by Blogger@olap | Jan 26, 2015 | BI Strategy, Business Reporting, Data Visualization, OLAP, OLAP and Excel, Strategic Dashboards, Technology and Trends
The article, The File-less Organization: Why Excel Isn’t Enough for Businesses, from Dataversity.net is quite astute in the way it identifies Excel as a problem–noting that each manager gathers his or her own version of the numbers to bring to a meeting. And so...
by Jack Guarneri | Dec 9, 2014 | Application/Data Integration, BI Solutions, BI Strategy, BI System, Big Data, Business Analytics, Business Intelligence Suite, Data Analysis, Data Management, Data Warehousing, OLAP, Technology and Trends
Some vendors have run from the four letters OLAP…and yet, articles continue to be published, and assertions made, that “analytical processing” is entering a new phase. There’s a new acronym in the market, HTAP, which stands for Hybrid Transactional/Analytical...
by Blogger@olap | Oct 21, 2014 | Application/Data Integration, BI Solutions, BI Strategy, BI Studies, BI System, Business Analytics, Business Budgeting, Business Intelligence Suite, Business Planning, Data Analysis, Infographic, Predictive Analytics, Technology and Trends
A great infograhic from the Master of Science in Computer Information Systems program at Boston University. The BU researchers focused on: growth of business intelligence, management of data, decision-making and budgeting. Enjoy! {Originally posted...
by Blogger@olap | Sep 19, 2014 | BI Strategy, Business Forecasting, Business Intelligence Suite, Business Planning, Data Analysis, Technology and Trends, Uncategorized
There are three important patterns happening in the world that will ultimately change business in fundamental ways: where it is done, how it is done, and who does it. An article from McKinsey Quarterly, Management Intuition for the Next 50 Years, documents these...
by Blogger@olap | Jun 2, 2014 | OLAP, Technology and Trends
OLAP applications have, by most accounts, made their biggest impact in Finance Departments. Of course, financial analysts aren’t the only staff who can benefit from OLAP capabilities. There are applications that provide reports and analyses to sales and marketing...
by Blogger@olap | May 1, 2014 | BI Solutions, OLAP, Technology and Trends
The Ongoing OLAP Revolution This is the first of several posts that will examine developments that continue to make OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) an exceptionally powerful, significantly valuable sector of the software solution market. As we will see, some of...