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5 More BI and Analytics Predictions for 2019
Technology continues to rapidly transform every industry. The world of BI and analytics is no different. We’ve shared five predictions every data leader needs to know about in 2019, but there were...
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5 BI and Analytics Predictions for 2019
The analytics and business intelligence market is set to undergo unprecedented change in 2019. Driven by new technologies like AI and machine learning, along...
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Bringing AI to BI: How SpotIQ Takes Analytics to the Next Level
In the world of classic business intelligence, it’s not an understatement to say the query is king. Given the technology and infrastructure constraints...
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Winning the Analytics Lottery Has Been Impossible - Until Now
For years, the business intelligence industry has promised not only to make businesses smarter, but empower them with self service insights from corporate data...
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Unlocking the Value of Big Data and AI Requires Context and Trust
When Target deduced that a teenager from Minnesota was pregnant -- and told her father about it before she’d broken the news herself -- it was a reminder of...
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Value Becomes the 5th “V” in Big Data Factors
Predicting what will happen in the coming year is always a tricky business. The seeds of the future may have been planted in the year prior, but haven’t grown...
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Don’t Toy Around with Supply Chain Analytics
I was recently onsite at a major toy manufacturer – let’s call them Toy Company – discussing their supply chain analytics initiative. They were explaining...
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Four Steps for Deploying a New Analytics Architecture
Using data to understand your client has been the holy grail of analytics teams for decades. Until recently, however, the inability to collect and reconcile...
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Why a Report Is Often a Mistake
In 1961, archaeologist Nicolae Vlassa discovered the Tărtăria tablets, thought by some to be the oldest known written text in the world. The controversies...
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What Do HGTV, Healthcare and BI Have in Common?
Who would have thought that Home and Garden Television (HGTV) could change medicine? But it is. That TV show where people search for beachfront bargains and...
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Everyone Hates Reports—What People Want Is Answers
Early in my career, thanks to some great managers, I was fortunate to have landed in a position with the responsibility of regularly presenting the performance...
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Stop Wasting Money—Why Waiting for BI is Expensive
How much does waiting cost you?
From a personal perspective, it might not be that hard to answer the question. Add together time waiting in line, time...
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BI Leaders—Make it Simple with Data Abstraction
Consider an online retailer who has questions like: When should we roll out specific marketing campaigns? Which products should we push? Which products...
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Three Steps to Spring Clean Your BI Platform
Stumbling through an information portal cluttered with content choices and complex navigation can be a confusing experience. It may seem like the answer you...
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Why Analytics Maturity Matters
The world of Analytics is no different than any other technology-based solution domain in that the receptiveness of the audience to change is one of the most...
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How to Revitalize Your BI with In-memory Analytics
As humans, we have very flexible thought processes. We ask questions that lead to answers. If we don’t like the answer, we ask a different question. ...
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Why Best of Breed Technologies Don't Make the Best BI
Do you like smartphones? Think they’re easy to use? Would you rather carry around a digital camera for photographs, a phone for calls only, a pager for...
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How to Avoid Analytics Failure—A Tale of Two Strategies
Did you know that Gartner estimates that 50% of all Analytics projects fail?
Have you taken part in one or more of these projects?
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Schemas at Scale: How to Avoid Common Data Modeling Traps
As a BI industry professional, one of the things that intrigues me is the fact that even today, with all the BI tools out there, analyses that cut across...
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5 Things I Wish I’d Known about Business Intelligence
Do you ever wish you had a time machine? What would you go back and tell your younger self if you did? Thinking back over my career as a Business Analyst, BI...
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Is There Bias in BI? The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis
Try a little thought experiment with me.
Take out a piece of paper. Call to mind the last two digits of your cell phone number. Write them down. Now...
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Why Facebook Is More Popular Than BI—and What You Can Learn...
Here’s a question for you: how often do you open Facebook just to go to someone’s profile and look up a piece of information about them? If you’re...
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The Secret to Self-Service BI Success
Last week at a Customer Advisory Board meeting, I saw a presenter who stood out as a sales training star. He worked at a world-class software provider on the...
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5 Ways to Deploy Analytics 5x Faster
With the pace of change in the world getting faster every day, companies that rely on gut instinct over data-driven decisions are doomed to get left behind. But...
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6 Ways to Bulletproof Your Data Model
So you’re ready to roll out your dimensional data model and looking for ways to put the finishing touches on it. These 6 best practices will help you take...
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Dimensional Data Modeling in 4 Simple Steps
This guide serves as the first of a series of blog posts designed to help you set up an analytics-ready data pipeline using some fundamental data modeling...
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Building a Killer BI Business Case: Start Small, Think Big
Business Intelligence (BI) is now solidly at the top of the list of most enterprise IT plans. Top-performing companies will spend 33% more of their tech budgets...
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3 Tips for Crushing Your Next Analytics Project
I spend a lot of my time these days traveling to talk to customers about how to get the most value out of their analytics ecosystem. People are hungry for...
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5 Takeaways from This Year's Gartner Summit
We’re back in Palo Alto after another engaging week at Gartner BI & Analytics Summit in Grapevine, TX. Coming shortly after their release of this year’s...
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What the Bleep is a Chasm Trap?
Chasm trap. Sounds like one of those metal claws hunters put in the jungle to capture leopards and panthers - not something you want to fall into around the...
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Top 3 Questions for Leaders in a BI Buying Cycle
Three must-ask questions every business manager should bring up during your next BI buying cycle.
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Busted: The Business Intelligence Industry's Biggest Myth
https://www.thoughtspot.com/technologySelf-service is one of the hottest terms in business intelligence. Unfortunately, it's also one of the most misunderstood...
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