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Self-Service BI Myths and Truths

As I discussed in The Road to Self-Service BI, enterprises need a better understanding of self-service BI so they can avoid the common mistakes often made with it. Self-Service BI Truths The primary goal of self-service BI is to enable... Continue reading

Posted 2 days ago at Data Doghouse - performance management, business intelligence, and data warehousing

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The Road to Self-Service BI

For years vendors and pundits have heralded the age of self-service business intelligence (BI) thanks to the arrival of the latest generation of BI tools. First, they talked about how dashboard, OLAP and ad-hoc query were going to enable business... Continue reading

Posted 4 days ago at Data Doghouse - performance management, business intelligence, and data warehousing

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Boston TDWI Meeting - May 9, 2013

You are cordially invited to attend the upcoming free TDWI Boston Chapter meeting. All BI and DW professionals are welcome to attend. Please RSVP. When: Thursday, May 9, 2013 12:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Where: Deveber Conference Room Children’s Hospital... Continue reading

Posted May 3, 2013 at Data Doghouse - performance management, business intelligence, and data warehousing

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Suggestion #5 for the analytical sandbox: solutions must be cost- and resource-effective

When creating analytical sandboxes for business users, keep the following design principle in mind to help ensure you provide the right environment for your enterprise: Solutions must be cost- and resource-effective - All enterprises need to operate within budgetary and... Continue reading

Posted Apr 4, 2013 at Data Doghouse - performance management, business intelligence, and data warehousing

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Suggestion #4 for the analytical sandbox: sufficient infrastructure must be available for conducting business analytics

When creating analytical sandboxes for business users, keep the following design principle in mind to help ensure you provide the right environment for your enterprise: Sufficient infrastructure must be available for conducting business analytics - The infrastructure for an analytical... Continue reading

Posted Apr 3, 2013 at Data Doghouse - performance management, business intelligence, and data warehousing

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Suggestion #3 for the analytical sandbox: the business analyst needs to be “in control”

When creating analytical sandboxes for business users, keep the following design principle in mind to help ensure you provide the right environment for your enterprise: The business analyst needs to be “in control” - IT has traditionally managed the data... Continue reading

Posted Apr 2, 2013 at Data Doghouse - performance management, business intelligence, and data warehousing

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Suggestion #2 for the analytical sandbox: time-to-solution must be fast and disposable

When creating analytical sandboxes for business users, keep the following design principle in mind to help ensure you provide the right environment for your enterprise: Time-to-solution must be fast and disposable - Today’s competitive business environment and fluctuating economy are... Continue reading

Posted Mar 28, 2013 at Data Doghouse - performance management, business intelligence, and data warehousing

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Designing the analytical sandbox: data across the enterprise needs to be accessible and timely

When creating analytical sandboxes for business users, keep the following design principle in mind to help ensure you provide the right environment for your enterprise: Data across the enterprise needs to be accessible and timely - Business analytics is inhibited... Continue reading

Posted Mar 27, 2013 at Data Doghouse - performance management, business intelligence, and data warehousing

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Analytics Best Practices: The Analytical Sandbox

So this situation sounds familiar, and you are wondering if you need an analytical sandbox... The goal of an analytical sandbox is to enable business people to conduct discovery and situational analytics. This platform is targeted for business analysts and... Continue reading

Posted Mar 26, 2013 at Data Doghouse - performance management, business intelligence, and data warehousing

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Does your business need an analytical sandbox?

Is your enterprises flooded with a deluge of data about customers, prospects, business processes, suppliers, partners and competitors? Is data coming from traditional internal systems, cloud applications, social networking and mobile communications? With this flood of new data comes the... Continue reading

Posted Mar 21, 2013 at Data Doghouse - performance management, business intelligence, and data warehousing

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5 Principles of Analytical Hub Architecture - Part 2

Continuing the discussion on analytical hub design, here's the second part of my post on the architecture principles. If you missed the first two principles (1. Data from everywhere needs to be accessible and integrated and 2. Building solutions must... Continue reading

Posted Mar 20, 2013 at Data Doghouse - performance management, business intelligence, and data warehousing

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Big Data & The Wizard of Oz Syndrome

An excellent article in the Wall Street Journal, “Big Data, Big Blunders,” discussed five mistakes commonly made by enterprises when initiating their first Big Data projects. The technology hype cycle, which reminds me a lot of The Wizard of Oz,... Continue reading

Posted Mar 18, 2013 at Data Doghouse - performance management, business intelligence, and data warehousing

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5 Principles of Analytical Hub Architecture - Part 1

As I discused the other day in Why you need an analytical hub, enterprises need to spend time looking forward, rather than just backwards at historical data. The analytical hub is an important part of making that happen. The analytical... Continue reading

Posted Mar 14, 2013 at Data Doghouse - performance management, business intelligence, and data warehousing

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Why you need an analytical hub

Enterprises are flooded with a deluge of data about their customers, prospects, business processes, suppliers, partners and competitors. It comes from traditional internal systems, cloud applications, social networking and mobile communications. With the flood of new data comes the opportunity... Continue reading

Posted Mar 11, 2013 at Data Doghouse - performance management, business intelligence, and data warehousing

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Analytics Can Change Your Business

In his article in Big Data, Bob Eve offers this quote from Professors Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson of MIT: "Companies that inject Big Data and analytics into their operations show productivity rates and profitability that are 5% to 6%... Continue reading

Posted Mar 8, 2013 at Data Doghouse - performance management, business intelligence, and data warehousing

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TDWI Boston Dec 6 - Secrets of Analytical Leaders: Insights from Information Insiders +

ATTENTION ALL BI/DW AND ANALYTICS PROFESSIONALS IN THE BOSTON AREA Dear Boston BI/DW and Analytics Professionals, We cordially invite you to attend our upcoming TDWI Boston Chapter meeting on December 6, 2012. Come meet other local professionals, swap business cards,... Continue reading

Posted Nov 30, 2012 at Data Doghouse - performance management, business intelligence, and data warehousing

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A Better Way to Fuel Analytical Needs

We have reached a tipping point sometime in the last few years when analytics is being driven by business people rather than technologists. It has truly become business analytics. Although the “cash cow” of business intelligence is still pre-built dashboards... Continue reading

Posted Nov 21, 2012 at Data Doghouse - performance management, business intelligence, and data warehousing

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Revenge of the Nerds

A recent article in The Wall Street Journal, “Revenge of the Nerds, the Sequel: Silicon Valley Wallflowers Now Hot”, notes that business-tech start-ups were emerging from obscurity and the shadows of the social media companies. The stock performance of Facebook... Continue reading

Posted Sep 27, 2012 at Data Doghouse - performance management, business intelligence, and data warehousing

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The State of Data and Analytics

The good news is that enterprises have recognized the significant business value of analyzing the surging amount of information and then acting upon that analysis. The bad news is that many enterprises have become overwhelmed by the information deluge and... Continue reading

Posted Sep 19, 2012 at Data Doghouse - performance management, business intelligence, and data warehousing

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Going to TDWI Conference in Boston September 19-20?

I’ll be attending the TDWI World Conference in Boston, my hometown, next week. The conference theme is Agile BI. As many of you know I am one of the Chapter offices of the TDWI Boston User Group. The user groups... Continue reading

Posted Sep 12, 2012 at Data Doghouse - performance management, business intelligence, and data warehousing

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Webinar Sept 11 - A Novel Approach to the Analytic Sandbox Challenge

Tuesday, Sept. 11 @ 4 ET A Novel Approach to the Analytic Sandbox Challenge The Briefing Room with Rick Sherman and Composite Software REGISTER NOW! The analytics development process involves a wide range of requirements, any one of which can... Continue reading

Posted Sep 9, 2012 at Data Doghouse - performance management, business intelligence, and data warehousing

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Decision time: Automated data integration tools versus manual coding

SearchDataManagement recently interviewed me about automated data integration tools versus manual coding: Data integration is often still done by hand, through SQL coding and stored procedures, according to Rick Sherman, founder of consultancy Athena IT Solutions in Stow, Mass. Writing... Continue reading

Posted Aug 30, 2012 at Data Doghouse - performance management, business intelligence, and data warehousing

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The Changing Face of Analytics: How to Stay Ahead

Tuesday, Aug. 28 @ 4 ET The Changing Face of Analytics: How to Stay Ahead The Briefing Room with Rick Sherman, Robin Bloor and Actian REGISTER NOW! The appetite for high-powered analytics is greater than ever these days, with increasing... Continue reading

Posted Aug 28, 2012 at Data Doghouse - performance management, business intelligence, and data warehousing

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IT needs to concentrate on creating an information backbone – part four of “four ways to change our approach to BI development”

This is the fourth post in my series on changing our approach to BI development. In order to break the BI backlog, move towards more pervasive BI and increase the BI business ROI, an enterprise needs to make fundamental changes... Continue reading

Posted Aug 22, 2012 at Data Doghouse - performance management, business intelligence, and data warehousing

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Establish hybrid BI development methodology – part three of “four ways to change our approach to BI development”

This is the third post in my series on changing our approach to BI development. In order to break the BI backlog, move towards more pervasive BI and increase the BI business ROI, an enterprise needs to make fundamental changes... Continue reading

Posted Aug 20, 2012 at Data Doghouse - performance management, business intelligence, and data warehousing

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