by jackguarneri | May 3, 2023 | General BI and Data Management
Where’s the Data? There’s an amusing moment in The Consultant, Prime Video’s dark contemporary workplace comedy, when a young staff person asks a slightly older colleague, “Do we even have a server room?” Her colleague takes a moment to answer: “I don’t think...
by jackguarneri | Mar 6, 2023 | General BI and Data Management
The business of fashion requires the fastest, most responsive Business Intelligence possible. Fashion businesses must be prepared to unexpectedly, and sometimes drastically, change purchasing, staffing, operations, and other strategies. Theirs is an industry...
by jackguarneri | Jan 24, 2023 | Budgeting, Finance and Banking, General BI and Data Management
Not all firms budget, but nearly all that do use Excel. This is true for firms of all sizes, across all industries, and around the world. Among those firms that do budget, even staff who have relatively few numbers to contribute—in contrast to Finance professionals...
by jackguarneri | Sep 21, 2022 | Business Analytics, Business Intelligence (BI), Data Analysis, Data Management, Finance and Banking, General BI and Data Management, Industry Focus, PowerExcel, Software
Moving from the Messy Middle to Digital Finance Transformation While not a generally accepted best practice, it is nearly universally true that Finance (and many other) professionals do a great amount of work in Microsoft Excel and then move data to a Business...
by jackguarneri | Sep 13, 2016 | General BI and Data Management
Olation® and Microsoft SQL Server, how do they work together? In this article, we’ll dig a little deeper into the details of this loving relationship. Olation is a software that lives alongside SQL Server. One of the most important technological facts about...
