April 8, 2019 Business Strategy & Perspectives
Before you leap into your BI project, consider the unsung hero of successful BI: documentation. Sure, it’s not sexy, but the effort you put in here, upstream off implementation, ensures everyone is working of the same playbook so you achieve success at the end.
Cognos Analytics 11.1 is now available and it’s a major new release. Our in-house Cognos expert Todd Schuman lists the new capabilities and changes he is most excited about in CA 11.1.
September 20, 2018 Tips & Tricks
Microsoft offers more than 20 tools in its BI and data warehouse ecosystem. If your organization uses the Microsoft platform to build its business intelligence and data warehouse solutions, understanding these assets…
June 20, 2018 Business Strategy & Perspectives
There are many options for preparing data for use in Tableau, from built-in tools to third-party platforms. We look at the options and provide five factors to take into account when determining which ones are best suited to the task at hand.
April 27, 2018 Business Strategy & Perspectives
Multidimensional (or OLAP) data structures are the basis for reports that are more dynamic, interactive and meaningful. But many authors do not realize they are reporting against multidimensional data and/or lack the knowledge to fully leverage the benefits. In this blog, we help you understand whether you have access to OLAP data, outline the benefits of multidimensional/OLAP report authoring and provide some background on the architecture.
April 11, 2018 Business Strategy & Perspectives
There are many business benefits that make Tableau a good choice as a third-party analytics tool when your reporting requirements exceed the capabilities that are native to Salesforce.
March 19, 2018 Business Strategy & Perspectives
Attempting to create reports in Tableau that replicate Excel worksheets is a crying shame. And if that’s what your organization is doing, you are missing the point – and the power – of Tableau.
Cognos Analytics Release 10 is now available. Our in-house Cognos expert Todd Schuman shares the features and capabilities he’s most excited about.
December 13, 2017 Tips & Tricks
Enjoy our annual collection of our Best Of webinars and blogs from the year. Here is a holiday treat that is gluten-free, sugar-free, organic and locally sourced!
November 20, 2017 News & Events
Tableau is ramping up to release 10.5 and we got to take Beta 2 for a spin. From significant enhancements and time savers to incremental improvements, this release has lots to please every type of user. Read on for our round up of what makes this release stand out.
