One of Asia’s leading insurance companies with offices in 1100+ locations was looking for a next-generation reporting and analytics platform so that both internal employees and insurance agents could have access to the latest data and insights. Background &...
Why Contextual BI is critical for users to improve their productivity?
In one of its recent reports, Forrester has recommended Orbit as a preferred tool for instant, plug-and-play operational reporting. The report talks about the importance of giving business users the ability to quickly go from “data to insights”, without wasting too...
Legacy BI vs. Modern BI: What is the Future of BI looking like?
Deloitte Consulting popularized the phrase insights-driven organization (IDO). Essentially, this refers to companies that have meaningfully embedded data, analytics, and BI capabilities into the company’s decision-making process. What this also means is that BI and...
Top 4 Factors to consider during the evaluation process for choosing the right BI solution
Recently, Forrester published a report titled ‘Augmented BI Holds New Promises, But It’s Still Early Days’. The report highlighted the following key aspects: While several BI vendors are marketing their AI features and are pushing the need for augmented analytics, the...
Orbit BI Solution for ERP Applications
Business Intelligence has become critical today for enterprises to draw insights on data generated from across the company and make informed decisions to spur growth. The data is typically drawn by connecting to the enterprise resource planning (ERP) system used by...
Understanding the Difference Between Reporting and Analytics
The terms reporting and analytics are often explained interchangeably. This is unsurprising since both take in data as “input”, which is then processed and presented as charts, graphs, or dashboards. When it comes to reporting vs analytics in business, both are...
25 Years of Business Intelligence
The book Cyclopedia of Commercial and Business Anecdotes, published in 1865, describes how a banker named Sir Henry Furnese actively gathered information to base his business decisions on and beat the competition. In the early 20th century, Henry Ford is believed to...
What is Poor Quality Data Costing Your Organization?
From startups to mega-corporations, retail to healthcare, data is a fundamental part of the business model. But in the rush to become data-informed, are organizations failing to consider the costs of bad data quality? Quality data is a mission-critical requirement....
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 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,...
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...