In our BI manifesto whitepaper, we discuss and outline how to effectively build a dashboard and avoid common mistakes. Dashboards have a very specific use and should not be confused with reports; this in itself is a common conceptual mistake. The following are key elements of a well-designed dashboard: Dashboards should be designed to answer
Read More...This week I perused the Internet in search of personal enlightenment. Instead I got a lot of cat pictures and a bunch of stuff about this guy named LeBron James. Plus these links, which I’m sure you’ll find as fulfilling as I did. 2010: The year Apple enters a new golden age. Novelist Nic Brown
Read More...In your eyes, how powerful is IT these days, especially as it relates to the bygone days of IT glory? I’m genuinely interested in your perspective.
Read More...In a former life I led a national CPG (consumer packaged goods)/Retail practice focused on assisting clients with implementing their business intelligence (BI) solutions and helping them understand how to get the most value to their organizations from these systems. As with every industry vertical, there is some uniqueness to CPG/Retail market. I am very
Read More...Chances are nobody is reading this post because they are on a beach or heading up north or in the backyard setting up a homemade slip-n-slide with baby shampoo (heard that on the radio this morning), so I’ll spare you the silly prefatory babble and get right to the links that you might be able
Read More...The future looks bright and innovative when you consider the latest wave in technology, which is cloud computing. But the more I learn, the more it seems like the future is what it used to be.
Read More...Today, we’ll get a even deeper into the PeopleSoft Benefits Administration guts. (Please see my previous post for the first dive.) As mentioned before, the delivered functionality of the PeopleSoft setup tables and the Benefits Administration process can’t handle every aspect of the new-hire processing requirements. Another common issue is that not all employee benefits
Read More...Ben Worthen, reporting for the WSJ: “The three things that are certain in life are death, taxes, and Oracle’s fourth quarter,” says Peter Goldmacher, an analyst at Cowen and Co. This year was no exception. For the period ended May 31, Oracle said total revenue rose 39% from the year-earlier period to $9.51 billion. Software
Read More...In the middle of doing some heavy RFP work right now, so I won’t tell you the story about the time some guy lost his mind in a volleyball tournament and flipped a picnic table over onto the referee who was reffing his match. This was his way of disputing an out of bounds call.
Read More...We have discussed previously the importance of data quality to business intelligence. I’d like to go a bit deeper on that topic here in this post. It is plainly obvious that your business intelligence will only be as good as the quality of your data; this, in turn, means the quality of business answers derived
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