This month Dimensional Insight launched their informative new magazine newsletter – called “TechBridge”. It’s a great way of keeping in touch with all that’s happening in the DI space, as well as hearing from industry experts and other users about their experiences. You can sign up through a link in this article.More
Video Sessions of DI Virtual User Conference 2020
For anyone who missed the DIVC which took place on Tuesday 15 and Wednesday 16 September online, or indeed those of you who participated and want to review the content, here is a link to the DI website page dedicated to recorded videos of the event.More
DI Knowledge Forum Library
You might have been joining the great new series of webinars in the series Knowledge Exchange Forum that DI have been hosting on Tuesday evenings at 7pm UK and Irish time. If you’re like a lot of people, this might have been difficult as it coincides with evening meal-times or after work clubs etc. So now you can view all the videos of past sessions and select just the topics that interest you!More
Dimensional Insight Virtual User Conference 2020
We’re lucky that nothing will prevent Dimensional Insight from keeping their user base appraised of all the latest developments coming out of the DI lab! To this end, you are invited to a no fee Virtual User Conference which is taking place online with time options to suit most users. The DIVC will take place on Tuesday 15 and Wednesday 16 September. Both days will have exactly the same programme, but start at different times to accommodate people in different time zones.More
The Changing Meaning of Data in a Post-Shutdown Economy
In the modern business landscape, it has become a no-brainer solution that when organizations are looking to plan ahead, they turn to data. But one of the unique challenges of this situation is that it has left many businesses with a lack of data that could help them analyze their way out of a problematic situation. Here’s how that has happened…and what companies might be able to do to try to get back to the new normal.More
Dimensional Insight Webinars
Have you discovered the latest online training resources published by Dimensional Insight on their website? The Diver Platform user interfaces in Workbench, DivePort and ProDiver have come a long way since the launch of Spectre, the columnar build engine that delivers diveable cBases at great speed. If you haven’t seen the latest tips and tricks for creating Dive files, QuickView sets, Spectre Build files with lookups and concats, or time based cplans – then now is your chance to catch up! More
Supply Chain Changes for a Post-Pandemic World
As states and countries re-open in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the hope is that everything will get back to normal. There are certainly aspects of life that will never quite get back to what they were like before the pandemic. The supply chain could very well end up being one aspect that is forever changed.More
Coffee with Diver webinar series 1
We are delighted that our first series of 8 webinars was a great success and was very well attended! We worked in a collaborative effort with Dimensional Insight and European partners like ourselves at Diver BI Group to bring you some interesting Diver-related subjects. All the videos are now available to view below – if you missed any or simply want to refresh on the information shown. There will be a new series in the Autumn of 2020 so watch this space!More
5 Takeaways from the 2020 Wisdom of Crowds Report
The 2020 Wisdom of Crowds Business Intelligence Market Study is out, which provides an annual look at key trends in business intelligence (BI) and provides user scores on 27 vendors using Dresner Advisory Services’ 33-criteria vendor performance management system. For the 11th straight year, Dimensional Insight performed very well in the survey, improving upon its results from last year and earning a perfect recommend score. The report had several other interesting insights about the state of business intelligence. Here are the most important takeaways.More
How the Transport Sector is Responding to COVID-19
There are certain products that have seen an increase in demand in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. Canned goods, for example, have been flying off store shelves, meaning that the companies that produce the cans for those goods have been ramping up production. Just as important as the places producing the cans are the trucks getting them from the plants to the food companies, and then from there to the grocery stores to be sold. Here’s a look at some of the adjustments the transportation industry has had to make in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.More
Practical Analysis: The Next Chapter
The “Practical Analysis” blog series is dedicated to answering the questions: “So what is analysis anyway?” and “How can I apply it in my world?” The first installments focused on the fundamentals from which modern computer-aided analysis and decision support have evolved. They featured topics like visualization, exploratory data analysis, and statistical process control. In the next posts, we’ll explore the emergence of what we now know as “data science” from those beginnings. Let’s examine.More
How Supply Chains Are Adjusting in the Midst of the COVID-19 Pandemic
The post here from John Sucich reflects the situation from the perspective of the USA, with some different regulatory bodies and lockdown rules. However it’s still interesting for us in Europe: the supply chain is truly global and therefore it will have knock-on impacts for all of us, and maybe some lessons to learn from what is happening across the pond.More