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15 November 2018

Is your BI solution keeping up with where a BI solution should be today?

Business intelligence (BI) is as much about incremental advancements as big ones that make the user's experience richer and more versatile and allow them to present their data in the best way possible. ...

14 November 2018

Business is nothing but collaborative. So why isn't business intelligence?

Business, by its very nature, is collaborative. And yet business intelligence (BI), the ultimate goal-enabler, is not – often robbing the organisation of its corporate memory around decision-making. ...

13 November 2018

Three phases of automated analytics maturity

When looking at how vendors are tackling augmented analysis, or automated analytics, there are three distinct phases of maturity:

12 November 2018

Five important trends for 2019

So, exactly what will be driving the analytics space next year?

08 November 2018

How to get ETL under control

What do you do when your ETL load is out of control, your team is maxed out, and turnaround times are defined in weeks instead of days? Since ETL is still 70% of every analytics project, the answer to this question will likely provide a breakthrough ...

01 November 2018

How to design effective analytic dashboards that look incredible and 8 easy steps

Dashboards are the go-to data hubs that businesses rely on for decision making. They provide visual answers to business questions so people can act fast on opportunities and issues. Dashboards are powerful tools....

21 June 2018

When Cloud BI makes sense and when it doesn't

Cloud BI isn't a silver bullet. It's just about deploying software in a difference place … the same challenges exist … 

02 May 2018

Five key innovations that have BI what it is today

The following five innovations have all significantly shaped the current era of business intelligence (BI).

05 April 2018

Yellowfin repeats strong global performance with robust growth in South Africa

Global business intelligence (BI) and analytics platform Yellowfin is following up strong global growth in 2017 with continuing expansion of its South African customer base and regional footprint. ...

28 March 2018

The key trends that I think will dominate the BI industry in 2018

These trends are being driven by several factors including the huge investments that have been made in AI, governance issues that have been associated with desktop analytic products, the increasing push toward enterprise products and the growing dema...

19 March 2018

The 5 most common mistakes when embedding analytics

I've spent the past 20 years working in analytics. Over that time, the industry has come a long way, in both impact and awareness. Whilst for many years my family and friends described my job as "IT", today they know and understand what I do fo...

23 February 2018

Is it time to fire your BI team?

There are many signs that your BI team isn't performing. Perhaps your peers are constantly complaining about analytics or you don't have the numbers you need to make decisions. Or your BI team may only be reacting to requests rather than deliver...

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