by Lesley Burke | Mar 3, 2023 | BI Solutions, Big Data, Business Analytics, Business Budgeting, Business Forecasting, Business Planning, Data Analysis, Data Visualization, Data Warehousing, OLAP, Predictive Analytics, Spreadsheets
Excel is Not a one Stop Shop for your Data Needs “There’s nothing inherently wrong with spreadsheets; they’re excellent tools for many different jobs. But data visualization and data communication is not one of them.” – Bernard Marr We couldn’t agree more...
by Lesley Burke | Mar 3, 2023 | Application/Data Integration, BI Solutions, BI Strategy, Business Analytics, Business Budgeting, Business Planning, Data Analysis
28% of a Data Analyst’s Time is Spent on Data Prep James Haight of Blue Hill Research recently wrote a blog post that breaks down the costs and numbers of Data Preperation. Typical reports focus on hours and efficiency. As stated by James Haight, “At Blue Hill,...
by Lesley Burke | Mar 2, 2023 | Application/Data Integration, BI Solutions, Business Budgeting, Business Forecasting, Business Planning, Business Reporting, Data Analysis, Data Visualization, Data Warehousing, OLAP, OLAP and Excel
OLAP and Excel The Power of OLAP and Excel Should Excel be a key component of your company’s Business Performance Management (BPM) system? There’s no doubt how most IT managers would answer this question. Name IT’s top ten requirements for a successful BPM...
by Blogger@olap | Jan 17, 2020 | Business Budgeting, Business Forecasting, Infographic, OLAP and Excel, Spreadsheets
Check out this cool infographic! Submitted to OLAP.com by the folks at Business Intelligence Technologies. They’ve mapped here 5 warning signs that you and your professional team are living in Excel Hell. Perhaps it’s just been accepted that your Excel...
by Melinda Santos | Jan 23, 2019 | Data Management, Technology and Trends
By Jennifer Marley Every day the world generates more than 2.5 quintillion bytes of data. Many companies do not know what to do with this influx of data, and therefore hire people with specialized skills to collect, store, process, analyze, and develop business...
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:...