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MicroStrategys Best Dashboard Contest Win an Apple TV!
Posted
13 days
ago
on Dashboard Insight
MicroStrategy is currently accepting entries for our Best Cloud Personal Dashboard Contest. Entries will be judged on creativity, clarity, usefulness, and...
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Sales Forecast Analysis
Posted
13 days
ago
on Dashboard Insight
For any Sales team manager, a high level overview of the combined performance for the entire team is important. The ability to assess revenue trends collectively across a multitude of variables such as geography, time periods, forecast types etc.,...
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How To Tackle The Big Data Challenge (Part 1)
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16 days
ago
on Dashboard Insight
Big data is a term getting bandied about a lot these days. It describes the phenomenon of information that keeps growing in organizations, thanks in part to the growth in social media. According to the InformationWeek Research: The Big Data...
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4 Cs of Big Data Process
Posted
21 days
ago
on Dashboard Insight
Nowadays, there are two topics that I'm very passionate about. The first, the fact that spring is finally here and it's time to dust off my clubs to take in my few first few rounds of golf. The second topic that Im currently passionate about is the...
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Transforming Big Data Challenges Into Opportunities
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23 days
ago
on Dashboard Insight
We create 2.5 quintillion (or 2.518) bytes of data every day, according to IBM, with 90 percent of the data in the world created in the last two years alone. What does this mean in context? Every...
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10 Steps to Effective Data Governance for SMBs
Posted
28 days
ago
on Dashboard Insight
Data Governance is an emerging business priority. In a recent survey sponsored by IBM, two-thirds of all companies are implementing or planning to implement a data governance program in the next 18 months. Seventy percent see data governance...
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Top six BI trends for 2012
Posted
29 days
ago
on Dashboard Insight
Gartners 2012 predictions for business intelligence focus on the challenges around Cloud, alignment with business metrics and a balanced organisational model between centralised and scattered. Forrester has looked toward 2012 with everything from...
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Big Data and the Coming Conceptual Model Revolution
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about 1 month
ago
on Dashboard Insight
Conceptual modeling, or semantic modeling if you like, is a rather nebulous area in data management. There seems to be a lot of agreement that it is needed, some disagreement about what it is, and little understanding of how to do...
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Why You Should Care About Data Mining
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about 1 month
ago
on Dashboard Insight
Organizations already have mountains of information, and more is coming every day from new data sources, more rapid updates and higher volume from traditional existing...
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Business Intelligence Ain't Over Until Exploratory Data Analysis Sings
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about 1 month
ago
on Dashboard Insight
Business intelligence analyst Wayne Kernochan, of Infostructure Associates, says it's a shame exploratory data analysis (EDA) doesnt get more attention from enterprises looking to increase their competitive...