7 Interesting and Unexpected Uses of Business Intelligence Tools
Business Intelligence tools are helping businesses streamline their activities and improve sales. But their incredible power to analyze and report on large data sets is being leveraged by many other sectors too. Full Story: Interesting Engineering
Logi Analytics Ranks #1 for Embedded Business Intelligence in The BI Survey 19
Logi Analytics achieved outstanding results in The BI Survey 19 from the Business Application Research Center (BARC). Logi achieved five top-ranking and 29 leading positions in its peer groups, including the highest vendor rating for embedded BI. Full Story: RealWire
How to leverage predictive analytics for employee retention
Crystal balls, fortune cookies and tellers, and, sadly, our own perceptions, can’t predict the future. This indecision may lead your coveted employees to ask themselves the question The Clash posed in 1981: “Should I stay or should I go?” Your company’s go-to girl(s) or guy(s) are a hot commodity, and it’s hard for them to ignore how they and their tech skills are in heavy demand. Can the lure of a competitor’s beckoning be stilled? Perhaps. Full Story: TechRepublic
Big Data and Analytics Transforming the Auditing Process
Auditing poses significant challenges related to data privacy, data governance, ethics, and integrity, particularly when data is unstructured. Big data has created a drastic impact on profits, productivity, and risk management transforming the entire auditing process. Full Story: EnterpriseTalk
Looker 7 Looks Away From Traditional Business Intelligence
Things continue looking up for data analytics provider Looker. Today it announced version 7 of its namesake platform in what is the first major release since Google announced plans to buy the startup for $2.6 billion in cash in June. Full Story: SDxCentral
How are top enterprises effectively applying IoT to their BI strategies?
The idea of applying the Internet of Things (IoT) to business intelligence (BI) is now becoming a mainstream part of corporate strategy. IoT has taken off over the past few years, and the BI industry is booming with all sorts of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software and business technologies that can optimize the use of data for insights. Full Story: Techopedia
Microsoft Ignite: Data and analytics news roundup
There was so much data and analytics news out of yesterday’s opening keynote at Microsoft’s Ignite conference in Orlando that I had three separate posts to cover it. Those posts covered Azure Synapse Analytics, SQL Server 2019’s general availability and new data protection features in Power BI. In fact, though, there were numerous other data and analytics announcements yesterday. My goal with this post is to cover them too. Full Story: ZDNet
Data preparation tools: Your analytics strategy’s secret weapon
To reap the benefits of data analytics, you first have to get data preparation right. For many organizations, this is a significant bottleneck, with up to 70 percent of their time focused on data preparation tasks, according to recent research from Gartner. Full Story: CIO
Do More for Your Online Business with IP & Domain Intelligence Monitoring
In today’s digital business world, it is a must for companies to develop an effective online strategy. Often, this strategy includes tried-and-tested means such as using business intelligence. Failure to do so could mean losing a competitive edge, missing growth opportunities, being unable to provide customer satisfaction, and lacking cost-effective processes. Full Story: Tech Times
Best business intelligence tools in 2019: Find the right BI for data visualizations
The proliferation of new technologies and digital transformation means that data can now be collected on every aspect of a business, from sales and marketing, to workflows and productivity, to hiring and HR, to overall performance and profitability. Full Story: TechRadar
