When choosing data tools, there's no replacement for getting hands-on. But if you've ever found yourself taking out a trial, logging in, and thinking "Well, this seems ...

Data Stack

How to Run a Data Tool Bake-Off

By Anders Schneiderman   |   March 8, 2021

If you're a CEO or in leadership, you're often going to be faced with the question of what to do when your company’s data needs outstrip what your IT department, ...

Being Data-Driven

When to Hire a Data Consultant vs. Building Out Your Data Team

By Anders Schneiderman   |   March 2, 2021

You've been thinking for a while that it's time to level up your data solution. You could keep muddling by. But you're spending too much time grinding through individual ...

Data Warehousing

Data Warehouse Selection Criteria: How To Choose the Right Storage

By Anders Schneiderman   |   February 22, 2021

You know the janky data solution your startup currently has in place just isn't cutting it. But when you think about building what you need, you get a pit in your ...

Being Data-Driven

How to Create a Data MVP for Your Startup

By Anders Schneiderman   |   February 16, 2021

You want to get more out of your Salesforce data—and who doesn't? So it’s time to boot up your favorite BI tool, hook it up to Salesforce, and rock out. That's a fine ...

Data Management

Why You Absolutely Shouldn't Connect Salesforce Straight to a BI Tool

By Anders Schneiderman   |   February 9, 2021

You're building a new data solution for your business, and you need an ELT tool to make storing and analyzing data more manageable. You've read a ton of articles and ...

ETL/ELT

How To Choose An ELT Tool: 6 Key Considerations

By Anders Schneiderman   |   February 2, 2021

Maybe you're a business analyst who's sick of not being able to level up your Power BI reports. Or maybe your New Year's resolution is that this is the year you'll ...

Data Analysis

How To Nail Your New Year's Resolution To Actually Learn SQL This Time

By Anders Schneiderman   |   January 21, 2021

There's no cookie-cutter way to choose metrics that will work for all startups. In fact, what the history shows us is that everybody who's tried to come up with a better ...

Being Data-Driven

How to Coach Your Startup to Choose Better Metrics

By Anders Schneiderman   |   December 21, 2020

As an analyst, you probably spend a lot of your time creating dashboards and other reports to help your teams and Top Brass track metrics. And you probably spend at ...

Being Data-Driven

KPIs, OKRs, OMTM: The History of Modern Metrics & Why It Matters for Analysts

By Anders Schneiderman   |   December 17, 2020

Recently, Panoply held a webinar with Nathan Patrick Taylor, the CIO of the Symphony Post Acute Network. The focus of the webinar was on what Nathan calls the ...

Data Warehousing

Webinar Recap: The Scalability Paradox with Nathan Patrick Taylor

By Anders Schneiderman   |   December 14, 2020

You know the drill: Sometime in mid-December, a tsunami of planning will crash into your company as teams frantically scramble to figure out their initiatives and KPIs ...

Being Data-Driven

How to Use Dashboards to Guide Your Startup's 2021 Planning

By Anders Schneiderman   |   December 10, 2020

You nailed your proof of concept project. Your initial group of users are happy, and they’re getting comfortable mining the first batch of data for insights that may ...

Best Practices

Deepening Your Approach to Data

By Anders Schneiderman   |   November 17, 2020

Until recently, data warehouses were largely the domain of big business. With a data warehouse, you could consolidate and analyze vast amounts of information, deriving ...

Data Warehousing

Understanding Data Warehouse-as-a-Service Benefits Today and Tomorrow

By Anders Schneiderman   |   November 17, 2020

Trying to transform your business into a data-driven powerhouse can feel overwhelming. Even if you've got amazing self-service tools, helping your team become ...

Best Practices

Why and How to Assemble Data-Loving Allies

By Anders Schneiderman   |   October 21, 2020

In an ideal world, when you create an amazing plan to build a world-class data stack, your coworkers' minds would be blown, your company's CEO would thank you for your ...

Best Practices

How to Get High-Level Buy-In for Your Data Warehouse Project

By Anders Schneiderman   |   October 6, 2020

The first iteration of your shiny new data warehouse is up and running, and folks are loving it. For example, Marketing is thrilled at how easy it is to pull up the data ...

Best Practices

What Is a Single Source of Truth (SSOT) and Why Do You Need One?

By Anders Schneiderman   |   September 22, 2020

You've spent a bunch of time figuring out the best data stack for your company. It was hard work, and occasionally it was frustrating, but mostly it was fun.

Data Stack

How to Propose a Data Stack

By Anders Schneiderman   |   September 3, 2020

There’s nothing more aggravating for a data analyst than sweating over a great analysis or dashboard only to have it go unused.

Best Practices

Why Data Analysts Should Adopt a Product Mindset

By Anders Schneiderman   |   August 18, 2020

Every week, analysts around the globe are working hard to create data warehouses.

Best Practices

Analyzing Business Needs: The First Step in Your Data Warehouse Project

By Anders Schneiderman   |   July 27, 2020

Some people think you only need a data warehouse if you have huge amounts of data. That used to be true. It's not anymore. These days, any business that uses Salesforce, ...

Data Warehousing

5 Reasons You Need a Data Warehouse

By Anders Schneiderman   |   July 21, 2020

You need a data warehouse, but a data warehouse is worth nothing if it doesn’t contain - data! The first step to start seeing benefits from your data warehouse is to ...

Data Warehousing

Views: The Key to a Successful ELT Data Warehouse

By Anders Schneiderman   |   July 14, 2020

Salesforce is a powerful tool for managing your sales processes. But if you're serious about using your business data to drive your organization, at some point you're ...

Data Warehousing

How to Build a Data Warehouse for Salesforce without Breaking the Bank

By Anders Schneiderman   |   May 5, 2020