In my company we use SQL Server Reporting Services extensively for operational reporting and so far, it has been well received As part of my job I also conduct trainings and workshops evangelizing the company’s BI offerings to our business users globally. There is one question that is being asked fairly often – Why did we chose [...]
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6 Key Factors that make Excel Unique and Provide users with Digital Data Power
Let’s get it straight, Excel is the most versatile and widely used software applications of all time, used by a broad spectrum of people – from novices keeping track of their groceries spend to multi-billion dollar international corporations forecasting profits and losses. For a large number of companies of various sizes across many industries, Excel [...]
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Five Pillars for Creating a Business Intelligence Culture in an Organization
Being a consultant has been both a very rewarding and a painful experience. Rewarding because I saw my clients happy faces after successful projects and painful because I never really became part of any team, let alone becoming a part of the organization. The positive side of all this experience is that I saw both [...]
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Agile Data Modeling is collaborative and evolutionary
Agile data modelling is an extensive topic and there have been many books written on the subject. Scott Ambler, an expert on agile database techniques (www.agiledata.org) defines agile data modelling as follows: “Data modelling is the act of exploring data oriented structures. Evolutionary data modelling is data modelling performed in an iterative and incremental manner. [...]
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The challenges that the Next Generation Dashboards must overcome
This afternoon I attended a lecture at Copenhagen Business School on Data Visualization by Stephen Few, a leading authority on the subject. It was an inspiring lecture where Stephen emphasized that by following some basic principles and a basic understanding of a human brain’s capacity of absorbing the information we can create compelling data visualizations which [...]
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Impactful BI and Analytics Strategy – following some best practices might be helpful as TECHNOLOGY IS ONLY PART OF THE STORY
I have been in the technology and BI industry for a good number of years and one thing I can say with certainty that in today’s volatile times, experience or intuition cannot be relied on making effective decisions. There is an increasing demand to respond faster more than ever with insights into ongoing organizational events [...]
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Operational Intelligence versus Operational Business Intelligence
The terms Operational Intelligence (OI) and Operational Business Intelligence (OBI) are often used interchangeably in the world of Business Intelligence and Decision Making. Undoubtedly, they are closely related and have the same end goal – to provide the end user the ability to make “BETTER, SMARTER and INFORMED DECISIONS that MAXIMIZE BUSINESS IMPACT” but apparently [...]
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The PERVASIVE nature of Business Intelligence and why should you care?
I am in a SmartArt mood today so there won’t much text in this blog piece. For the sake of language let’s see what the word PERVASIVE means. According to Merriam Webster PERSVASIVE means – existing in or spreading through every part of something. In other words, something which is everywhere. Before we start making [...]
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Remote Attendee’s Reflections – #SQLPASS 2012 #SUMMIT2012 – Day 2 Keynote by Quentin Clark (Microsoft Corporate Vice President – SQL Server)
It’s late but I am glad that it is still happening in 2012. During the holiday break I have got some time to sit and catch up on my blog, facebook and twitter space. So without much further ado here are my impressions of the Day 2 keynote from SQLPASS 2012 earlier this year. PASS [...]
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Remote Attendee’s Reflections – #SQLPASS 2012 #SUMMIT2012 – Day 1 Keynote by Ted Kummert (Microsoft Corporate Vice President of the Data Platform Group) and Bill Graziano (PASS President)
A short while ago I attended the live keynote presented by Ted Kummert and Bill Graziano. It’s always a great experience to watch these events online. Although this year PASS has extended the experience by introducing PASS TV for us online viewers. With more than 5000+ delegates across 57 countries, this is by far the [...]
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