by Tom Kosko | Jun 15, 2015 | Application/Data Integration, BI Solutions, BI Strategy, BI Studies, BI System, Business Intelligence Suite, Data Analysis, Technology and Trends
Business data and BI software are currently beginning a new phase of evolution. In this new phase, users of business data will be able to collaborate and connect with other colleagues and team members without multiple spreadsheets and laborious processes. The BI user...
by Blogger@olap | Apr 27, 2015 | Data Warehousing, Spreadsheets
Pivot Tables aren’t merely a way to interact with your data. You also can use them as a rich source of data for regular reports and analyses…without using the weak function, GETPIVOTDATA. by Charley Kyd, MBA Microsoft Excel MVP You can use a Pivot Table...
by Blogger@olap | Mar 31, 2015 | Application/Data Integration, BI Strategy, Big Data, Business Analytics, Data Management, Technology and Trends
In this Forbes.com article, Making Big Data Fast, Howard Baldwin makes a great point about data needing to be FAST in order to deliver value. Big data has a historical focus, whereas Fast Data seeks to enable action. For us at OLAP.com, we have seen...
by Blogger@olap | Mar 17, 2015 | BI Solutions, BI Strategy, Big Data, Data Analysis
This article “Which Do We Need More: Big Data or Fast Data?” from Entrepreneur.com shines a light on the buzz word Big Data, and makes a reference to the Fresh Prince of Belair, which is always awesome. The article astutely points out that Big Data is not...
by Blogger@olap | Feb 23, 2015 | BI Strategy, Data Management, OLAP
OLAP technology has continued to develop, a good indicator of its broad applicability in the software solution market. And though newer doesn’t always mean improved, our opinion is that the most recent OLAP technologies are faster and (generally) better than...
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...
