Posts Tagged ‘Business Intelligence’

Many companies have invested millions in building a successful BI / EDW and are investing in advanced analytics for the future. But the mystery remains about the data quality. Though glaring DQ issues might be contained through constant backend data corrections or through exception handling, many organizations still faces the challenge of poor data quality. The reason Data […]

As a healthcare organization, being able to easily locate and capture information is critical when it comes to providing quality patient care and maintaining the financial health of the business. For accountable care organizations (ACOs), managing population health successfully requires the gathering of insights that comes only from a combination of data – data from […]

Whenever OBIEE encounters a run-time error, instead of getting a report you typically see an error message like this on screen:   Expand “Error Details” and you are provided with several lines of query information. For an administrator, the more information the better so one can figure out what went wrong without having to search […]

With an increase in the adoption of cloud applications by large corporations, most organizations today are in some form of hybrid state i.e. they are using a combination of both on-premise as well as cloud applications to run their business. Regardless of where the applications maintain their data, organizations need the ability to see a […]

As new companies embark on the Digital Transformation leveraging Big Data, key concerns and challenges get amplified especially for the near term before the technology and talent pool supply adjusts to the demand. Looking at the  earlier post Big Data Challenges, the top 3 concerns were: Identifying the Business value/Monetizing the Big Data Setting up the […]

As companies start adapting to handle Big Data, the challenges still remains. Barring the obvious applications, the challenges of getting the value out of the new-found data continues to be on the top of the list. ROI’s and potential revenues are yet to be realized. As the technology and the usage becomes more sophisticated we will […]

IT spending is primarily focused on technologies to run the business primarily operations. With new ways of doing business, technology platforms decide the winners and losers. Typical brick and mortar versus online stores. If you look at the CIO’s budget, more than 70% goes to operational systems, infrastructure and keeping-the-lights-on-type-of applications, and the rest is […]

A post on the Microsoft Office blog today entitled “Evolution of SharePoint”  grabbed my attention.  In it, Office Product Management team General Manager Julia White discussed ways the SharePoint platform is changing to fit its niche in the cloud and on premises. As I read the article, I started thinking about how SharePoint BI has […]

In a Connected Consumer World, Analytics Starts with Consumer Data The data is in and it’s revealing that the data is really in! Tons of it.  Not long ago, simply getting the data on our customers, sales, sentiment, stores – anything else we felt would be relevant – was a challenge. But now we have […]

As crazy as it may sound, Microsoft has decided to give away Power BI  for free. Why?  That’s easy: they want Tableau’s market. Well, maybe that’s not the entire answer.  After all, Microsoft played nicely with Tableau for years, largely viewing them as a partner.  But frankly, they were leaving a fairly large market opportunity […]

What is broke?  If I drive a pickup truck around that has a small, unobtrusive crack in the windshield and a few dings in the paint, it will still pull a boat and haul a bunch of lumber from Home Depot. Is the pickup broke if it still meets my needs? So, when is data […]

by jDevaun.Photography Everyone is guilty of falling into a rut and building reports the same way over and over again. This year, don’t just churn out the same old reports, resolve to deliver better business intelligence. Think about what business intelligence means. Resolve, at least in your world, to make business intelligence about helping organizations […]