Data + Intelligence

Ask three digital marketers what their biggest challenges are, and you’ll likely get three different answers. But is there an underlying theme? Common goal? In most cases, yes. We all seem to be striving to make informed, data-driven decisions, and in turn, improve the customer experience. Overcoming the major challenges marketers face today – elevated […]

We have been familiar with machine learning for several years. It has been used in many aspects of business and life such as natural language recognition, fraud detection and autopiloting. While deep learning is a branch of machine learning, it is a big part of the machine learning family based on data representation other than […]

For those that might have missed our Maximo Scheduler webinar, here’s another one that will probably be slightly different version of the Maximo Scheduler Webinar from a few months ago. We have the same great presenters and another informative session regarding how Maximo Scheduler can possibly help you and your planning team. It’s Wednesday, September […]

A Virtual Private Network, or VPN, allows you to securely connect your computer to another computer network through the internet.  A VPN Server is the computer or network device that runs the VPN, and normally your computer will connect to a VPN Server to “get on the VPN”.  In this post I will show you […]

The ideal candidate for a business intelligence (BI) program is a firm that is seeking greater operational efficiency, increased flexibility and interoperability, better management reporting, mitigation of regulatory or other risks, enhanced transparency, access and support, and the ability to make informed business decisions. It is a firm that believes the investment in operational efficiency, […]

In this blog, I will be describing how to configure the PowerBI Desktop connection to Hive instantly on Hadoop and visualize Hive data using Microsoft Power BI. The Hive ODBC Driver, along with direct SQL and HiveSQL, is used to access the Apache Hadoop/Hive distributions. This enables the Business Intelligence (BI), analytics and reporting functions […]

If you’re among the many Oracle E-Business Suite customers still using Discoverer for your reporting and analytics needs, change is inevitable. But it doesn’t have to be disruptive to your business. For Group Voyagers, a group of leading escorted tour, river cruise and independent travel package companies, moving off Discoverer took just nine weeks! Gary […]

Recently, my wife and I picked up a few key pieces of technology for our house and started playing around with them. You might be familiar with them or even have some yourself; light bulbs and outlets that can be controlled with your voice, just to name a couple. Not only that, but they can […]

The business intelligence (BI) industry has been plagued with poor user adoption for years and has a huge failure rate among companies. Here are some of the reasons why. Product is challenging to use: When a BI tool is not designed for business users, such as financial advisors and client associates who are primarily non-technical […]

This week IBM is hosting another webinar to discuss the capabilities of Maximo Anywhere. Mobility and connected devices are nearly everywhere today. Most, if not all of us probably carry at least one personal device. This session will discuss Maximo Anywhere, the connected / disconnected mobile solution by IBM. Are you an on-premise Maximo user […]

Wow, what a great event we had last week at Maximo World in Orlando. Thanks to everyone that participated, coordinated, scheduled and worked behind the scenes to make that event such a success! Why would I blog about something that previously happened, for starters, let’s chat about a few of the highlights and see if […]

Wealth management firms that have embraced a comprehensive business intelligence (BI) program can: mitigate operational and regulatory challenges across the firm; gain visibility into investment analytics, client relationship management, performance reporting, compliance, and contact management; and generate more comprehensive management and client reports. On the other hand, wealth management firms with a more limited set […]