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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.”. 3) Analyzing data from different data sources.

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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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Great Storytelling With Data: Visualize Simply And Focus Obsessively

Occam's Razor

The difference between a Reporting Squirrel and Analysis Ninja? As in, the former is in the business of providing data, the latter in the business of understanding the performance implied by the data. Do you see how far away a Reporting Squirrel's job is from that of an Analysis Ninja? It is really 88%. : ).