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. […]
