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How Newcomp Analytics partners with IBM to advance clients’ supply chain insights

IBM Big Data Hub

Left to their own devices, they had resorted to using legacy reporting tools such as Excel that required manual gathering, slicing and dicing of data. Consequently, this data was siloed, unshareable, hard to use, lacked quality and governance controls, and could not be used in automated processes.

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Common Business Intelligence Challenges Facing Entrepreneurs

datapine

“There is no doubt that today, self-service BI tools have well and truly taken root in many business areas with business analysts now in control of building their own reports and dashboards rather than waiting on IT to develop everything for them.”. Ineffective dashboards can be easily updated to focus on business needs.

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Great Storytelling With Data: Visualize Simply And Focus Obsessively

Occam's Razor

We send out our multi-tab spreadsheets, our best Google Analytics custom reports , our great dashboards full of data , and more to the tactical layer of data clients. Use these standard data visualization approaches to communicate more effectively to quicker internalization of reality. #9. It is really 88%. : ).