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Experts discuss best practices for business intelligence success
Teamwork is one of the most important best practices for business intelligence implementations, said speakers at the TDWI BI Executive Summit. Continue Reading
Collaboration is key to business intelligence tool implementations
Business units and IT departments aren't always on the same page, but they need to be in order to successfully implement business intelligence tools. Continue Reading
Four factors to weigh in planning an analytics big data architecture
Consultant Lyndsay Wise details four key elements to consider when planning a big data infrastructure to ensure it will support your analytics needs. Continue Reading
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No more shortcuts: Sound data quality strategy a must for BI success
In the past, companies might have gotten away with not building data quality efforts into business intelligence programs. That's less likely now. Continue Reading
BI architect has new options to meet growing data, analytics demands
Designing a business intelligence architecture that can meet the expanding needs of BI users is an exercise in finding the right combination of tools. Continue Reading
Tagged.com solves data quality problems on road to better analysis
For Tagged.com, a data quality project led the company to realize excellent data means more than having the correct information.Continue Reading
Practical approach, not dazzle, needed on mobile BI applications
To be successful, mobile business intelligence projects must provide useful capabilities, not just cool-looking apps, BI managers and analysts say.Continue Reading
Business intelligence management should mostly be about the business
The best way to manage BI projects is to involve business users in everything, from defining needs to creating reports and dashboards, analysts say.Continue Reading
Social media analytics tools offer customer insights, but care needed
While analyzing social media data can yield valuable information, consultants caution that the process is still a complex and inexact science.Continue Reading
Data quality issues still plaguing data analytics projects
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How Hadoop and open source BI software affect BI architecture
There’s been a lot of talk about Hadoop and open source BI software. Find out how the open source technologies affect business intelligence architecture and BI development.Continue Reading
Expanding your business intelligence architecture to mobile devices
Get tips on expanding a business intelligence architecture to support mobile devices and mobile BI software. Find out about the BI capabilities, strengths and weaknesses of mobile devices.Continue Reading
Data quality still a major hurdle for analytics programs
Attendees at SAS’ Analytics 2011 Conference Series said data quality is still creating some major headaches for analysts.Continue Reading
The basics of improving BI performance
Find some basic ways of improving BI performance at your company. Learn about in-memory analytics, columnar databases and how data aggregation affects BI performance.Continue Reading
Which users can benefit from BI dashboards and scorecards?
Are businesses deploying business intelligence dashboards and scorecards to workers other than managers and senior executives? Learn about high-level dashboards and who gets use out of dashboards and scorecards.Continue Reading