The world’s largest, independent survey of business intelligence and performance management users, BI Survey 12 produced by the Business Application Research Center results are in. QlikView ranked again as the leader overall in visual analysis, innovation, project length and agility, and leader in Data Discovery for mobile BI and affordability. In continuing to outpace larger rivals [...]
By Phil Langdale Inside Info Director & Managing Consultant You’d be amazed how many times I see 100’s of packaged reports and data cubes put forward as an effective solution for managing performance across the supply chain or business in general, with companies still wondering why these business intelligence solutions aren’t widely used, service levels [...]
Bloomberg recently conducted a survey of 930 businesses across the globe to provide insight into the state of business analytics in organisations today. The results brought back a focus on the basics: Business analytics is still in the “emerging stage.” While analytics has gone mainstream, most organisations still rely on traditional technology. Spreadsheets are the [...]
Host Analytics, the leader in cloud corporate performance management (CPM), today announced a new reseller partnership with business analysis specialists Inside Info to deliver its award-winning CPM and business analytics technology to the Australian and New Zealand regions. This partnership comes at a time when local CFOs are looking to business analytics and the cloud [...]
Forrester Research has just released Microsoft’s positioning as a leader in the “The Forrester Wave™: Self-Service Business Intelligence Platforms, Q2 2012″ report. SQL 2012 has a lot to do with this. Forrester highlights Microsoft’s approach to delivering self-service BI through the familiar tools of Excel and SharePoint. According to the report, ” Microsoft has built on [...]
Sophisticated data models won’t do us much good unless decision-makers are able to interpret, understand and act on the results appropriately. Here are seven principles for designing analytic apps that lead to high user acceptance and results, from our team of consultants. Understand What Users Will Do With The Results Analytic interfaces should be driven by [...]
