In the war of cloud computing, AWS is currently the undisputed leader but Microsoft Azure seems to be chipping away at AWS’ lead with every passing quarter. While Google Cloud offers impressive tools as well, it is struggling to keep pace with Azure. This could be traced to Microsoft’s longer tenure in the enterprise market. […]
Posts Tagged ‘analytics’
Gartner ITxpo: Augmented Analytics
Our MicroStrategy and BI Expert Jim Butz spoke at the Gartner IT Expo today on the power of augmented analytics. In short, he pushed that data and insights only matter if you can easily access them and if you have the ability to act on the insight. To that end, your business intelligence (BI) tools must […]
Gartner ITxpo: Top Transformative Tech for Life Sciences
At Gartner IT Expo, Michael Shanler focused on what technologies can transform life sciences. In doing so, he called upon a lot of existing research at Gartner including: 2018 Hype Cycle for Life Science Research and Development 2018 Hype Cycle for Life Sciences 2018 Hype Cycle for Digital Care Delivery 2018 Hype Cycle for Real […]
Augmented Analytics with MicroStrategy at #GartnerSYM 2018
Business intelligence (BI) helps organizations transform their data into actionable intelligence and make smarter business decisions. But according to one Gartner survey, only about 30 percent of employees are using analytics. So how can enterprises increase adoption? Augmented analytics may be the answer. What is Augmented Analytics? The volume, variety and veracity of big data […]
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 […]
Oracle BI Data Sync: How to Add a New Fact
Following my previous blog post on how to add a new Dimension to a Data Sync task, this post looks at how to add a Fact and perform a lookup on dimensions while loading the target fact table in a data warehouse using Data Sync. To refer to the blog post on adding a Dimension […]
Oracle BI Data Sync: How to Add a New Dimension
In this and the following post, I will cover the steps entailed in adding dimension and fact tasks in Oracle Data Sync. The latest releases of Data Sync included a few important features such as performing look-ups during an ETL job. So I intend to cover these best practices when adding new dimension and fact […]
The Houston Astros and Winning Through Advanced Analytics
How can using analytics can make a difference? Baseball has winners and losers. Teams do not get to share a title or a win. If they are tied at the end of the 9th inning, the teams are forced into extra innings until one of the teams score. In a way, that’s more brutal than […]
Hit Your Stride on the Journey to the Intelligent Enterprise
We are partnering with MicroStrategy for a free, one-day symposium Monday, July 23 at the Ritz Carlton in St. Louis, Missouri. The symposium will highlight the latest insights on big data, mobile app development, dashboard design, and security. This event is a great way to: Familiarize yourself with MicroStrategy’s innovative analytics and mobility solutions Network with our […]
Intro to Analytics in Oracle IoT Cloud Service [Webinar]
Oracle Internet of Things (IoT) Cloud Service helps you make critical business decisions and develop strategies by providing numerous applications that allow its users an inside perspective on their company’s facts and figures. Some of these applications include connecting your devices to the cloud and analyzing data and alert messages from those devices in real […]
MicroStrategy’s AR App for Avon’s Customer Case
Avon, a leading beauty company, presented a customer case to our MicroStrategy partner to find a more efficient way to identify product performance in their stores. MicroStrategy, with support from our experts, took this challenge and produced an augmented reality application using the platform and augmented reality APIs. The result? An application that can display […]
Why BI Is Still The Most Important Trend
There are a lot of trends in data and analytics on the rise with AI, advanced analytics, IoT, and data science. But even with all of those new ways to explore and transform your enterprise data assets, business intelligence (BI) is still at the core of effective data strategy. Gartner estimates a $22.8 billion growth in […]