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Sometimes we are given data in a spreadsheet that contains blanks and in order to process the data we need to repopulate the data appropriately. With lots of data this can be very time consuming and sometimes near impossible.
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Also included is an interesting 3-Part series written by Steve Palmer, President of FactFusion, a consulting and advisory company focused on guiding companies toward realizing the benefits of business intelligence and enterprise information management... among other useful articles, links, Hot Tips and Techniques.
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Synergy BI Completes Management Buy-Out |
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The management of Synergy Business Intelligence has acquired a controlling stake in the company after successfully completing a management buy-out from current owners, Sekujalo TSG.
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Financial Performance Management
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 Financial performance management, it must be said, is a pretty valid concept for almost every company in the current economic climate.
That heightens the relevance of IBM Cognos TM1, which provides real-time consolidation, viewing and editing of enormous volumes of multidimensional data using a patented, 64-bit, in-memory OLAP server.
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Kimball University: The 10 Essential Rules of Dimensional Modeling |
A student attending one of Kimball Group's recent onsite dimensional modeling classes asked me for a list of "Kimball's Commandments" for dimensional modeling. We'll refrain from using religious terminology, but let's just say the following are not-to-be-broken rules together with less stringent rule-of-thumb recommendations have yet to meet a business intelligence (BI) team that has too little on its plate.
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From Cave Paintings to CNN: The Quest for Business Intelligence
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Part 1 in a 3-Part Series featured in this Newsletter
First a reality check! We must accept the widely published results of industry surveys that indicate that business intelligence (BI) remains a top priority for CIOs, and CEOs still list business insight as one of the top five challenges they face. These results are a clear indication that despite all the investments in data warehousing, analytics and business intelligence and, although we have made some progress, we have a long way to go to deliver completely on the promise of business intelligence. My goal here is to uncover a root cause of this shortfall and recommend a new approach for delivering BI solutions.
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Business Intelligence Realization: An Agile Answer
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Part 2 in a 3-Part Series
In my first article in this series, From Cave Paintings to CNN: the Quest for Business Intelligence, we establish that using visual metaphors is a pervasive form of communication we call "consumer intelligence." In a consumer context, information is communicated in graphical and pictorial forms since they "speak" to people in a way dry content cannot. At the same time, graphical forms transcend language and even the knowledge of the consumer. Inspired by rapid advancements in consumer intelligence, we discovered the root cause of why the full potential of business intelligence (BI) has not been realized by enterprises despite huge investments of precious time and money. We examined the way BI solutions are built and found the problem starts in the requirements phase. |
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Business Intelligence Recipe for Success: The Iron Chef Discovers the Secret Ingredients |
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5 Steps to Unfreeze a Business Intelligence Strategy |
 Is your enterprise business intelligence strategy stalled, with new business managers reluctant to get involved or users not adopting the BI tools? Assuming that you have the basics in place -- you established what the business wants to measure, you integrated the right data sources and you cleansed the data -- here's how experts recommend overcoming the hurdles of slow adoption:
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