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 [...]
Aberdeen’s April 2012 survey on agile Business Intelligence (BI) showed that the top driver of BI are the managers demanding better tools to help make sense of their data (53%). While most companies may have recognised their need to create more effective BI strategy, many still struggle to deliver the tools and technologies efficiently while [...]
Some QlikView users may not be aware of QlikView’s repository panel. The repository is a QlikView app level entity that lists all sheet objects, dimensions and expressions that have been used within the current app. The repository panel is an AJAX client only entity. A user can view the content of the repository and elect [...]
