As the IT industry matures into a discipline that is arguably more complex than any other profession, those of us who have been involved in it for many years are constantly challenged both by new technological developments and, on a personal basis, by new whizz kids who seem to know it all. More
You Don’t Need Big Data to get Big Insights
Big data is the big focus of much of the current analytics press; huge volumes of unstructured or semi-structured data that can be mined to find those gems of information you didn’t know you had. Sentiment analysis and remarketing algorithms may be all well and good for Facebook and Amazon, but if you only have relatively small volumes of highly structured data, and already have reports coming out of your ERP or MRP system, what added value can you get from adding a BI layer? Like many organisations without a real analysis tool, are you currently just seeing your information without getting insights from it?More
Your Customers are Hard to Come By! How to Retain Customers, Reduce Churn Rate & Increase Sales
Sales reports do not always tell the full story. Your customers are costly to acquire and often slip away too easily. Wading through lengthy, standard sales reports is not all that enlightening when you are trying to understand why your sales are falling below the expected levels.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 2. A view of the Diver Conference 2013
Introduced by Philip Byers, The DBI 9th Annual Conference 2013 was full of new information about Diver developments, and some excellent presentations from our customers BWG Foods and Polypipe which exemplified the theme of continuity.More
Business Rules
BI software providers like to talk about the features and functions of their products. However, the real quality of your BI deployment often rests in the expertise of your BI vendor (or in-house BI specialist) and the ability to effectively translate your organization’s business rules into a BI solution.More
