by John Boyer | BI/Analytics
Analytics Lie The Bias of Analysis Mark Twain debatably said something like, “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and analytics.” We take for granted that analytics gives us useful, actionable insights. What we often don’t realize is how our own...
by John Boyer | BI/Analytics
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 we find humans using data. Interestingly, data even precedes written numbers. Some of the earliest...
by Ki James | BI/Analytics
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 the data in the forms of various graphics and charts is necessary to...
by Motio | Auditing, BI/Analytics
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 may be scary, but what about compliance audits? Are you prepared for a...
by John Boyer | Auditing, BI/Analytics
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 birthed out of the “Public Company Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act”,...
by John Boyer | BI/Analytics
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 response to the Coronavirus pandemic, many businesses shut the doors on their brick-and-mortar and asked...
by Ki James | BI/Analytics
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, be it Cognos Analytics, Tableau, Power BI, Qlik, or anything else. This belief has...
by John Boyer | BI/Analytics
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. Over the past 10 or 15 years we’ve watched the pendulum swing as...
by John Boyer | BI/Analytics
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 – What took them so long? There are a number of obvious benefits to integrating these...
by John Boyer | BI/Analytics
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 idea that Feral Information Systems (FIS) were a thing. Feral cats I had heard of. We actually...
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