Business Intelligence for the Manufacturing Sector
The rapid gains that have been made in Big Data and business analytics are helping to fuel a new era within the manufacturing sector. When BI is harnessed and used properly, it can allow provide you with grater insight to your supply chain. Not only will you have greater visibility from the top floor of your office, BI can also help you better understand what’s...
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Why Your Company Needs a Data Warehouse
If you’re not someone who is fully up to speed on why a data warehouse is important, we wanted to take a few paragraphs to help walk you through it. The term data warehouse gets thrown around a lot these days. It’s a hot topic within industry newsletters. You may have read it online. In some cases, you may have heard your employees and colleagues...
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WHY ANALYTICS IS HERE TO STAY
Analytics is a wave from the future. Terms like Business Intelligence and Big Data are becoming as common as “supply”, “market analysis” etc. Clearly, analytics is here to stay and you/your company should join the bandwagon- if you haven’t yet. Wikipedia defines analytics as, “The discovery, interpretation, and communication of meaningful patterns in data.” Further definitions state, “Analytics is the systematic computational analysis of data.”...
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WHAT COULD GO WRONG WHEN YOU INVEST IN BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE?
The implementation of Business Intelligence by a company is one that is exciting and difficult. It must be approached with utmost care and given the highest possible consideration. A lot can go wrong but to understand BI implementation here are the steps taken to integrate a BI system, which may vary depending on the needs of the clients, but the main parameters that are common...
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Data Storytelling
Story telling with data is how to communicate effectively with data using data visualization. In most cases, organizations recognize that being a successful, data-driven company requires skilled developers and analysts. Data is always remembered only when presented in the right way; slides, spreadsheet or graphs may not be the right way but a story is always the right way. Story Telling Entails: Understanding the importance...
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