With data flowing in from all directions, how are businesses to make sense of all of this information, let alone make meaningful decisions? This is where a having the ...

Analytics Leadership

How To Pick The Right BI Tool For Your Business

When defining your data warehouse strategy—or moving from on-premise to cloud—you’ve got lots of options. But your data warehouse is only as good as the strategy you use ...

Analytics Leadership

10 Questions To Help Define A Successful Data Warehouse Strategy

Both business and tech analysts agree that a capacity for advanced analytics is becoming mission-critical to the basic viability for all companies. While some believe ...

Analytics Leadership

Becoming An Analytics Driven Organization: Challenge Accepted

Build vs. Buy—tale as old as time, song as old as…"I need that analysis yesterday!"

Analytics Leadership

Build Vs. Buy Analysis: How Much Will That Cloud Data Warehouse Cost?

As an analyst who deals with data from many data sources daily, you might find yourself as the go-to source for information about business intelligence in your office. ...

Analytics Leadership

9 Things Your Boss Wants To Know About Data Warehousing

For the last couple of decades ETL (extract, transform, load) has been the traditional approach for data warehousing and analytics. The ELT (extract, load, transform) ...

ETL

ETL Vs ELT: The Difference Is In The How

As your organization moves its data into the cloud, you face the challenge of balancing productivity and efficiency gains with tremendous compliance and security ...

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Cloud Security Best Practices

If you ask a group of big data analysts what are some of the top professional challenges they face, you can easily imagine which challenges are consistently shortlisted. ...

Analytics Leadership

How To Get People To Share Data

Are you considering a career as a BI Architect? You have made an excellent choice. Business Intelligence Architects are some of the leading minds in business and ...

BI And Data Visualization

Business Intelligence Architect: Defining The Role

Long before there was big data, there were computing solutions designed to store, organize, and analyze data. But just like the job of a big data architect, it's both ...

Analytics Leadership

Selecting A Big Data Solution: Top 10 Questions To Ask

In today’s fast-paced competitive market, there are critical advantages to utilizing infrastructure-as-a-service, especially for businesses concerned about fast-tracking ...

Analytics Leadership

The Rise Of Infrastructure As A Service (IaaS)

I loved this line from an article I recently stumbled upon:  “Choosing between the different types of data warehouse platforms can be simplified once you know which ...

Data Warehousing

Which Type Of Data Warehouse Is Right For You?

We often come across new products aiming to help us with our lives or improve our productivity. It’s in our best interests to find the best products that will minimize ...

Analytics Leadership

Data Tools: How To Ace Product Evaluation

Businesses need to deliver insights fast if not immediately. If this were not true, we would not be writing this post, you wouldn’t be reading it and over all, big data ...

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Build KPIs Not One Time Reports