Tag: Best practice
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The Big Trends in Business Intelligence Competency Centers
The latest and greatest trends in Business Intelligence Competency Centers (or is it Analytic Centers of Excellence?!)
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Analytics Teams: Own The Business Problem, Not An Infrastructure
To succeed in the future, Analytics teams have to pragmatically support business access to data, even if it’s not stored in corporate systems.
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A Common Analytic Fail
If you’re going to tout the benefits of your analysis, back it up with data!
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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.
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Data Visualization? Bling It On!
A timely post on the surge of interest in data visualization “bling”.
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Concrete Examples of How Health Intelligence Saves Lives
An excellent article in Health Data Management gives some wonderful examples of the power of analytics to improve health outcomes.
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Internal BI Promotion Video from the SAP BI Competency Center
One often-underestimated element required for successful business intelligence projects is strong communication skills. Here’s a great example of a BI competency center explaining and promoting BI to the rest of the organization, shared by SAP’s BICC
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What Does a World-Class BI Program Look Like?
A World-Class BI program is one that changes the information culture of the organization. Here are five steps to help get you there.
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The Inevitable Wolfram|Alpha Problem: Semantics
Wolfram|Alpha has now been launched, and inevitably suffers from the same problems that have plagued every attempt to provide answers to human questions using technology since the dawn of computers: semantics, and specifically meaning and syntax. Solving these problems in organizations will remain a challenge for years to come, but the rewards can be considerable…
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Branding Your BI Solution: Everything Up to And Including Theme Music?
Branding and other forms of internal marketing are absolutely essential for successful BI projects — and it’s an area where the teams don’t often have a lot of expertise. This article touches on some of the key things teams should to do promote BI projects successfully.