by orbit_admin | Dec 1, 2020 | Blog, 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...
by orbit_admin | Jul 5, 2018 | Blog, Business Intelligence
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...
by orbit_admin | Jun 21, 2018 | Blog, Business Intelligence
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...
by orbit_admin | May 20, 2018 | Blog, Data Visualization
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...
by orbit_admin | Mar 14, 2018 | Blog, Business Intelligence
The average business worker uses multiple applications throughout the day for productivity purposes. In fact, by mid-2014, modern enterprises used about 508 applications in their business operations. Today, that number has most likely increased due to the...