Business Intelligence

Spotfire Review 2016 Version 7.5 Version 7 was a major release for Spotfire, majoring on ease of use and a powerful user interface. The latest version 7.5 adds some significant capability in the area of collaboration, data connectivity , and very significant architectural enhancements. The in-analysis collaboration supports live discussion…

Business Intelligence 2016 For almost as long as I can remember various pundits have been forecasting BI trends – and guess what, the most accurate forecast they could have made would be that nothing was going to change. Just three or four years ago BI output largely consisted of paginated…

We need analytics to answer questions and discover hidden facts about our businesses. The questions are endless. Why did sales of a certain product spike last quarter? What strategies will reduce customer churn? How can we identify fraudulent activity? Business analytics technologies provide the means to answer many of these…

Domo Review Summary: Domo is a cloud BI solution that is targeted at larger businesses, and majors on ease-of-use, social sharing of information and transparent access to diverse data sources. The actual analytic capability is on a par with most other offerings of this genre, but since the platform is…

Understanding Data Mining and Business Intelligence To get started with this we need to define these two terms. Data mining is the act of trawling through historical data with the aim of finding patterns that might be useful in the future. Business intelligence is concerned with looking at historical and current…

Enterprise Analytics Enterprise analytics should deliver unambiguous models, avoid duplicated effort, provide ample mechanisms for monitoring model performance and resulting business performance, promote transparency, and support the discovery of opportunities and risks buried in data. We can state fairly categorically that this will not happen unless the analytical environment is integrated.…

Spotfire Tableau and Qlik Sense 2015 Here is the lowdown on these three analytics platforms: If you just want pretty visualizations choose Tableau. If you want easy-to-use visualizations with analytical beef choose Spotfire. If you want a unified view of your data and extensibility pick Qlik Sense. Of course Tableau and…

Fat Free Guide to What is Business Intelligence? Business intelligence is the eyes and ears of your business – or at least it should be. We use business intelligence technologies to tell us what is happening in our business and to diagnose any problems. In fact these are the two…

Big data analytics is concerned with the creation of value from the wide variety and high volume of data associated with big data, and often at a speed that traditional data management infrastructures cannot handle. Until value is extracted from big data it is a pure infrastructure cost. New types…