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Small and Medium-Sized Businesses Need Self-Serve Advanced Analytics

If your small or medium-sized business (SMB) is looking for ways to improve forecasting, problem-solving, and market opportunities, it must embrace self-service advanced analytics that allow business users to leverage their role, their knowledge of their business function, and their collaborative initiatives to gather, analyze, and share information and improve business results.  According to Gartner, natural […]

The Semantic Layer Goes Mainstream

The semantic layer concept within the data stack is not new but is an increasingly popular topic of conversation. I predict that in 2022, we’ll see mainstream awareness of the semantic layer, especially as enterprises begin to see real-world examples of its benefits.  The fact that industry leaders are discussing the need for a semantic […]

7 Factors to Consider When Deploying a Modern Data Estate

The abilities of an organization towards capturing, storing, and analyzing data; searching, sharing, transferring, visualizing, querying, and updating data; and meeting compliance and regulations are mandatory for any sustainable organization.  Many companies have already invested in their data environment by deploying a traditional data warehouse, but data warehouses have many limitations.  For example, most data warehouses […]

What Is a Data Silo?

Data silos have often had a negative connotation. They describe isolated data islands that appear or are discovered upon finding disjointed Data Management components. These include: Systems that cannot programmatically work with other systems because of older or incompatible code Fixed data that is controlled by one department or team but is cut off from […]

What Is Business Intelligence?

Business Intelligence (BI) includes the technologies and tools used to analyze and report on different business operations. Business Intelligence uses raw data stored in varying data warehouses, data marts, data lakes, and other storage platforms, and transforms it into actionable knowledge/information assets. Such elements include dashboards, spreadsheets, data visualizations, reports, and many others. According to […]