Category Archives: Dashboards

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  One Bite At A Time

  Enterprise business intelligence projects are often very large because there’s data coming from all different sources and each area has their own metrics. You may find yourself stuck getting data or KPI’s from one side of the organization, which holds up the entire project. You want your BI dashboard to show everything but it takes […]

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  Can You Get A Comprehensive View Of Your Business?

  Does your BI dashboard provide you with a comprehensive view of your business? If you don’t have a comprehensive view how do you know if your business is meeting its goals & objectives? Business data is stored in a variety of different systems, 3rd party or partner sources, databases, etc. When data is spread out […]

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  Why Your Company Needs a Visual Online Dashboard

  You probably hear the saying “What gets measured, gets done.” lots of times or “You can’t measure what you can’t see”. Your company probably already have tons of metrics circulating around that only focus on one area (defects, hours, etc.) but you can’t see the whole picture. How do you currently determine if your applications […]

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  When Is A BI Project Complete?

  You purchased a BI tool and brought in BI consultants to get it up and running. The tool is working great, pulling data automatically from all your systems. The process is working great but does that mean your BI project is complete? The answer is no. A BI project is not complete until: All users […]

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  What CEO’s Want And Need To Know

  Your organization may already have lots of metrics and dashboards but do they really have the information a CEO needs and wants to know? CEO’s want to be able to get a complete picture of progress on initiatives, goals, and projects when ever they want NOT when you can provide the information. So stop publishing […]

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  7 Facts About Data Quality [Infographic]

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• 6 Key Steps In Creating Metrics That Matter

  There are lots of whitepapers, presentations & blogs out on the Internet that tell you to create one metric over another metric.  It’s great to know about the variety of different metrics available but do you really need all of them? This presentation reduces the complexity to 6 key steps in creating actionable metrics that […]

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  Business Intelligence Hottest Trends

  There has been a hot topic on LinkedIn about what the hottest trend is for Business Intelligence (BI). Some of the responses have been around dashboards, mobility, integration. From my point of view the hottest and important items not trends for BI to actually work are so you can make objective decisions are: Ability to […]

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  WAIT! Read This Before You Pick The Wrong BI Solution

  There is so much buzz going on around big data, dashboards, metrics, etc.. Companies are implementing BI solutions in-house or in the cloud. Some companies are selecting BI solutions just because of the brand name. Other companies are selecting BI solutions because they think they are getting something that will answer a specific question today. […]

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  STOP Wasting Money Due To Lack Of Analytics

  I read an article the other day written by Joe Curtis called “Firms ‘wasting money on data centres of lack of analytics’” Mr. Curtis was correct that firms are wasting money due to the lack of analytics but not just on data centers. Firms are wasting money on resources, software, hardware, and much more due […]

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