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You Want Data Quality, But You’re Not Using Quality Data
Teasers When did we first see data? Mid-twentieth century As a successor to the Vulcan, Spock 18,000 BC Who knows? As far back as we can go in discovered history […]
Spreading Misinformation With Terrible Dashboards
How you Spread Misinformation with Terrible Dashboards Numbers by themselves are hard to read, and even harder to draw meaningful inferences from. It’s often the case that visualizing […]
Are You Audit Ready?
Are you Audit-Ready? Authors: Ki James and John Boyer When you first read the title of this article, you probably shuddered and immediately thought of your financial audit. Those […]
Is There A Hole In Your Sox? (Compliance)
Analytics and Sarbanes-Oxley Managing SOX compliance with self-service BI tools like Qlik, Tableau and PowerBI Next year SOX will be old enough to buy beer in Texas. It was […]
You “Musk” Return Back To Work – Are You Ready?
What Employers Need to do to Welcome Their Workers Back to the Office After nearly 2 years of working from home, some things just won’t be the same. In […]
The Dream of a Single Analytics Tool is Dead!
The Dream of a Single Analytics Tool is Dead! There’s a persistent belief among business owners that an entire firm needs to operate on a single business intelligence tool, […]
Why Multiple BI Tools Matter
Why Multiple BI Tools Matter And the underlying challenges in making it work There are 20 vendors ranked in Gartner’s 2022 Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms. […]
The Benefits of Sharing a Single Roof
Cognos Analytics and Planning Analytics Under the Same Roof IBM has just announced that Cognos Analytics and Planning Analytics are now under one roof. We have one question – […]
Feral Information Systems
They’re wild and they’re rampant! I previously wrote about shadow IT here. In that article we discuss its prevalence, its danger and how to manage it. I had no […]
12 Reasons for Failure In Analytics And Business Intelligence
12 Reasons for Failure In Analytics And Business Intelligence Number 9 may surprise you In analytics and business intelligence, there are a lot of things that can go wrong. […]
Shadow IT: Balancing The Risks And Benefits Every Organization Faces
Shadow IT: Balancing the Risks and Benefits Every Organization Faces Abstract Self-service reporting is the promised land of the day. Whether it’s Tableau, Cognos Analytics, Qlik Sense, or another […]
10 Things The C-Suite Needs To Know About Analytics
10 Things the C-Suite Needs to Know about Analytics If you haven’t traveled much lately, here’s an executive summary of developments in the field of analytics that you might have […]
Motio’s Cloud Experience
What Your Company Can Learn From Motio’s Cloud Experience If your company is like Motio, you already have some data or applications in the cloud. Motio moved its first application […]
What Does Watson Do?
Abstract IBM Cognos Analytics has been tattooed with the Watson name in version 11.2.1. His full name is now IBM Cognos Analytics with Watson 11.2.1, formerly known as IBM Cognos […]
Exporting and Importing Security rules – Qlik Sense to Git
Exporting and Importing Security rules – Qlik Sense to Git This article is intended as a guide for those who are faced with the situation of figuring out who […]
Cloud Prep
Preparing To Move To The Cloud We are now in the second decade of cloud adoption. As many as 92% of businesses are using cloud computing to some degree. The […]
60-80% of Fortune 500 Companies will Adopt Amazon QuickSight by 2024
That’s a bold statement, sure, but in our analysis, QuickSight has all of the qualities to increase market penetration. QuickSight was introduced by Amazon in 2015 as an entrant in […]
5 Reasons To Consider Dynamic Query Mode
5 Reasons To Consider Dynamic Query Mode While there are multiple incentives for Cognos Analytics users to convert from Compatible Query Mode to Dynamic Query Mode, here are our […]
7 Benefits Of The Cloud
7 Benefits Of The Cloud If you’ve been living off the grid, disconnected from the urban infrastructure, you may not have heard of the cloud thing. With a connected […]
Fighting the COVID-19 Virus with Data
Disclaimer Don’t skip this paragraph. I hesitate to wade into these contentious, often political waters, but a thought came to me while I was walking my dog, Demic. I […]