State, Local Governments Face Unique Reporting Challenges
Years ago, after every heavy rain, there was sure to be an accident on one particular stretch of state highway in New Jersey. Surely NJDOT was aware of the flooding problem that caused countless vehicles to hydroplane? Perhaps not. Looking at the bigger picture, it’s...
Oracle Discoverer End of Life: Are You Still Using Decades-Old Reporting?
It’s the start of a new decade and a great opportunity to inventory the software applications you use or support. One of them that might be running on desktops in your organization is Oracle Discoverer. An early version of an ad hoc query reporting tool, Discoverer is...
For the Upcoming Decade, Analytics Is More Than a Trend
If you look back at the technology that was trending at the start of this decade, you’ll recognize a lot of the predictions. Google began testing self-driving cars. Facebook was poised to take over the world, soaring to become the most popular online site. Apple...
Businesses of All Sizes Can Benefit from Operational Reporting Tools
Whether your organization has 10, 10,000 or 100,000 employees, for daily business operations, you should be using an operational reporting software solution. Here’s why. Most companies can’t keep up with the growth of their operational data. When we think about the...
What’s in a Backup? Baltimore Finds Out the Hard Way
It’s a truth universally acknowledged in IT that time-intensive activities like network security, database backups and disaster recovery never receive the appreciation they deserve. Why should they? If a server goes down but traffic is seamlessly routed to another...
The Solution to Siloed Data is Transformation
Today’s growing data volume presents virtually limitless opportunities for organizations to optimize processes or increase profitability. But that’s only possible if data can be aggregated and analyzed to inform business decisions. Unfortunately, the large volumes of...
Data and Analytics Changes Ahead, According to Gartner
Data analytics promises to deliver a clearer vision of the world, a view based on actual metrics unclouded by our preconceptions. It’s a worthwhile goal, but difficult to reach when navigating the waters of technological changes like AI and machine learning. There’s a...
Tennis Analytics: Pros Now Use Data to Improve Their Game
Most of the big-name players are using it, but few are talking about it. Tennis is experiencing an analytics revolution. Top tennis players are paying six-figure retainers to analyst teams in hopes of gaining an edge over their competition. At the start of the 2017...
Connecting the Dots Between Business and College Campus
“Connecting the Dots” – making the connection between my internship with an early-stage business analytics company to my life as college sophomore. As a digital native generation, my world-view has always been filtered through a lens of connections. My mobile phone...
Found on an HR Dashboard: The Case of the Juul Thieves
The first in our data detective series. This is based on a true story, visualized with data originally from Kaggle’s Human Resources data set. Nina Singh is an executive admin in the HR department of her company. One of her many responsibilities is maintaining a...
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...
