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3 reasons why business and data analysts need to work with real-time events

IBM Big Data Hub

Uncertainty is expected and complexity is compounding. To meet these objectives, business and data professionals need to go beyond cookie-cutter business intelligence, data visualization dashboards and data analytics tools. Advantages of event-driven solutions This is where event-driven solutions excel.

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insightsoftware Acquires Event 1 Software

Jet Global

. – July 16, 2020 – insightsoftware , a global provider of enterprise software solutions for the Office of the CFO, today announced it has acquired Event 1 Software , a provider of intelligent, Excel-based reporting solutions. About Event 1 Software. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Based in Vancouver, Wash.,

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The Art and Science of FP&A Storytelling

Timo Elliott

With advanced analytics, flexible dashboarding and effective data visualization, FP&A storytelling has become both an art and science. Dashboards and analytics have been around for a long, long time. First, because uncertainty exploded. I’ve worked with hundreds of dashboard and data visualization projects over the years.

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What are decision support systems? Sifting data for better business decisions

CIO Business Intelligence

A DSS supports the management, operations, and planning levels of an organization in making better decisions by assessing the significance of uncertainties and the tradeoffs involved in making one decision over another. ERP dashboards. These models are used to establish relationships between events and factors related to that event.

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How to Move from Real-Time Data to Real-Time Decisions

CIO Business Intelligence

Hubbard defines measurement as: “A quantitatively expressed reduction of uncertainty based on one or more observations.”. This acknowledges that the purpose of measurement is to reduce uncertainty. And the purpose of reducing uncertainty is to make better decisions. Yet a lot of data still ends up on a dashboard.

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How Data Can Help You Manage Extreme Change

Sisense

From daily operations and managing inventory to building virtual events to replace in-person ones, there are new threats to maintaining business continuity. Now is the time to apply the full force of business intelligence used by analytics teams to help navigate growing uncertainty. Digital transformation: The shift to virtual events.

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Operational Finance in the Age of Covid-19: Time to Change the Basics?

Jet Global

Not only have finance teams had to close companies’ books remotely, but they’ve also been required to provide the insight and information needed for some extremely complex decision-making, and continuously plan and forecast for events with little or no historical context. Tip 3: Make decisions with operational data.

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