Under the Hood with Text Analytics
There are opinions all over the map about what this state-of-the-art really is, how entity extraction is actually operating and to what extent it is semantic or statistical or a hybrid of machine...
View ArticleMobile Business Intelligence: Insights to Go
From drive-through restaurants, coffee houses, and even pharmacies, you can take virtually everything “to go.” In fact, you can even take real-time reporting to go thanks to the emergence of mobile...
View ArticleChoosing the Right Key Performance Indicators for Your Corporate Dashboard
Data visualization tools have become indispensable to many business professionals. Not only do these tools allow you to better understand massive amounts of data by presenting it in a highly visual,...
View ArticleGetting the Most out of Your Business Dashboard
Business dashboards are user-friendly components found in business intelligence software. They provide users with at-a-glance insights into specific areas of the business. Highly customizable, few...
View ArticleHow Businesses Use Business Intelligence Applications
Whether using a basic BI application or a dedicated program, businesses use business intelligence applications in a variety of ways. Below are a few of the more common uses. To gain a deeper...
View ArticleThree Business Intelligence Software Features You Can’t Live Without
Business intelligence software comes in many flavors with numerous features and capabilities. While all promise to provide you with intelligent insights into your business’s key performance indicators,...
View ArticleThe Power of Real-Time Reporting
Business intelligence reporting falls into several categories including: historic reporting, ad hoc reporting, and real-time reporting. Each has their purpose and should be included in any full-blown...
View ArticleIndustry Deep Dive: Executive Dashboards in Medicine
Today I want to do an industry deep dive and talk about the need for executive dashboards in the field of medicine. One of the huge deficiencies that I see in medicine in general and in radiology in...
View ArticlePutting a Face to Your Data
“Big Data” evolved organically as a form of market differentiator throughout industry. How could Company A capture new customers or retain existing ones, when it wasn’t the only game in town? By...
View ArticleZooming In on Your Data
The data behind “big data” is continuously being captured and bombarded by your competition, requiring that big data is coupled with ever-increasing actionable ingenuity in the form of business...
View ArticleGetting the Biggest Bang out of BI: How CFOs Can and Are Using Business...
The goal of any business is universal: to create profitable relationships with present and future customers. The goal of using business intelligence software (BI) is equally universal: to leverage...
View ArticleBusiness Intelligence: Maximizing Customer Analytics ROI
In this highly information-dense culture, providing managers with more data to absorb can seem like TMI (too much information) to them. How can companies inspire managers to creatively and...
View ArticleClass is in Session: Business Analysis Degrees on the Rise
Due to the current economic situation, the concept of higher education is changing. With increasing costs of tuition, decreasing acceptance rates, and poor job prospects afterwards, young adults are...
View ArticleUsing Business Intelligence to Strengthen Security
These days, it’s almost impossible to find a company that does not do business online. Applications and services have been created to make everything from sending sensitive documents to accepting...
View ArticleUsing KPI’s to Identify Trends and Enhance Performance
KPI’s also known as key performance indicators can be highly useful tools for outlining targets, identifying trends, looking at potential issues and opportunities, and planning future activities to...
View ArticleExecutive Dashboards
The accessibility and self-service nature of dashboards has made them hugely popular with decision-makers looking to take more control of their data analysis. Either as an extension or expansion of...
View ArticleMicrosoft to Add Business Intelligence Tools to Office 365
In an attempt to cash in on the growing popularity of business intelligence (BI) software, Microsoft is including a wide array of tools into the latest version of Office 365. The offering, called...
View ArticleUnilever Hopes Business Intelligence Products Will Help Boost Revenues
Unilever, the third largest consumer goods producer on the planet, feels that if you are going to aim, aim high. In 2010, the company proposed a lofty goal for themselves: double revenues in 10 years...
View ArticleThe Do’s and Don’ts of Business Intelligence Platforms
Business Intelligence (BI) platforms are quickly becoming as common as emails and spreadsheets, but that doesn’t mean that we have BI software do to an exact science. Many companies are not getting the...
View ArticlePharmaceutical Company Speed R&D with BI
Developing new drugs is far from an easy task for pharmaceutical companies. Several years and millions of dollars go into the careful planning and testing of new drugs so they can be deemed safe and...
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