by Hellen Oti-Yeboah | Oct 19, 2013 | BI Strategy, Business Reporting
Businesses today have an increasing volume of sales performance data available from multiple sources. While most companies understand the potential value of this data, many struggle to turn it into actionable insights–especially at the executive level. Why?...
by Hellen Oti-Yeboah | Oct 17, 2013 | Data Visualization, Operational Dashboards
It’s easy to spot a “bad” data visualization—one packed with too much text, excessive ornamentation, gaudy colors, and clip art. Design guru Edward Tufte derided such decorations as redundant at best, useless at worst, labeling them “chart junk.” Yet a debate still...
by Hellen Oti-Yeboah | Oct 14, 2013 | BI Strategy, BI System
The partner to the data warehouse in most cases is business intelligence. The proper foundation for data storage is critical, but enabling the business to drive value and make good decisions will take your organization to the next level. To achieve this, a business...
by Hellen Oti-Yeboah | Oct 14, 2013 | Dashboards/Scorecards, Data Visualization
OLAP.com Commentary: This article from Computerworld uses an example from Nathan Yau’s book Data Points: Visualization That Means Something to show how to draw users to points of interest when presenting data visually. When you look at a visualization for the...
by Hellen Oti-Yeboah | Oct 7, 2013 | Big Data, Technology and Trends
Better medical outcomes at lower cost — these are the goals of modern health care. Data and analytics can play a major role in helping to achieve these objectives by enabling evidence-based decision making in the industry. Alas, with but a few exceptions, that...