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
Why do you need a Business Intelligence (BI) Solution?
With the amount of data stored by companies growing exponentially, it is no surprise that finding the right data management solution continues to show up on the priority list of Chief Information Officers (CIO). Data has to be secure and distributed efficiently for important up-to-date business decisions.
(Online) Analytical Processing, by Any Other Name?
We at PARIS Technologies have been audaciously proud proponents of OLAP for a long time. We named our initial product PowerOLAP. Released over 10 years, it is still considered by many as “the most Excel-user friendly” technology on the market. You could say that we’ve...
PowerOLAP Q&A
Folks, there is a LOT you can do with PowerOLAP. Even people who have been using it for years aren't fully aware of all the capabilities available within PowerOLAP. Perhaps you are a user of PowerOLAP but you generally access the same reports all the time. In this...
Analyzing World Cup Data using OLAP
Yes, it's Maradona, Maracana, and Multidimensionality Using PowerOLAP to Analyze World Cup Data It started with a limerick. Exactly why I decided to express in a 5-line poem the ridiculously named “hand of God” incident, when Diego Maradona punched the ball into...
2 Exciting Projects in the Works at PARIS
Here at PARIS, our skilled developers are always pounding away at new innovations. We recently released a new product, Time Manager Live, which represents much of what our team has been hard at work developing. If you haven't checked it out, it is definitely worth a...
Constructing an Optimized Project Performance Management Solution
With the World Cup over--and what a great final match it was!--Brazilians (once they get over their team's collapse) will surely refocus on the huge cost overruns and un-readiness of the building projects associated with the event. The projects you manage may not...
PARIS Technologies Launches Time Manager Live™—Timesheet and Project Manager for Microsoft Outlook® Calendars.
Doylestown, PA June 9, 2014. PARIS Technologies, a leader in business technology innovation today announced the launch of Time Manager Live™—a time, project, and resource management solution that utilizes Microsoft Outlook® for LIVE reporting and automatic timesheet...
Infographic: 2014 Business Intelligence Trends
Business Intelligence trends for 2013 included an increase in self service BI, Analytics, and enhanced BI features: from automation to powerful predictive analytics. Although voice command features in BI Applications are not yet available, Business Intelligence technologies are still evolving into more “complete” analysis and decision-making tools, that enhance business processes.We decided to present our top 2014 BI predictions in a fun infographic.
What Would You Ask Your BI Software If It Could Talk Back?
According to a report by Gartner, by 2016, 70% of leading BI vendors will have incorporated natural-language and spoken-word capabilities.The natural-language commands feature may eliminate the tedious, manual creation of reports and manipulation of data. Certainly, the ability to talk naturally to your Business Intelligence solution will be a revolution in the Business Intelligence technology industry. If you had this capability, how would you use it?
Marketing Intelligence from Customer Intelligence
When used together effectively, Marketing Intelligence and Customer Intelligence provide powerful ways to strategize, ensure customer satisfaction, and continued growth. Marketing Intelligence (MI) is a means of collecting data from external sources about markets or industries that a business is looking to penetrate into or already competes in. Customer Intelligence (CI) involves the process of gathering information on customer activity through customer data collection tools such as; Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software.