We are delighted to share the news with our Diver BI customer base that Dimensional Insight®, the developer of Diver Platform®, which we all use as our data management, analytics, and performance management solution, yesterday announced increased performances for most measures in its 11th straight year participating in Dresner Advisory Services’ Wisdom of Crowds® Business Intelligence Market Study.More
The Data on Working from Home: Does It Improve Productivity?
For many people in the software industry, working remote is to some degree conventional and even encouraged. However, with the COVID-19 pandemic, many companies within various industries have shifted their employees to the “home office” which has quickly become the “new normal.”Many businesses have worried about the productivity of their employees working remotely. So we wanted to see what the data actually shows about the benefits or drawbacks of working from home. Let’s examine.More
Best in Klas 2020
Dimensional Insight (Diver BI) Wins Best in KLAS for 7th Time in 10 Years Excellent news for Diver BI users – the software has won No 1 position as Best in Klas yet again! We are delighted at this recognition for the software, the people that design Diver BI applications and their users. 2020 Best […]
Celebration Gift for Fred Powers and Stan Zanarotti
As we celebrated with Dimensional Insight this year on the 30th anniversary of the company’s inception – some of us attended the anniversary meal at the Top of the Hub in Boston at the DIUC earlier in the year, and others recently met with Fred Powers at Dynamic Business Informatics’ own 25th anniversary of Diver in Ireland conference – Bob Corr and John Spillane of DBI decided to do something special to commemorate the event.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
DI Celebrates 30 Years of Diver BI
This week Dimensional Insight are hosting a very special user conference in Boston. It marks the 30th anniversary of the date that Fred Powers and Stan Zanarotti got together to co-found the company that developed Diver BI software. It wasn’t always called Diver, but essentially it was the beginnings of a technology that started them out on their 30 journey towards the current version 7 of the Diver Platform that we are using today.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
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
The Human Side of Data Integration
The process of implementing a data analytics solution into an organization can be time-consuming and costly. Once an analytics platform is in place, employees must learn to use the technology. However, it seems the largest stumbling block in the data integration process is not so easily defined. A surprising development arose from the 2019 Big Data and AI Executive Survey conducted by NewVantage Partners. While many organizations are increasing their investments in analytics, there are many stumbling blocks. And the biggest challenge to analytics success: people.More
DIUC19 Dimensional Insight User Conference
Here is your chance to join the key staff from Dimensional Insight between Aug 5-8 at their User Conference (DIUC19) as they celebrate DI’s 30th anniversary!
This event is all about you—our loyal customers—who have shown us continuous support throughout the years, making this anniversary possible.
See the breakdown of all the sessions, which include a myriad of exciting new features; details of training for Diver 7.1 Workbench, Diveport, Measure Factory and a ProDiver facelift; and information about the venue and local attractions.More