Pat Passett

Using Data To Align Your Sales and Supply Chain Teams
Ensuring that your sales and supply chain teams are in sync is one way that you can enhance the customer experience. However,…

The Value of Business Intelligence and Transparency
One of the biggest benefits that analytics can have on an organization is the ability to empower employees across the business. That’s…

Using “Show and Tell” to Drive Business Intelligence Adoption
In the 30 years that my company has been in business, no challenge for IT and Business Intelligence (BI) professionals has been…

Proven Way To Increase User Adoption of Business Information
All BI managers want their users to adopt and benefit from their BI tools; but most companies today still have a long…

Operational Analytics: The Benefits Are BIG For Manufacturers
Recent benchmark surveys of C-level executives at manufacturing businesses indicate that the focus of business analytics is shifting from customer insights to…

Using Dashboards to Drive Operational Performance Improvements
Operational dashboards are used to monitor all aspects of the business from an operational perspective. These types of dashboards visualize data such…

Data Quality in BI: It’s More Than Putting Lipstick on a Pig!
Data quality is one of the biggest challenges that enterprises face when it comes to business intelligence. If the data isn’t accurate,…

Self-Service BI May NOT Be What You Think
One of our sales reps recently asked the IT director of a mid-market manufacturing company if he’s considered self-service BI so his users…

Data Visualization Brings Business Intelligence to Life
While business intelligence tries to make sense of all the data that’s collected each and every day by organizations of all types,…

Strategies to Effectively Use Dashboards
The way that companies use dashboards varies greatly from business to business. While some may see dashboards as an effective way to…