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Weave open-source data visualization offers power, flexibility

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:59:51 GMT

When two Boston-area organizations rolled out an interactive data visualization website last month, it represented one of the largest public uses yet for the open-source project Weave - and more are on the way.

Understanding the Difference Between Performance Indicators and Key Performance Indicators

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:51:09 GMT

I was planning to write yet another article on key performance indicators because I felt Dashboard Insight needed an up-to-date reference for those who did not practice in performance management. I initially started writing the article, thinking I didn't need any reference material. I've lived through understanding, discovering, and refining measures for the last six years and I felt I could write it solely on experience.

Business intelligence on the move

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:35:17 GMT

...the traditional Business Intelligence (BI) model is undergoing rapid change with the trends of mobility, social media and consumerisation of IT making BI a more user driven, rather than a data driven process.

Dashboard Product Review: A Look at InetSoft's Style Scope From Data to Dashboard

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:44:35 GMT

In this product review I aim to provide the reader with a detailed look at using InetSoft's Style Scope to develop and design dashboards. In demonstrating how to use the product from data to dashboard I will cover the following topics: Style Scope overview, workflow, technology overview, dashboard development, and recommendations

Preparing Yourself for the Analytics Job Tsunami

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:32:03 GMT

This oncoming tsunami of positions requiring analytical skills presents a solid opportunity for business intelligence (BI) professionals. Are you ready for the vast opportunities it will bring? To be able to take advantage of an opportunity, one has to be prepared.

Customer Analytics: A New Lifeline for the Red Cross and Other Nonprofits?

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:54:04 GMT

Through a partnership with the Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative (WCAI), the Red Cross has linked up with six teams of researchers from around the country, including analytics experts from Baylor University, the University of Pittsburgh and the IBM Watson Research Center who will analyze data from the Red Cross database to develop tools for improving the organization’s outreach efforts.

Managing Big Data: Six Operational Challenges

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:12:53 GMT

When [the blog poster] first started running programs that dealt with big data — meaning both a lot of data about something or somebody and a lot of things or people to have some data about — big was actually pretty small.

11 Tips for Successful Mobile Business Intelligence

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 12:40:57 GMT

Mobile is the hottest trend going today in business intelligence. Enterprise Apps Today asked a group of business intelligence experts to share their tips on how to optimize mobile BI.

Sales Pipeline Visual Analysis Dashboard

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:34:25 GMT

The sales pipeline visual analysis dashboard is designed for marketing, sales, and executive teams to analyze leads from creation to close and to forecast revenue for the year. There are many ways the data can be looked at and the analysis requirements will change from user to user. For this example, we assume the person who is looking at the data is interesting in seeing it from a high level aggregated view.

Gartner Study on Cloud BI Adoption

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:22:38 GMT

Gartner analyst James Richardson sounds a note of caution regarding potential return on investment, however: "SaaS- and cloud-based BI is perceived as offering a quicker, potentially lower-cost and easier-to-deploy alternative, though this has yet to be proven. It's evident that, despite growing interest, the market is confused about what cloud/SaaS BI and analytics are and what they can deliver."

Delivering Mobile BI Dashboards to Any Device via XAML & HTML5

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:39:08 GMT

Learn how you can leverage ComponentArt’s XAML and HTML5 technology to deliver rich, interactive and engaging mobile dashboards to any device: Apple iPad & iPhone, Windows 8 tablets & phones, Android tablets & phones, Blackberry Playbook & phones or any Windows or Mac OS computer. The white paper covers all of the major technology options for delivering mobile BI dashboards, examines the pros and cons of each approach, and provides a detailed description for the selected approach.

Business Intelligence’s social evolution

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:49:31 GMT

In this information age, the businesses that have the best relationship with their data are the businesses most likely to succeed. And over a very short space of time, as the amount of data has grown exponentially and the ability to access information becomes more urgent, this relationship between businesses and data has shifted from being quite simple and straightforward to something potentially extremely complex. So, the companies getting business intelligence (BI) right are at a significant competitive advantage over their peers.

Self-service BI – can it really exist out-of-the-box?

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 12:09:40 GMT

Research organizations such as Gartner, Forrestor, and TDWI report that self-service business intelligence is a critical requirement for a BI project. As Research Director at Dashboard Insight, I’ve had the opportunity to speak to many different types of users. The skills, knowledge, and business needs range so much that it made me question the pursuit of self-service BI.

Feds Add Education Community To Data.gov Site

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 09:49:51 GMT

The [US] federal government continues its efforts to help users more easily locate information through its open-data repository Data.gov with a new community for government education data.

Analyzing Facebook Data with MicroStrategy’s Wisdom

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 09:03:17 GMT

I’m currently at the MicroStrategy World Conference in Miami. I’m impressed with Miami’s weather (a staggering 25 Celsius average over the last 3 days) and MicroStrategy's offering called Wisdom.

Wisdom is a free application that blew me away. It visualizes data that many marketers would kill for including age, gender, and location. The visualizations could use much improvement, but the data represented was quite interesting.