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How to Become a Data Engineer

The work of data engineers is extremely technical. They are responsible for designing and maintaining the architecture of data systems, which incorporates concepts ranging from analytic infrastructures to data warehouses. A data engineer needs to have a solid understanding of commonly used scripting languages and is expected to support the steady evolution of improved Data Quality, […]

Fundamentals of Data Virtualization

Organizations are increasingly employing innovative technology called “data virtualization” (DV) to tackle high volumes of data from varied sources. Data virtualization is widely used in enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), and sales force automation (SFA) systems to collect and aggregate multi-source data. From multi-sourced data acquisition to advanced analytics, this technology seems […]

How to Bring Workforce Data into the BI Equation

In the current economic environment, employee productivity, efficiency, and well-being have become even more critical to organizational success, mandating that leaders spend more time understanding and deriving insights from employees’ digital footprints and data. But too often, businesses make strategic decisions without factoring in workforce data. This can result in costly mistakes such as unnecessary […]

9 Benefits of Business Intelligence

Business intelligence (BI) refers to the process of collecting, analyzing, and interpreting business data to unlock business potential. In 2023, business intelligence plays a crucial role in the growth and success of global businesses, providing benefits that help them gain a competitive edge. BI tools assist business leaders in making data-driven decisions and provide them […]

How to Become a Business Intelligence Analyst

As with many buzzwords emerging from the intersection of business and technology, the phrase “business intelligence” (BI) is often misunderstood. In a nutshell, it refers to the skill and practice of extracting insights from data to realize new goals, strategies, trends, and values. A business intelligence analyst, working with a network of other knowledge workers (such […]

A Brief History of Business Intelligence

In 1865, Richard Millar Devens presented the phrase “Business Intelligence” (BI) in the “Cyclopædia of Commercial and Business Anecdotes.” He used it to describe how Sir Henry Furnese, a banker, profited from information by gathering and acting on it before his competition. More recently, in 1958, an article was written by an IBM computer scientist […]

Why Embedded BI Is the Best Option for Analytics

When a business considers the implementation of an analytics solution, it may be focused on choosing the easiest, most flexible solution to encourage its users to make analytics part of the process and to incorporate it into everyday tasks to achieve better results. When a business offers embedded BI tools with integration APIs, it provides the […]

Real-Time Analytics: Examples and Benefits

Technology behemoths like Netflix, Uber, and Meta set the standard for how application users experience data. Users expect data to be integrated into the application, making it easier to find relevant content, track deliveries, provide a spam-free internet experience, and make quick, informed operational decisions. Up until this point, the speed and scale of real-time analytics […]

Are Data Warehouses Still Relevant?

Over the past few years, enterprise data architectures have evolved significantly to accommodate the changing data requirements of modern businesses. The emergence of advanced data storage technologies, such as cloud computing, data hubs, and data lakes, makes us question the role of traditional data warehouses in modern data architecture.  Data warehouses were first introduced in the […]