When SQL Isn’t Enough: Augmented Analytics
The need to stay competitive is driving businesses to invest deeply in digital transformation, seeking ways to obtain insights that go beyond static reports and dashboards. Augmented analytics is a class of tools that use machine learning and artificial intelligence...
Advanced Analytics: What Do I Need to Know About R?
Your organization doesn’t have to be a Google, Facebook or Shell Oil to have a use for large volumes of data, like those that are sitting in a data warehouse or publically available online. Unfortunately, cleaning and aggregating this data to create intelligible...
Advanced Analytics: What Do I Need to Know About Python?
Although it has been around since 1991, the Python language is currently in its heyday; in fact it ranked as one of the most popular programming languages last year (both in Stack Overflow’s yearly developer survey and the number of Github pull requests.) It ranks...
HR Has a Recruitment Problem. Analytics Can Help.
Ask your favorite HR person and they’ll most likely tell you that far and away their biggest challenge is recruiting talent, especially for technical roles. Their dilemma: organizations today have deep investments in software, but face a shortfall of staff with the...
Data Mashing: A Lens on Enterprise Data
“Data mashing” seems like a poor description of a process. You are not bludgeoning the data. Instead, data mashing is more like using a kaleidoscope – mixing together different types of data and seeing what it looks like through a single lens. The difference is that,...
The Key to Analytics Success is in the Next Cubicle
Citizen Data Scientists Are the Critical Staff You’ve Already Hired For the past two decades, web development has been a bottomless reservoir of employment for developers, especially those with skills like Javascript. But the next decade belongs to data science. Case...
A “Single Pane of Glass” Dashboard
The concept of a “single pane of glass” dashboard was a topic of a recent post by SQL Server Central blogger Steve Jones. This is originally a DevOps concept, the idea being that when you work using a continuous development/deployment model, you need one single source...
PII Data and Data Masking
Organizations are legally required to ensure that their employees’ personal information remains confidential. Compliance can be as simple a process as shredding paper forms, but more likely it involves securing data held in computer systems; for example, payroll or...
3 Features You Need from Your BI Tool
Few events in history come close to matching the enormity of the Big Data explosion. According to industry research, 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created every day. That's approximately 2.5 exabytes. For perspective, if every word ever spoken were quantified in...
Is Your Business “Intelligent”?
The term Business Intelligence has been around since the 1920s, but gained prominence from the 1950s onwards. The advent of data processing mainframe systems and early DBMS allowed for data to be stored, processed and reported. Interest in BI revolutionized in the...
Common Operational Reporting Questions Answered
This post outlines the different types of features that are necessary to optimize real-time reporting with minimal performance degradation. If your business relies on ERP and Cloud applications for its day-to-day functions, you've probably encountered one, if not...
What Data Visualization Should I Use?
Raw data sets that are aggregated from corporate repositories, social media channels, company website metrics and other sources all have the potential to be of great value to an organization, but they don't actually convey meaning at a glance. This is where data...
