The phenomenal growth of data technology in recent years has led to the rise of the citizen data scientists (CDS). Developments in augmented analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) automation have now made it possible for ordinary business employees to conduct advanced analytics or business intelligence (BI) which would have required expert knowledge even some years […]
The Move to Public Cloud and an Intelligent Data Strategy
Click to learn more about author Joe Gaska. It has taken a global pandemic for organizations to finally realize that the old way of doing business – and the legacy technologies and processes that came with it – are no longer going to cut it. This is especially true when it comes to applications. As […]
The Future of Augmented Analytics: Adding the “Why” into Your Business Reports
Click to learn more about author Neerav Parekh. Data is the new oil, and unlike oil, we are never going to run out of data. With more and more data being produced each minute, businesses have massive, complex datasets that are difficult to deal with. Digging deeper into the data to uncover valuable insights is […]
Four Ways Embedded BI Brings Productivity into Focus
Click to learn more about author Daniel Jebaraj. The purpose of any enterprise software application is to help businesses be more productive. And given the ever-growing number of applications of every stripe across every industry, you want the applications that you develop and sell to maximize the productivity of your customers. That’s the way to […]
Fundamentals of AIaaS and AIPaas (AI-as-a-Service and AI Platforms-as-a-Service)
There are many factors that have started making businesses restless and eager to dive into the newest intelligent technologies for their Data Management practices. The business operators have sighed with relief knowing that they no longer have to engage dedicated talents for advanced model development or cloud infrastructure planning. The idea of “managed (hosted) Data […]
Data Science vs. Business Intelligence
The growth of Data Science in today’s modern data-driven world had to happen when it did. If one really takes a careful look at the growth of data analysis over the years, without Data Science, traditional (descriptive) Business Intelligence (BI) would have remained primarily a static performance reporter within current business operations. With the rising […]
Metadata Management and Analytics: What is the Intersection?
Metadata Management implies a set of activities, which administer data for better usage and outcomes. Thus, this practice involves establishing stringent roles, responsibilities, policies, and processes to ensure that data-driven information is available, accessible, sharable, and maintainable across an organization for the best analysis and application of such information in daily business. In that sense, Metadata […]
How to Avoid the Not So Mythical $50,000 Query in the Cloud
Click to learn more about author Chris Lynch. So, you’ve made the decision to go all-in on the cloud. (BTW, I don’t blame you — as a CEO, I’ve made the same choice myself, both for the company I run and the companies that I invest in.) Now your attention needs to focus on how […]
Embedded BI: A Simple, Seamless, Secure Solution
Click to learn more about author Daniel Jebaraj. Business intelligence (BI) today is experiencing a great divide. On one side are standalone applications designed solely for business analytics, such as Tableau or Power BI. End-users bring their data — which may come from many different sources — to the standalone application to perform analyses and […]
What Is a Data Mart?
A data mart is a subset of a data warehouse designed to service a specific business line or purpose. Data warehousing pioneer Ralph Kimball conceived of data marts to “begin with the most important business aspects or departments.” This bottom-up dimensional approach creates a user-friendly, flexible data scheme that delivers reports rapidly, without having to […]