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Why Excel isn’t Enough for Businesses

Why Excel isn’t Enough for Businesses

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...
5 Essential Components of a Data Strategy

5 Essential Components of a Data Strategy

by Hellen Oti-Yeboah | Oct 28, 2013 | BI Strategy, Strategic Dashboards

Building a comprehensive data strategy for your organization can be a daunting task. Where do you start, and how do you put all the proper pieces in place for a suitable strategy to bring value to your company from data? The key is to ensure that the strategy focuses...
6 Golden Rules to Successful Dashboard Design

6 Golden Rules to Successful Dashboard Design

by Hellen Oti-Yeboah | Aug 29, 2013 | Analytical Dashboards, Operational Dashboards, Strategic Dashboards

Dashboards are often created on-the-fly with data being added simply because there is some white space not being used. Different people in the company ask for different data to be displayed and soon the dashboard becomes hard to read and full of meaningless...
Dashboard Design: Important Things You Need to Know

Dashboard Design: Important Things You Need to Know

by Hellen Oti-Yeboah | Jul 13, 2013 | Analytical Dashboards, Operational Dashboards, Strategic Dashboards

Dashboard design will definitely put your organizing skills into the test. Not only because there are myriads and myriads of parameters to keep in check but because your blog management would definitely depend on it. The Dashboard is basically the admin interface at...

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