by Lesley Burke | Aug 2, 2016 | BI Solutions, Big Data, Business Analytics, Business Budgeting, Business Forecasting, Business Planning, Data Analysis, Data Visualization, Data Warehousing, OLAP, Predictive Analytics, Spreadsheets
“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 with what Bernard is saying in his article, “Why You Must...
by Lesley Burke | Jul 11, 2016 | BI Solutions, BI Strategy, Big Data, Business Analytics, Business Planning, Data Management, OLAP
Human Resources is beginning to pull ahead in the Business Analytics world. One thing is certain, if you want to run a successful business, you need to hire the right people to help you get there. Who is in charge of recruiting and hiring your team members?...
by Blogger@olap | Sep 16, 2015 | BI Solutions, BI Strategy, BI System, OLAP and Excel, PARIS Tech blog, Spreadsheets, Technology and Trends
“Excel is one of those applications that the business world cannot live without.” So says one of 27 Excel experts commenting on Microsoft’s Power BI Suite and its effect on the great wide world of spreadsheet users. As Excel lovers, we couldn’t agree more! There’s a...
by Blogger@olap | Jul 1, 2015 | BI Strategy, BI Studies, OLAP, The Multidimensional View
If you think OLAP is Obsolete, A couple things could be possible: You don’t know what OLAP is. You haven’t seen a recent OLAP application. You never tried to do the knitty-gritty of business planning. You’ve resigned yourself to doing manual labor in Excel...
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...
