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Trakstar unlocks new analytical opportunities for its HR customers with Amazon QuickSight

AWS Big Data

In 2022, Trakstar launched what is now called Trakstar Insights, which unlocks new analytical insights for HR across the employee life cycle. It’s powered by Amazon QuickSight , a cloud-native business intelligence (BI) tool that enables embedded customized, interactive visuals and dashboards within the product experience.

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5 tips for excelling at self-service analytics

CIO Business Intelligence

One potential solution to this challenge is to deploy self-service analytics, a type of business intelligence (BI) that enables business users to perform queries and generate reports on their own with little or no help from IT or data specialists. But there are right and wrong ways to deploy and use self-service analytics.

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Common Business Intelligence Challenges Facing Entrepreneurs

datapine

“BI is about providing the right data at the right time to the right people so that they can take the right decisions” – Nic Smith. Data analytics isn’t just for the Big Guys anymore; it’s accessible to ventures, organizations, and businesses of all shapes, sizes, and sectors. We live in a mobile age.

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Optimize queries using dataset parameters in Amazon QuickSight

AWS Big Data

Then the visuals in the dashboard react to the user’s selection of parameter value. Parameters can also help connect one dashboard to another, allowing a dashboard user to drill down into data that’s in a different analysis. The data is loaded in an RDS for PostgreSQL database table called nytaxidata.

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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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Ten Hidden Gems In Google Analytics: Do Smarter Web Data Analysis!

Occam's Razor

Switch to User-ID by implementing Universal Analytics.]. We are also limited to the data Analytics collects by default. The bit we add to it is unique to our business, hence difficult for any analytics tool to address by default. There are dashboarding and visualization solutions (try Tatvic or NextAnalytics ).

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Simplify data loading into Type 2 slowly changing dimensions in Amazon Redshift

AWS Big Data

A dimension is a structure that captures reference data along with associated hierarchies, while a fact table captures different values and metrics that can be aggregated by dimensions. Dimensions provide answers to exploratory business questions by allowing end-users to slice and dice data in a variety of ways using familiar SQL commands.