Those of you who were not able to travel to Boston to the DIUC this June (and that includes me) might be interested to sneak a preview of the DI Roadmap and Purpose that was presented as the Keynote by Fred Powers, President and CEO of Dimensional Insight. Of course, as always you will be able see much of the innovative content from the Boston DIUC when it’s presented at our own user conference in Dublin which is scheduled to take place on Tuesday October 17th. You should mark it in your diary now!More
Chaos v Control. The Art of Balancing Freedom & Governance in Data Analytics
The Key Message from Gartner’s Data Summit In Kathy’s blog highlighting key takeaways form the Gartner Data & Analytics Summit in Dallas, Texas which took place at the beginning of March 2017, she started by sharing the insights of Gartner analyst Thomas Oestrich. In his view organisations need to: Define their “rules of the game” […]
Don’t Rely On Luck When it Comes to BI
One of the most surprising takeaways from the Gartner business intelligence Magic Quadrant is that by 2016, 90% of self-service BI initiatives will lack the data governance required to prevent inconsistencies capable of negatively impacting an organization.More
The Single Biggest Takeaway from the Gartner BI Magic Quadrant that You Probably Missed
90% of self-service business intelligence (BI) initiatives don’t have the right foundation, and as a result, the decisions your users are making may be putting your business at risk.More
Blog No. 12 What’s Latin got to do with BI? More than you might think.
Are you the kind of person that believes “quidquid Latine dictum sit altum videtur”? You might not know what it means – neither did I, but I had heard this term bandied about every now and again, and when I googled it…More
Avoid the Need to Go Back to the Future in 2015
Users are demanding an easy to use, customizable, self-service, data discovery tool that maintains data integrity and can serve up a single version of the truth.More
Blog No 4. HOW TO GET YOUR APPLES TO LOOK LIKE ORANGES
In many organisations, each department might be using disparate systems to analyse their data, so to try to make decisions based on what is happening across the company as a whole, you have to grapple with this “apple v orange” problem.More