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Infographic: 7 Key Business Intelligence Software Trends for 2019
7 Key Business Intelligence Software Trends for 2019 By Keith Craig, Better Buys Peter Drucker, father of the Knowledge Economy and business management guru said, “Knowledge has to be improved, challenged and increased constantly, or it vanishes.” Nowadays,...
7 Interesting Facts About OLAP History
Not too long ago businesses found it very difficult to query data out of their recently acquired relational databases. These queries were too slow to be processed by computer systems of the time as well as too inflexible to navigate the data. After trying different...
Distinguishing Business Analytics and Business Intelligence
As the fields of business intelligence and business analytics continue to develop and grow, organizations must be aware of the distinctions between the terms and understand their value. Adoption and usage of business intelligence and analytics tools show no sign of...
How Business Intelligence Helps To Identify Opportunities And Threats
Business intelligence in action: KPIs can do more than performance management. Defining KPIs can also help businesses to identify threats and opportunities.
Infographic: Business Analyst vs. Data Scientist
Business Analytics vs. Data Science "Business analytics" and "data science" -- are they basically interchangeable terms, or entirely separate professional pursuits? There's certainly overlap on the topic of Big Data and using data to inform decisions. There is no...
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[Infographic] Business Analytics : The Intersection of Science and Business
What is Business Analytics? Science and business continue to intersect, most recently on the topic of data analytics. Generally speaking, "data analytics" is the process of organizing and interpreting data to uncover valuable information. "Business [data] analytics"...
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History of OLAP and BI
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