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BWH Hotels scales enterprise business intelligence adoption while reducing costs with Amazon QuickSight

AWS Big Data

Four years ago, we switched to Amazon QuickSight , a fully managed, cloud-native business intelligence (BI) service, and have not looked back. Having used Cognos since 2008, this was not just a lift-and-shift migration. We determined what dashboards and data we needed to migrate from our previous solution to QuickSight.

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Business Intelligence and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Paul Blogs on BI

At the same time because I am so passionate about Business Intelligence and can see how it is being both used and abused in this situation, I felt compelled to share my viewpoint. Business Intelligence can be and is being put to good use in this crisis by organizations analyzing trusted data sets which are usually their own.

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Combine transactional, streaming, and third-party data on Amazon Redshift for financial services

AWS Big Data

The following are some of the key business use cases that highlight this need: Trade reporting – Since the global financial crisis of 2007–2008, regulators have increased their demands and scrutiny on regulatory reporting. You can run a direct query from QuickSight for BI reporting and dashboards.

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SpeakBO Experience Launches BO into a New Decade in a Whole New Way

Paul Blogs on BI

These are unprecedented times and we have never been more unsure about the future which is why Business Intelligence is more important than ever. In the 2008 Financial crisis, the organizations that used BI effectively fared much better than those that did not. The InfoSol 2020 Dashboard Awards. Creating Webi Dashboards.

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insightsoftware Acquires Event 1 Software

Jet Global

For decades, we’ve been delivering cutting-edge reporting solutions that transform Excel into a real-time, dynamic environment that drives true business intelligence,” said Michael Newland, president and CEO of Event 1 Software. Joining insightsoftware now positions us for the next phase of growth.

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AI vs. BI for Business, What Do You Need?

Jet Global

And while artificial intelligence has the potential to augment each of those areas, they aren’t areas of focus specifically tied to AI; rather, each of these areas is actually addressed by a different class of ‘intelligence’ software—specifically, business intelligence (or BI). So why the confusion?

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Why Analytics Are Essential in Times of Crisis

Sisense

Twelve years ago, in the throes of the 2008 economic recession, British Airways was cutting costs across the organization. One area they refused to cut, however, was their business intelligence program. Now is the time to apply the full force of business intelligence used by analytics teams to help navigate growing uncertainty.