Hyperion Interactive Reporting (IR) (also known as BRIO Reporting) from Oracle is a robust and powerful business intelligence tool enabling ad-hoc querying, data analysis, intuitive dashboards, and other reporting capabilities. A flexible tool, it gave business...
Understanding the Difference Between Reporting and Analytics
The terms reporting and analytics are often used interchangeably. This is not surprising since both take in data as “input” -- which is then processed and presented in the form of charts, graphs, or dashboards. Reports and analytics help businesses improve operational...
AGILE, ADAPTIVE, ACTIONABLE: The 3As of insights-driven business transformation
The COO of a fast-growing luxury brand is sifting through sales data from 800+ locations all over the world. The business leader – who has spent over 40 years in the luxury segment – has had a front-row seat to the advent of using data and business intelligence to...
Self Service Financial Reporting and Analysis with Orbit’s GLSense
The CEO of Microsoft recently proclaimed that Excel is probably the best consumer product the company has ever made. With an estimated 750 million users worldwide, Excel has been a key part of almost all number crunching activities. Leaders in finance, too, have often...
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...
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...
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...