by Jack Guarneri | Jan 16, 2019 | BI Solutions, BI Strategy, Business Forecasting, Business Planning, EPM - Enterprise Performance Management
By Jack Guarneri In the far distant past (OK, just a few years ago) prospects would balk at the idea of EPM in the Cloud. Putting key company information, like the kind contained in an EPM solution, into the Cloud was considered too risky. Things sure have changed:...
by Jack Guarneri | Sep 8, 2015 | Application/Data Integration, BI Solutions, BI Strategy, BI System, Data Management, PARIS Tech blog, Technology and Trends
A recent post on the PARIS Tech Blog, The Problem in the BI Market, highlights a few key facts/issues in the BI market. Some of these include disconnected applications, disconnected IT and front-end users, and slow processing times. Most interesting is the emphasis...
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 Jack Guarneri | Dec 16, 2013 | BI Strategy, Spreadsheets
Excel is pervasive in businesses, with a probably very low estimate of a couple of hundred million users around the world. Countless companies run some part of their reporting, analytics or planning systems using spreadsheets. For this good reason Excel is regarded...
by Jack Guarneri | Nov 21, 2013 | BI Strategy, BI System, Data Management
ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems are widely acknowledged as a backbone software component for mid-to-large sized companies. The general idea is to create efficiencies in the way a business is run by gathering information from different functional...
