Category: Best practice
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What Makes a BI Team World Class?
Some years ago, I was asked to do a presentation for a Nordic Telecom company. The company had grown rapidly through acquisitions around Europe and so had lots of different systems and silos of analytics tools throughout the company. In an attempt to rationalize existing solutions and provide more value to the business, the company organized an internal…
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What SAP Users Think About Digital Transformation
Last month, the US and German SAP user communities released a must-read paper on Digital Transformation. Here are some highlights.
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Why The Future of Analytics Is About More Than Self-Service
Analytics now faces new customers and new needs — it’s no longer just about great self-service access to data.
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Modern BI: From Reporting to Predictive
Pret A Manger is a great illustration of how companies are still getting incredible value from “boring reporting”, but also moving to more predictive technologies.
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SAP HANA, Hadoop & Spark at Coca Cola East Japan
At the #HANA2016 conference this week, Coca-Cola East Japan explained how the company uses a modern BI platform with SAP HANA, Hadoop, and SAP Lumira to provide powerful analytics and support new business models.
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Are You A Digitalist? Here’s Your Magazine.
Digitalist is a digital magazine that aims to provide everything an executive needs to be a leader in the digital economy.
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The Big Data Iceberg
Data visualization is just the tip of the iceberg. The hard work is getting data worth reporting on…
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Top Big Data Challenges Revisited
We’ve now been wrestling with Enterprise Big Data for a few years. Here’s a summary of where we are dealing with its challenges.
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What is HTAP?
What is Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP)? It’s the future of business applications.
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5 Top Tips for Agile Analytics Organizations
New self-service analytics approaches provide an opportunity to dramatically improve analytics business agility and IT/business alignment. But this requires new cultures and new ways of working, and both business and IT organizations have to make compromises.