Click to learn more about author Maurice Lacroix. In an industry as competitive as eCommerce retail, the ability to turn data into actionable insights presents the opportunity to make business decisions that drive more revenue and control costs. Collecting and then analyzing retail data like customer visits, logistic fulfillment, pricing, and customer satisfaction presents a […]
Serverless Computing Use Cases
The uniqueness of serverless computing is its ability to survive without the presence of physical machines and systems software. In the serverless computing world, the client subscribes to a set of services including special “APIs and web services” that software developers can use to quickly build useful and scalable architectures for on-demand computing services. Serverless […]
What Is Self-Service Analytics?
Self-service analytics describes the use of technology by subject-matter experts to get relevant information without requiring computer coding or substantial information technology support. The purpose of self-service analytics gives business users and stakeholders the capacity to perform day-to-day tasks without “getting involved in a more critical data process.” Characteristics of self-service analytics include the abilities […]
Case Study: Cornell University Automates Data Warehouse Infrastructure
Cornell University is a privately endowed research university founded in 1865. Ranked in the top one percent of universities in the world, Cornell is made up of 14 colleges and schools serving roughly 22,000 students. Jeff Christen, data warehousing manager at Cornell University and adjunct faculty in Information Science, and Chris Stewart, VP and general […]
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 […]
Guided Visualization and Guided Exploration
Click to learn more about co-author Scott Fincher. Click to learn more about co-author Paolo Tamagnini. Click to learn more about co-author Maarit Widmann. No matter if we are experienced data scientists or business analysts, one of our daily routines is the easy and smooth extraction of the relevant information from our data regardless of […]
Expand Business Intelligence Beyond the Boardroom
Click to learn more about author Daniel Jebaraj. For decades, business intelligence (BI) has been limited to power users and senior decision-makers. Business analysts have prepared dashboards and reports and delivered them to the C-suite for high-level strategic discussions. Outside of that rarified atmosphere, business has been conducted without access to real-time data and BI. […]
How to Leverage Big Data for Business Intelligence
Click to learn more about author Errin O’Connor. If you have heard about Moore’s law, then you know that in the span of two years, the computer’s capacity increases in terms of memory storage and speed by a factor of two, leading to exponential growth in data generated by those devices. Better devices will produce […]
Governed Self-Service Analytics, People, and Processes
Click to learn more about author Aditi Raiter. Self-service BI is lucrative but demands an eye on governance and security. In this article, I will stress the behaviors and strategies needed around managing self-serve BI/reporting tools. Self-service analytics rotates around business users having access to data preparation and dashboard building tools. There are many challenges […]
What Is a Data Analyst?
Data analysts help businesses make better, more informed decisions by not only collecting and investigating data, but also translating the relevant information into useful observations for their customers, which can include technical staff, business teams, or leadership. In many organizations, data analyst and data scientist roles share similarities, but data analysts focus on speedily interpreting […]