by Lindsey Berke Technology is ever-changing, and with every new decade it accelerates at a pace that is often difficult for us humans to keep up with. We now live in a world in which we rely heavily on technology on a daily basis, regardless of which field we belong to. However, few industries have […]
Countdown to Christmas Using an Advent Calendar Page
This year I’ve come up with a new Christmas dashboard that uses the idea of an Advent Calendar to make the Christmas Countdown of reporting a bit more fun! It’s a way of offering your users a new insight every day, or just using the the daily buttons to show the same reports with the latest daily data – it’s up to you how much time and ingenuity you invest in this novelty dashboard.More
New Balance Case Study
The latest Case Study coming from Dimensional Insight paradoxically focuses on one of their oldest customers. We love how it epitomises the way that Diver can start off in a fairly small project by solving a key pain point.More
Trust Changes Outcomes
Children’s hospitals face unique challenges – how can data trust and analytics help address those challenges and promote better decision-making that improves the care of our littlest patients? More
Key Takeaways from 14th Diver Conference
Last week we welcomed around 100 attendees to DBI’s 14th Diver Conference in Dun Laoghaire, to help us celebrate 25 years of Diver in Ireland. Bob Corr, DBI’s MD reminded us about various inventions that didn’t exist in 2004, which made us realise how far we had come, and also feel a little old! That is apart from our newest recruits who were not even born then! More
Agenda for DBI Diver Conference 2019
We are delighted to publish the agenda for the Dynamic Business Informatics’ 14th Diver Conference on Wednesday 2nd October 2019 at the Royal Marine Hotel, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. We look forward to welcoming Fred Powers, CEO of Dimensional Insight and his colleague James Clark, Technical Director from the US, and a new addition since our last update, Shaun Foaden , MD of Dimensional Insight in the Netherlands, along with speakers from Connolly’s RED MILLS and Vision IT from Denmark.More
3 Ways Analytics Can Make Higher Ed More Efficient
Here are some specific ways analytics can make an institution of higher education more efficient, and how sometimes efficiency can mean thinking outside the box…or outside the mailbox, as the case may be.More
Experimenting with Nationwide Higher Ed Analytics
The United Kingdom has spent the past year using a national learning analytics service. Institutions in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland pool their resources and have opportunities to learn together about how to best use learning analytics. Here’s what collaboration around learning analytics through a diverse group of colleges looks like.More
How to KonMari Your Data
As time goes by, we find ourselves exhibiting three behaviors: collecting, letting go, and welcoming change. It’s easy to become a collector and tuck away objects without realizing the inevitable cluttered chaos that will slowly emerge into our lives. We do it at home with knick-knacks that we stuff in our kitchen drawers, and we also do it at work with data that collects and never gets used. Whatever it is that you’re collecting, at some point you recognize that there is simply too much of it and it’s finally time to part ways.More
Whistl switches to new data warehouse by Dimensional Insight
We love this case study from our colleagues at Dimensional Insight in the Netherlands. It explains how a postal company, Whistl UK Ltd, processing 75 million items a week, turned to Dimensional Insight to help them reduce costs and gain deeper insights into their vast amounts of data.More
How Artificial Intelligence Is Being Used in Higher Education
Colleges and universities are using data in ever-growing ways. They analyze data in order to figure out which programs are doing well or whether new programs need to be added. They then examine the data to identify past patterns that might help predict what will happen next. And the data is increasingly being put to work in the field of artificial intelligence.More
5 Takeaways from the 2019 Wisdom of Crowds BI Market Study
The annual Wisdom of Crowds® Business Intelligence Market Study by Dresner Advisory Services is out, and, as always, it is chock full of information on the status of business intelligence today. Curious about the state of data, how successful organizations are with business intelligence, and how different vendors are rated by users? Let’s examine the top takeaways from the report.More