Business Intelligence and Data Analytics Blog
Information and Discussions on Business Intelligence, Data Analysis, and Management featuring: Strategies, Best Practices, PARIS Product Tips and News
The Long-Standing False Promise of Business Intelligence
Business Intelligence solutions have been a part of the software landscape for approximately 20 years. These solutions promised to transform business with better decision and greater profitability. Unfortunately, getting the most out of typically large and...
But, Does it Export to Excel?
A consulting colleague and I were discussing the failure of a software that advertises its strengths in Visual Analytics. He said a customer that had bought one such product had effectively wasted $50,000. His customer ultimately had a question about the visual...
Alternatives to the Bar Graph and When to Use Them
Who is tired of bar graphs? Everyone! They are so common, it is as if there weren't other options for displaying business data. The fact remains, people choose bar graphs because they are safe and can display a wide range of data sets in a useful way. With...
6 Reasons PARIS Products are for You
PARIS products are right for you if: You tried a Big Name solution… and you still have the original problems you were trying to address. You believe that it is time to evolve the way reporting and budgeting gets done–without throwing away what you know you can...
Collecting and Analyzing Data in Sports is Here to Stay
Millions of dollars and the hopes and dreams of sports fans worldwide now more than ever depend on Big Data. Collecting data, crunching numbers and generating detailed reports is now a very big part of every sports franchise. No longer does all the action take place on the field, track, pitch or court.
Problems and Solutions in the Business Intelligence Market
The Business Intelligence market, as we see it, is the following: Problems: Disconnected Data and Applications, Repeated Manual Tasks, Slow Processes Most companies have significant problems integrating data between end-user tools such as Excel, Access,...
How to Automate Reports and Perform Analytics in Excel – the PowerExcel way!
Crunching numbers, generating reports, consolidating data across departments—these are always very lengthy and cumbersome when done manually. To make matters worse, reports that take so lo-o-o-o-ng to complete of course turn out to have outdated information …and so, managers are faced with the issue of not having real-time data to make critical decisions.
Escaping Excel Hell Without Abandoning Excel
Due to frustrated Excel Users who constantly have to merge changes and don’t have the needed flexibility with Excel Spreadsheets, many users choose to leave Excel to avoid Excel Hell. PowerOLAP presents an Add in solution that works with Excel Spreadsheets to allow users to escape Excel Hell while still using Excel.
OLAP VS OLTP
Comparison between two Business Intelligence (BI) technologies: OLTP (Online Transaction Processing) and OLAP (Online Analytical Processing).
The Future of Data Management With Olation
The future of data management lies in the fusion of database technologies. Olation has pioneered this by joining relational and multidimensional database technologies (OLTP and OLAP) to serve as a one-stop solution for all data management needs. OLAP or Online Analytical Processing is an approach to answering multi-dimensional analytical queries swiftly.