The Challenges of MongoDB Analytics (or any other NoSQL analytics) with Tableau First off, we are not here to bash Tableau. Tableau is an excellent analytics tool for structured relational data. Our point here is that data has moved beyond well-understood structured data and now includes semi-structured and unstructured data stored in newer NoSQL databases, …
Tableau and MongoDB Analytics: Why It’s a Bad Marriage Read More »
We had a chance to sit down with our friends at Boku recently and talk about how they are using Knowi to provide business analytics across all their teams, including product, accounts, and business development, and have recently extended their analytics as value-added product offerings to their partners and customers. If you are not familiar …
How Boku Successfully Transitioned to a Data-Driven Enterprise Using Knowi Read More »
Data Services is the Answer! Yes, but… In our last post, we talked about using a data warehouse strategy as one of the ways to break down data silos across multiple departments and systems. Building a data warehouse is a traditional way to tackle the data silo problem. However, successful projects take serious organizational commitment …
Will Cockroaches and Data Silos Be the Only Things Left? Part II Read More »
The journey to modern data has been fast and furious. Within a just a few decades, we have gone from retrospective analytics on operational data located within your four walls to prescriptive analytics using real-time multi-sourced data and everything in between. While data, data storage, and data processing technologies have advanced, I would argue that …
7 Requirements to Deliver Business-Driven Analytics in the Modern Data Age Read More »
PDF Version Choosing the right visualization to tell your story is important, as the wrong visualization can cause confusion and distract your audience. We walk you through dozens of visualization types and how to best use them to get your point across. We all have our go to charts for visualizing data but if you …
Great Storytelling Starts with Using the Right Data Visualization Read More »
Originally posted on medium.com Demands of the Digital Enterprise Force Rapid Innovation Towards Augmented Analytics Before we dive in, let me overlay this discussion with the main business trend that is behind some of these technology trends. Digital Transformation. “Digital transformation marks a radical rethinking of how an organization uses technology, people and processes to …
How Three 2019 Analytics Trends Change the Status Quo Read More »
Becoming data-driven company-wide, where data is integrated into the decision-making process all levels of the organization because employees, partners, and customers can access the right data at the right time, is often the ultimate goal when implementing an analytics solution. There are dozens of BI tools, from Tableau to Qlik to more modern tools like …
4 Reasons Why Your BI Tool Is Preventing You from Becoming Data-Driven Read More »
Time to Rethink Business Analytics Architectures I said to a friend not too long ago that I’m going to do a new Business Intelligence startup. His response was, “Just what the world needs, another BI solution.” After telling him to stop being a nitwit, I realized that I would have to answer this question: Why …
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Data Silos is one of the biggest challenges organizations face today. In this article, we discuss about some options of eliminating these data silos.
Recently, we held a webinar with our friends at Ocean9 focused on-demand, self-serve analytics on large scale datasets. We needed a large dataset for our demo, for which we turned to New York City Taxi data, nicely put together on github by toddwschneider. Plus, it was opportune time for me as I’m headed to New …
