer in and of itself, but ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Dynamics 365 Blog. Author: Mo Osborne. Today, we published the 2020 release wave 2 plans for Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform, a compilation of new capabilities that will be released between October 2020 and March 2021. This second release wave of the year offers hundreds of new features and enhancements, demonstrating our continued investment to power digital transformation for our customers and partners.Highlights from Dynamics 365Dynamics 365 Sales includes updates for more simplified experiences; including collaboration tools, a new mobile experience for quick access to customer information, and new enhancements to forecasting to natively create and ... Read More

Feed: SAS Blogs. Author: Carlos Pinheiro. The current state of policy enforcement during an infectious disease pandemic is mostly reactive. Public health officials track changes in active cases, identify hot-spots and enforce containment policies primarily based on geographic proximity. By combining telecommunications data -- which we turn into mobility information -- with public health data of positive cases, we can use network analytics to better understand the spread of COVID-19 and make more proactive decisions on social containment policies. Data required for this application includes aggregated physical subscriber movements over time, provided by telecommunications companies, and confirmed cases by place ... Read More