To view the on-demand recording from this presentation, click HERE>> This webinar is sponsored by: About the Webinar Organizations understand the value in leveraging their data for improved BI, analytics, and reporting. However, utilizing data effectively requires sophisticated data integration, which to many organizations sounds like a trade-off that might not be worth the effort. After […]
Case Study: Executing an Effective Data Strategy
Few tasks are more logistically and technologically daunting than providing air, land, and sea transportation for the U.S. military across the entire world. Yet that is precisely the mission of the United States Transportation Command, or USTRANSCOM. According to a Congressional Research Service report, on any given day USTRANSCOM conducts over 240 air missions, sends […]
Self-Serve Advanced Analytics Requires Culture Change
Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are often challenged to satisfy all the roles and responsibilities in the organization, and most team members wear more than one hat. That feeling of being overstretched is typical of growing businesses and, in an increasingly competitive market with businesses fighting for skilled resources, it is difficult to meet budget […]
Maturing Business Intelligence with Data Governance
Data Governance (DG) ensures that enterprise data, the most valuable business asset, is preserved and used in the most efficient and safest manner. That said, Data Governance puts immense demands on organizational policies, processes, technologies, and lastly on accountable staff to develop an executable framework, from its core architecture to implementation stages. Enterprise Data Governance […]
Why Automated Data Extraction Matters in the Digital Age
In today’s fast-paced business world, one of the best ways for a modern enterprise to optimize processes is to rethink how to manage data. Business documents contain vital information for companies, irrespective of their size and industry. As most of these business documents contain unstructured data, automated data extraction has become a go-to option for […]
Solving Three Data Problems with Data Observability
Data collection, while crucial to the overall functionality and health of a business, does not automatically lead to success. If data processes are not at peak performance and efficiency, businesses are just collecting massive stores of data for no reason. Data without insight is useless, and the energy spent collecting it, is wasted. Effective use […]
ADV Slides: Analytics ROI Best Practices
To view the on-demand recording from this presentation, click HERE>> This webinar is sponsored by: About the Webinar Analytics plays a critical role in supporting strategic business initiatives. Despite the apparent value of providing the data infrastructure for these initiatives, many executives question the economic feasibility of business intelligence and analytics. This requires information professionals to calculate […]
ADV Webinar: Analytics ROI Best Practices
To view the slides from this presentation, click HERE>> This webinar is sponsored by: About the Webinar Analytics plays a critical role in supporting strategic business initiatives. Despite the apparent value of providing the data infrastructure for these initiatives, many executives question the economic feasibility of business intelligence and analytics. This requires information professionals to calculate […]
Do You Need a Semantic Layer?
I co-founded my company to focus on the challenges of supporting a large number of data analysts working on disparate sets of data managed in a massive lake. We borrowed the term “semantic layer” from the folks at Business Objects, who originally coined it in the 1990s. The term was actually over 20 years old […]
How to Become a Data Analyst
Data analysts translate raw data into useful insights, and they are also responsible for gathering the data, organizing and analyzing it, and then presenting their findings. Data analysts are in high demand, and there aren’t enough data analysts to fill all the positions. People with the right skills can fill these positions. A degree is […]