Paul Blogs on BI

JANUARY 5, 2023

When I first started raving about BusinessObjects in 1992, I would never have thought that I would still be raving about it 30 years later, let alone writing a blog on it on New Year’s Eve! . 2022 turned out to be another massive year for the most popular Business Intelligence suite on the planet. But why not?

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Cloudera

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Agility, innovation, and time-to-value are the key differentiators cloud service providers (CSP) claim to help organizations speed up digital transformation projects and business objectives. However, the reality is that the “move to cloud” is a turbulent flight for many of them. But FinOps is not only about cost management and control.

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datapine

DECEMBER 11, 2019

It’s also popular amongst businesses for its simplicity and user accessibility, security, and the widespread connectivity that serves to streamline business models, resulting in maximum efficiency across the board. Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies are becoming more widespread; it’s becoming a game-changer worth $15.7

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datapine

JUNE 13, 2019

Visualize and communicate your findings : the most important part, once you have analyzed and dug out insights from your data, is to convey this information to your audience. Using a professional business intelligence dashboard that works with real-time data will always let you up to date when sharing your insights.

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Paul Blogs on BI

JULY 8, 2019

I experienced so many eye-opening presentations, inspiring sessions and great conversations that I was not sure where to start with this blog to condense it all down to the main takeaways. The third demonstration was showing a new Visualization and Dashboard tool called Squirrel that is being developed as a follow-on to Xcelsius.

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Paul Blogs on BI

APRIL 19, 2019

If we compare the core functionality of Tableau and PowerBI from the standpoint of a self-service data discovery and visualization tool, they have comparable functionality but that’s really where the similarities end. The real issue is integration with BusinessObjects.

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Paul Blogs on BI

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

In fact, The Eagles are a lot like BusinessObjects in that they have a unique and addictive Business Intelligence solution whose fan base just continues to grow. The fact is that BusinessObjects remains the Business Intelligence suite of choice for both SAP and non-SAP customers. due for general availability in 2020.

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Paul Blogs on BI

OCTOBER 6, 2022

So, for Part 4 of this blog series, I would like to review how you can leverage BusinessObjects to enable and accelerate tools like PowerBI. . There appears to be a general misunderstanding that organizations can save money by converting from BusinessObjects to PowerBI. Nothing could be further from the truth.

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datapine

MARCH 22, 2019

Businesses need analytics-driven insights focused on their team’s performance as well as customer happiness levels to determine the strengths and weaknesses that affect their overall business objectives. You can use different scales to measure the experience or emojis (visual representation of satisfactory levels).

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Paul Blogs on BI

DECEMBER 18, 2019

The fact is that dashboards dominate as the primary user interface for both Business Intelligence and operational solutions. While the larger companies have moved towards popular BI visualization tools like Tableau and PowerBI, they still also create custom dashboards for the more specialized applications.

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Paul Blogs on BI

MAY 27, 2020

These are unprecedented times and we have never been more unsure about the future which is why Business Intelligence is more important than ever. Web Intelligence, IDT Universe Design, BusinessObjects administration, Dashboard design and data visualization. Live Q&A sessions. Bootcamp.

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Paul Blogs on BI

JUNE 1, 2022

Whoever created the phrase, “best thing since sliced bread”, it has prevailed in our English vocabulary since the 1930’s as an expression that refers to something that someone thinks is very good, original, and exciting, which is exactly why I want to blog about InfoBurst Squirrel.

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Paul Blogs on BI

MARCH 8, 2019

Being someone who is passionate about Business Intelligence, I realized that passion is driven by inspiring, learning about and sharing Business Intelligence solutions that make a positive difference in people’s lives. Jose Ferrero will be showing how Freeport MacMoRan are using the new features in Web Intelligence 4.2

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Paul Blogs on BI

APRIL 13, 2023

It also makes for great viewing from the visitors who can really see the relative size of the two species alongside each other as well as the Zebra adding some nice visual contrast to the grey rhino (By the way I found out that Zebra’s are actually black with white stripes – I always thought it was the other way round).

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Paul Blogs on BI

JULY 9, 2018

In the world of Business Intelligence there are many good players out there too and historically they have just played on one team. These new BI companies focused on self-service data discovery and visualization and left the legacy BI companies trying to copy them and play catch up.

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Paul Blogs on BI

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

In Part 1 of this blog, we reviewed the top 5 main differentiators between BusinessObjects Web Intelligence and PowerBI, as determined by 2 different independent BI consultants who have worked and continue to work extensively with both tools.

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Sisense

MAY 11, 2021

Both of these concepts resonated with our team and our objectives, and so we found ourselves supporting both to some extent. The right data model + artificial intelligence = augmented analytics. You can’t talk about data analytics without talking about data modeling. Dig into AI. displaying BI insights for human users).

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Paul Blogs on BI

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

and the biggest change is the radically new Web Intelligence user interface. Anyone who creates or maintains Web Intelligence reports would be advised to take at least a 1-day differences training course to fully understand both the visual changes and new functionality.

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Paul Blogs on BI

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Building Dashboards in Webi nicely broken up into 2-hour standalone modules, there will be 90 seminar sessions in five different tracks including BusinessObjects Administration and Universe Design, BI Reporting, BI Dashboards and Data Visualization, InfoBurst, Customer Case studies and BI innovations.

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Paul Blogs on BI

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The same can be said when creating Business Intelligence dashboards. Four of the biggest challenges when building BI dashboards are: Scalability.

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Paul Blogs on BI

JANUARY 12, 2018

In the world of Business Intelligence, predictions by leading experts and vendors have also not always been stellar. Hopefully, SAP has learned from its mistakes with the failed Lumira and Visual Design Studio products and will make sure they build in seamless integration with BusinessObjects out of the box.

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Paul Blogs on BI

JULY 30, 2018

Some BO Dashboard customers have tried using the newer versions of Web Intelligence for dashboard development and that can be a solution for simple dashboards, but it still lacks both the dynamic visualization and ease of development of Xcelsius.

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Paul Blogs on BI

MARCH 25, 2018

The key to BusinessObjects huge global success over the last 25 years is the semantic layer with its unique ability to present simple business terms to users that they can drag and drop and apply conditions and formulas to without writing any SQL or needing to know the underlying data.

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Paul Blogs on BI

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Of course, there is a lot of cool features that came along in SP4, 5 and 6 that you would be missing out on like parity between the Java/HTML Webi viewers, the new Fiori HTML5 UI, New visualization and graphic capabilities for Webi and a lot more.

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erwin

MAY 27, 2020

Data modeling supports collaboration among business stakeholders – with different job roles and skills – to coordinate with business objectives. Data resides everywhere in a business , on-premise and in private or public clouds. Provide metadata and schema visualization regardless of where data is stored.

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IBM Big Data Hub

OCTOBER 20, 2023

AI technology is quickly proving to be a critical component of business intelligence within organizations across industries. Apart from pricing, there are numerous other factors to consider when evaluating the best AI platforms for your business. trillion in value. What types of features do AI platforms offer?

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DataRobot Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Learn more from guest blogger Ikechi Okoronkwo, Executive Director, Business Intelligence & Advanced Analytics at Mindshare. We can ingest custom data sources, including event-level data with tools for faster speed to insights with bespoke visualization and dashboarding capabilities.

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erwin

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Data Cataloging: Catalog and sync metadata with data management and governance artifacts according to business requirements in real time. Import existing Excel or CSV files, use the drag-and-drop feature to extract the mappings from your ETL scripts, or manually populate the inventory to then be visualized with the lineage analyzer.

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Alation

AUGUST 26, 2021

For this reason, data intelligence software has increasingly leveraged artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI and ML) to automate curation activities, which deliver trustworthy data to those who need it. How Do Data Intelligence Tools Support Data Culture? BI and AI for Data Intelligence. Data curation.

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