Will Thrash

The Essence of a Metric Store: A metric store is a centralized repository designed explicitly for managing metrics definitions and data. Sitting snugly between your upstream data warehouses and downstream business applications, this innovative layer fundamentally transforms how metrics are handled. It’s a pivotal component in a headless BI architecture, enabling metrics to be defined […]

Getting started in the “Headless BI” (Business Intelligence) world can be an exciting and transformative journey for any organization. If you’re new to this concept, don’t worry! This post will guide you through the basics and offer practical steps to kickstart your Headless BI journey. Understanding Headless BI Firstly, let’s demystify the term. Headless BI […]

Imagine you’re running a business and using analytics to make decisions. You have reports, dashboards, data visualizations – all sorts of content that helps you understand what’s happening in your business. This content goes through a life cycle: it’s created, used, updated, and eventually retired. Managing this cycle effectively is crucial to ensure the information […]

What is a Box and Whiskers Plot? Understanding a Powerful Tool for Data Visualization. 1. Introduction Welcome to our exploration of the Box and Whiskers Plot, a fundamental tool in the world of data visualization. This type of plot, also known as a box plot, gives us a unique way to understand a dataset’s distribution […]

IBM Planning Analytics Workspace Release 2.0.58 news What’s new IBM has released Planning Analytics AI forecasting. This has been a long-awaited feature, as Cognos Analytics has including several aspects of Artificial Intelligence for some time. The new feature can take a time-related set of data and choose from a number of forecasting methods to find […]

Planning and Analytics on the Cloud All organizations must perform financial planning and analysis (FP&A), and many want to shift from a complex web of spreadsheets to a cloud-based integrated solution.  This article will introduce financial planning and analysis and survey four cloud-based solutions. An FP&A solution consolidates and integrates all data, rules, and calculations […]

What is IBM Planning Analytics with Cloud Pak for Data? IBM offers Planning Analytics for on-premise and on the IBM Cloud; why have they added IBM Planning Analytics on Cloud Pak for Data?  We will cover this question with the following explanations: Why IBM Planning Analytics? What is IBM Cloud Pak for Data? How does […]