Paul Blogs on BI

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

If the data is not correct then its garbage in and garbage out, or as I have always said : BIG DATA + BAD DATA = BIG BAD DATA However, when it comes to a good data strategy, it’s not just about the quality of the data, it’s also about the design and functionality of the structure where it is housed.

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Jet Global

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Consultants and developers familiar with the AX data model could query the database using any number of different tools, including a myriad of different report writers. The SQL query language used to extract data for reporting could also potentially be used to insert, update, or delete records from the database.

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Jet Global

OCTOBER 7, 2020

For organizations considering a move to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Supply Chain Management (D365 F&SCM), or for those in the early stages of an implementation project, defining a clear strategy for curating data is a key to developing a comprehensive approach to reporting and analytics. What Are Data Entities?

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AWS Big Data

APRIL 4, 2024

Although this solution is designed to seamlessly interact with both Hive Metastore and the AWS Glue Data Catalog, we use the Data Catalog as our example in this post. It generates and publishes reports in Amazon S3, which are then accessible via Athena. It also downloads sample data files to use in the next step.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 24, 2022

LaTrobe is currently recruiting a replacement who will report to the COO and is expected to work closely with key senior leaders. Rouch joins from IT services and consulting firm Class where she’d been CTO since March 2020. Shane Kuret named BankVic CIO. Paul Keen departs from Nuix, Alexis Rouch takes CIO role. IT Leadership

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DataKitchen

AUGUST 27, 2021

Marketing invests heavily in multi-level campaigns, primarily driven by data analytics. This analytics function is so crucial to product success that the data team often reports directly into sales and marketing. As figure 2 summarizes, the data team ingests data from hundreds of internal and third-party sources.

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DataKitchen

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

They lack a place to centralize the processes that act upon the data to rapidly answer questions and quickly deploy sustainable, high-quality production insight. Automation provides a way to accomplish this without hiring expensive teams of consultants. New data is shared with users by updating reporting schema several times a day.

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datapine

MARCH 31, 2022

Being able to clearly see how the data changes in time is what makes it possible to extract relevant conclusions from it. For this purpose, you should be able to differentiate between various charts and report types as well as understand when and how to use them to benefit the BI process. BI consultant.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Real-time data gets real — as does the complexity of dealing with it CIOs should prioritize their investment strategy to cope with the growing volume of complex, real-time data that’s pouring into the enterprise, advises Lan Guan, global data and AI lead at business consulting firm Accenture.

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CDW Research Hub

JULY 27, 2021

Data volumes are growing exponentially, and traditional, on-premises data warehouses are constrained, overly complex, and costly to scale. The user can then consume the data through reports, web applications, mobile apps, or a data platform of their choice. Mitigate risks with a seamless cloud migration.

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Cloudera

JULY 21, 2022

Cloudera users can securely connect Rill to a source of event stream data, such as Cloudera DataFlow , model data into Rill’s cloud-based Druid service, and share live operational dashboards within minutes via Rill’s interactive metrics dashboard or any connected BI solution. Cloudera Data Warehouse). Apache Hive.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

A DSS leverages a combination of raw data, documents, personal knowledge, and/or business models to help users make decisions. The data sources used by a DSS could include relational data sources, cubes, data warehouses, electronic health records (EHRs), revenue projections, sales projections, and more.

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CDW Research Hub

APRIL 20, 2020

Many organizations move from a traditional data warehouse to a hybrid or cloud-based data warehouse to help alleviate their struggles with rapidly expanding data, new users and use cases, and a growing number of diverse tools and applications. Watch this video for a quick overview of the process.

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AWS Big Data

APRIL 3, 2023

Tens of thousands of customers run business-critical workloads on Amazon Redshift , AWS’s fast, petabyte-scale cloud data warehouse delivering the best price-performance. With Amazon Redshift, you can query data across your data warehouse, operational data stores, and data lake using standard SQL.

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datapine

MAY 9, 2019

“Without big data, you are blind and deaf and in the middle of a freeway.” – Geoffrey Moore, management consultant, and author. In a world dominated by data, it’s more important than ever for businesses to understand how to extract every drop of value from the raft of digital insights available at their fingertips.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 2, 2023

Critical to the success of the migration was AWS premier consulting partner Lemongrass, which enabled Pick n Pay to migrate its mission-critical SAP (including SAP S/4HANA) and non-SAP workloads to AWS, and provide the ability to manage these workloads with the highest levels of automation and agility. That’s worked well for us.

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Jet Global

APRIL 20, 2020

A new paradigm in reporting and analysis is emerging. There was always a delay between the events being recorded in financial systems (for example, the purchase of a product or service) and the ability to put that information in context and draw useful conclusions from it (for example, a weekly sales report).

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datapine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

A host of notable brands and retailers with colossal inventories and multiple site pages use SQL to enhance their site’s structure functionality and MySQL reporting processes. Whether you need to write database applications, perform administrative tasks or utilize a SQL report builder , this book is amongst the best books to learn SQL.

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DataKitchen

JANUARY 3, 2022

For example, teams working under the VP/Directors of Data Analytics may be tasked with accessing data, building databases, integrating data, and producing reports. Data scientists derive insights from data while business analysts work closely with and tend to the data needs of business units.

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Occam's Razor

APRIL 4, 2011

What's the difference between web reporting and web analysis? So here I what I actually said: If you see a data puke then you know you are looking at the result of web reporting, even if it is called a dashboard. Someone asked me this very simple question today. " That applies to what is analysis.

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Sisense

APRIL 17, 2020

“I recommend starting your data strategy with a right-to-left approach, focusing on the desired business outcomes first, instead of the data, to support those outcomes,” says Charles Holive, Sisense Managing Director of Data Monetization and Strategy Consulting. Define your desired outcome — before you start building.

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CIO Business Intelligence

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

In a recent report, he estimated that gen AI software revenues will grow from $3.7 He’s currently tracking 262 gen AI vendors, of which 117 specialize in text generation, and plans to produce a new version of the report in the next six months. billion this year to $36 billion by 2028. It’s transforming some of our workflows.”

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Alation

MARCH 29, 2022

In the 1970s, data was confined to mainframes and primitive databases. Reports required a formal request of the few who could access that data. The 1980s ushered in the antithesis of this version of computing — personal computing and distributed database management — but also introduced duplicated data and enterprise data silos.

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AWS Big Data

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Conclusion In this post, we showed how to use AWS Glue and the new connector for ingesting data from Azure Blob Storage to Amazon S3. This connector provides access to Azure Blob Storage, facilitating cloud ETL processes for operational reporting, backup and disaster recovery, data governance, and more. Learn more in README.

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datapine

MAY 21, 2019

Also, limited resources make looking for qualified professionals such as data science experts, IT infrastructure professionals and consulting analysts impractical and worrisome. In addition to increasing the price of deployment, setting up these data warehouses and processors also impacted expensive IT labor resources.

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Andrew White

DECEMBER 9, 2019

The outline of the call went as follows: I was taking to a central state agency who was organizing a data governance initiative (in their words) across three other state agencies. All four agencies had reported an independent but identical experience with data governance in the past. An enterprise-wide data governance board.

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Jet Global

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Allocate Adequate Time and Budget For Reports. Companies implementing a new ERP system may spend as much as 25% of their total budget developing reports. With all the other tasks required to make an ERP implementation or upgrade successful, the added burden of migrating reports makes matters even worse.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Organizations that scored in the top quartile for EA maturity in a recent Bizzdesign survey were three times more likely to report having organizational agility, which has been crucial during the past few years with the COVID-19 pandemic. Enterprise architect role Enterprise architects typically report to the CIO or other IT managers.

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Domino Data Lab

JANUARY 11, 2021

This means trading off granularity and latency of data for structures that make it easier to write queries that aggregate, filter and group results for reporting purposes. That said, there are many advantages to ensuring that data scientists have full access to not only read from, but also be able to write to data warehouse structures.

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IBM Big Data Hub

AUGUST 28, 2023

For more than 10 years, the publisher has used IBM Cognos Analytics to wrangle its internal and external operational reporting needs. And in the last few years, the team realized there was an opportunity to expand beyond centralized operational reporting to enable further business growth.

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datapine

JANUARY 24, 2021

.” – Capgemini and EMC² in their study Big & Fast Data: The Rise of Insight-Driven Business. You don’t have to do all the database work, but an ETL service does it for you; it provides a useful tool to pull your data from external sources, conform it to demanded standard and convert it into a destination data warehouse.

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Jet Global

OCTOBER 30, 2020

For leaders in the finance and accounting department, it can often be frustrating to have conversations with IT experts about your reporting needs. Reporting: A Few Technical Basics. Financial and operational reports retrieve master data and transactional information from your ERP databases using something called “SQL.”

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Jet Global

APRIL 30, 2019

Built from the bones of Dynamics AX, the cloud-based Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations (D365FO) has introduced some new out-of-the-box reporting and analytical capabilities to customers. In this blog post, we are going to cover Data Entities. Many data entities are aimed at specific areas for reporting. Reference (Ex.

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Alation

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Data curation is important in today’s world of data sharing and self-service analytics, but I think it is a frequently misused term. When speaking and consulting, I often hear people refer to data in their data lakes and data warehouses as curated data, believing that it is curated because it is stored as shareable data.

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Smart Data Collective

JULY 20, 2021

7 Conga Composer: Conga composer is an effective integration toolthat helps you manage and update the data. It simplifies the document generation and reporting solutions that enable professionals to understand the data more accurately. This tool will help you to sync and store data from multiple sources quickly.

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BizAcuity

APRIL 1, 2023

Thanks to the recent technological innovations and circumstances to their rapid adoption, having a data warehouse has become quite common in various enterprises across sectors. This is where business intelligence consulting comes into the picture. What is Business Intelligence?

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AWS Big Data

MAY 10, 2023

A write-back is the ability to update a data mart, data warehouse, or any other database backend from within BI dashboards and analyze the updated data in near-real time within the dashboard itself. AnyCompany currently uses Amazon Redshift as their enterprise data warehouse platform and QuickSight as their BI solution.

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