At The Data Warehousing Institute (TDWI) conference held in Las Vegas recently, Cindi Howson, Analyst and Founder of “BIScorecard”, taught a class on Dashboards that provided some valuable insights into the topic. She pointed out that, historically, to the extent that companies used dashboards, they have had to code their own customized versions. Now, however, […]
Neetu Shaw
As Perficient's Business Intelligence (BI) Company-Wide Practice leader, Neetu Shaw provides thought leadership in developing and implementing a common BI foundational framework for Perficient and our many BI/DW clients, including common services, methods, knowledge management and an integrated enablement plan for both sales and delivery. Neetu is a business-focused and solutions-driven information management professional with executive consulting experience. Her career has been dedicated to BI consulting, thought leadership and solution sales leadership with solid experience in all phases of program implementation from initial business visioning to ROI justification through execution.
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Takeaways from Gartner Magic Quadrant for BI
Analytics and BI are the highest technology priorities this year, and a more diverse and greater number of business users are now clamoring for BI tools. The tools are becoming more fully integrated into entire organizations. The business users want ease of use, speed, and flexibility, while IT personnel want functionality and the ability maintain control on […]
The World of Hadoop
When it comes to Big Data, we’ve talked about the significance of Hadoop, but it is still a mystery to many people. In fact, even among IT experts, there have been multiple and conflicting interpretations of what it is. While all of its complexities may not be unraveled, an article by Derrick Harris on GigaOM.com […]
More Perspectives on Big Data…
To continue the discussion from our previous blog, “Perspectives on Big Data”, we can ascribe a few more characteristics to the term. Big Data is often incomplete, can be very hard to access, often has few easily definable relationships with other pieces of data, and its relevance may well be time sensitive. According to the […]
Perspectives on Big Data…
As we discuss Big Data, it is worth noting that there are many definitions of it floating around, and you may hear or see something a little different from each source. But, most of these definitions do have three characteristics in common: the increasing Volumes (amount) and Velocity (speed) of data, and, of course, the ever-evolving Variety […]
Big Data Platforms – Cost /Benefit Analysis
A few weeks ago, I talked about Big Data Innovations and some of the prominent names in this space. Today, I happened to find this rather intriguing Management Brief from the International Technology Group (based out of Santa Cruz, CA) that makes a comparative study of the 3 biggest names in the Big Data Appliance market […]
The Cloud Broker Business Paradigm
Forrester Research recently published a very interesting and extremely relevant report on the “Cloud Broker” business paradigm. This research explores the current and future business models around cloud computing while outlining why the cloud broker paradigm represents not only “the most promising, but also the most ambitious, cloud approach”. The Researchers opine that “the cloud […]
So, will HANA Pay Off for SAP?
I just read an interesting article in Bloomberg that deals with this very question, and it struck me as being very relevant to what some of my existing clients are wanting to know as well. Lately, I have been doing a lot of research on the overall architecture and strategic aspects of implementing SAP HANA, […]
SAS: Innovation Rules
You cannot talk about innovation in Analytics without making a reference to SAS – the pioneer in high-powered Analytics software. Recently, Rich Karlgaard from Forbes interviewed the “King of Analytics”, Jim Goodnight, CEO of SAS, who discussed, amongst other things, the evolution of SAS from a niche BI player into a World Leader in Analytics. […]
SAP BI – NEW Product Names with 4.0
SAP recently announced the renaming of most of several key BI solutions and products primarily in order to bring clarity to their BI stack and ever-growing product suite. “These changes were made to make it easier for everyone to identify the SAP BusinessObjects BI solutions and better understand their capabilities. The changes will also help […]
Emerging Data Innovations
This is unmistakably the world of the “data scientist” and the “analytics guru”! As growth of data outpaces our ability to process and even understand it in its totality, newer technologies and roles are emerging for handling the challenges posed by “big data”. More and more Retail, Financial, Insurance and Social media giants are treating data and […]
BI “Agility”
Robust information delivery architectures? Global DW infrastructures? Flexible BI frameworks? Yes, Yes, Yes!! Business Intelligence the agile way? “Not quite!” While over the years, flexible, scalable BI has become a reality for most companies with decent resources and enough knowledge, embracing a comprehensive BI methodology that allows businesses to react promptly to market change is still […]