You want to take advantage of the much-touted benefits of business intelligence software, but you have a problem—you don’t know where to start. You still have so many questions. How much do your employees know about data?... Continue Reading
What are data stories? They’re the context behind statistics and data. If data tells you what happened, data stories tell you why it happened. Why do data stories matter to your business? Because if data tells you... Continue Reading
If you’ve read anything about business intelligence software, you’ve probably heard the same story roughly a million times. It goes like this: business intelligence solutions used to be for larger enterprises, but now they’re for small businesses,... Continue Reading
So you’ve narrowed the business intelligence software vendors you’re considering down to a shortlist. You know what your business needs out of the software, and you have a good idea of where to get it. This is... Continue Reading
The standard marketing-speak surrounding business intelligence software goes something like this: business intelligence used to be only for large enterprises, but now it’s for all businesses! Like much marketing speak, it’s just true enough to squeak by.... Continue Reading
Big data’s big in more than one way. First, there’s an ungodly amount of it. Second, figuring out how to get insights out of all that data is a lucrative career field. There’s a reason why the business intelligence software market... Continue Reading
A lot of entrepreneurs are ensnared by data, rather than enlightened by it. That prevents them from making the data useful. Raw data is completely useless until it can be transformed into information that is used to... Continue Reading
Location intelligence is a new hot topic in the business intelligence software community. The location analytics market is estimated to be worth 16.34 billion dollars by 2021. For those who can incorporate it into their business intelligence... Continue Reading
Many organizations believe they have a data-driven culture because they generate lots of reports, or have dashboards throughout their organization. Unfortunately, it’s not that simple. A data-driven culture is when an organization’s progress is measured using data rather... Continue Reading
On a recent call to my financial adviser at Fidelity, I was given an automated message prior to my call connecting. “Your call may be recorded for training purposes.” That’s normal. The second part of the message was... Continue Reading
