Data + Intelligence

This weekend I was performing work on one of my vehicles, which involved removing many layers of interior parts to clean and then returning the parts to their original locations and specifications. As my wife helped, and we worked on the project I said to her, “You know honey, if you ever needed a gift […]

There are many considerations when it comes to the development and operation of a business intelligence (BI) program, especially when it is specific to certain sectors of the financial industry like wealth management. Nonetheless, there are several fundamental beliefs wealth management firms should embrace as they pursue their BI efforts: BI is a powerful tool […]

One of the many exciting things about our Maximo practice is being part of so much more (Watson, IoT, Analyitcs, etc).  As we live in an age of constant change and new technologies, I can’t help but think how something like this use case for IBM Watson could come into play with customers; maintenance staff […]

Are you looking for another option to use with IBM Maximo and missed the presentation at Maximo World this year? Click here for the presentation, which might have some overlap to an upcoming webinar, Field Service Management using Maximo. Field Service Management (FSM) gives organizations the ability to optimally plan and dispatch field resources and their […]

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 […]