Analytics ROI - How to Measure and Maximize the Value of Analytics?

Jan 24, 2015 by Art McDonald in Banking Analytics

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Analytics ROI is directly related to how an organization perceives their Business Analytics program.  This article illustrates how an investment in an Analytics initiative that directly supports strategic objectives and provides a measurable return on investment will generate a high return on...

Data Warehouse Appliances: Lessons from the Trenches

Jan 24, 2015 by Steve Dine in Enterprise Data Warehousing

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Over the past few years data warehouse (DW) appliances have become a viable option for business intelligence (BI) programs looking to load and process large data volumes as well as reducing query execution times. However, like most architectural decisions, there are many factors to consider when...

Python and SAS: Moving Data From SAS to Tableau

Jan 24, 2015 by Michael Gonzales, Ph.D in Data Science

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Advanced analytics is critical to the modern organization. However, with products like SAS, the data and information generated is often stored in proprietary data sets. This means that visibility to that data and related information is essentially locked up to everyone except the analysts...

Business Intelligence Success: Perception and Reality

Jan 24, 2015 by Steve Dine in Enterprise Data Warehousing

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How many times have you heard a statistic such as “42% of respondents rate their Business Intelligence (BI) program as moderately successful” or “more than 50% of all Business Intelligence projects fail”? When I read these types of statistics I often wonder what’s behind these numbers. I’d love...

Pipeline Analytics - Describing the Business Opportunity

Jan 24, 2015 by Barry Devlin in Analytics for EPM/CPM

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Organizations are driven to “perform well” over long periods of time. High levels of performance produce theresults needed to satisfy its many different stakeholders. Leadership teams are accountable for achieving thoseresults. However, what does it actually mean to “perform well”? What are the...