We all know the old saying: a picture is worth a thousand words. But why does that matter when you’re talking numbers? There’s always a story behind your raw data, dashboards and analytics. And the more quickly you understand it, the more you can make the most out of every click and every campaign. If […]
Posts Tagged ‘dashboards’
Automating Financial Reporting with Oracle Analytics Cloud
A new ERP system presented a financial reporting challenge for one of the top specialty contractors in the U.S. – the means to assemble financial data from multiple systems (Penta ERP, ADP, and other custom-built applications) and easily distribute that information to various business unit leaders. The current solution required manual intervention and was very […]
Where Are My Salesforce Report Formats In Lightning Experience?
If you have recently moved to Salesforce Lightning and are now trying to build a report, you might be wondering where are the report formats? There’s now no longer a drop down where you can choose Summary vs. Matrix, or Joined. So what happened to them? Rest assured, they’re still there. The New Salesforce Lightning […]
Augmented Reality for Instant Access to KPIs
The capabilities of augmented reality (AR) are reaching beyond the entertainment sphere and into the hands of store managers. The combination of leading image recognition software and MicroStrategy’s business intelligence (BI) platform is allowing organizations to put BI into the hands of employees and improve store performance with AR analytics. Delivering analytics via proprietary web, mobile […]
Perficient Expands Analytics Expertise with Southport Acquisition
We’re excited to announce the acquisition of Southport Services Group, an award-winning MicroStrategy consulting firm specializing in the development, implementation, integration and support of analytics, business intelligence and data warehousing solutions. Southport deepens Perficient’s analytics expertise and enables us to provide more powerful data-driven digital transformation solutions for our customers. Additionally, this acquisition increases Perficient’s […]
Cross-Industry Success with Tableau
Organizations are turning to self-service data visualization and analytics tools like Tableau to explore enterprise data without limiting users to pre-defined questions or IT requests. We’ve helped many companies across a variety of industries implement these data discovery solutions with great results. The following high-level overviews are a sample of these implementations, highlighting the power […]
Dashboards In Argus Safety
We recently discussed reporting and the tracking of E2B transmissions in Oracle Argus Safety. Today, we’ll highlight some of the dashboards that are available in the drug safety and pharmacovigilance system. As you can see from the menu in the first screenshot below, these are the dashboards built into the system.
New Power BI Features Released for Preview
The Microsoft Power BI blog announced last Thursday that new features were now in Preview, and I can tell you that this is news worth seeing. Among the highlights this preview includes are: Power BI Dashboards – This configuration of the base visual approach in Power View into a coherent Dashboard interface is a smart […]
Cognos TM1 – View and Subset Maintenance Considerations
TM1 TurboIntegrator is the programming or scripting tool that allows you to automate data importation, metadata management, and many other tasks. Scripts built with TurboIntegrator or “TI”, can be saved, edited and, through the use of chores, be set up to run at regular intervals. TI scripts can be used to process existing TM1 data […]
Use The Cloud To Run Your Services Business
A services business is highly dynamic. New projects can land all at once, existing projects get put on hold, and projects often require additional resources to hit a deadline. Without strong visibility to the pipeline of new projects, work in progress and open resource capacity, many services organizations find themselves operating between resourcing fire drill […]
2012 Microsoft ‘Denali’ SSBI – Breaking Barriers
Expanding on “Microsoft BI –No More Excuses”, I recently updated Denali SQL 2012 (Community Technology Preview CTP3) on my demo machine to work with Microsoft’s latest Self-Service BI (SSBI) tools. The result is a MS 2012 Denali SSBI demo and presentation available now from Perficient’s National MS BI team. Below are highlights for 2012 MS […]
Customer-Centric Business Intelligence: Predicting the Future
Faster analysis and decision making can create a powerful strategic advantage. Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) can be used as a powerful diagnostic tool through the use of automated scorecards and dashboards. A company can identify potential flaws and short-comings in the cause-and-effect relationships that drive company performance. Reaction times can be cut from hours and […]