Intelligent Analytics
5 Attributes Of An Effective KPI System
In my two most recent blog posts on Key Performance Indicators, I covered The Basics of KPIs and Why Non-Financial Metrics Matter…
Statistical Demand Forecasting: Some Things To Consider
While statistical demand forecasting provides a more sophisticated method of predicting future demand, it does have several prerequisites in order to produce…
Defining KPIs That Are Optimal For A Manufacturing Business
Defining effective Key Performance Indicators (or KPIs) that are optimal for a manufacturing business doesn’t have to be difficult so long as…
KPIs: The Basics & Why Non-Financial Metrics Matter
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) provide an organization with a high-level snap-shot of the health of the business through a set of agreed-upon…
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…
Today’s Reporting Challenge – Catering to Different Users in Different Ways
Today’s business user expects immediate access to their data for reporting purposes; but while some only need to view basic reports and…
How Reporting And Analytics Differ and Why They Are Both Important: Part 2
In part one of this series we took a look at how reporting and analytics differ. Now we look at why they…