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...

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...

Performance Analytics Solutions Profiles

Jan 24, 2015 by Art McDonald in Banking Analytics

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 Client relationships are designed to promote the growth of information empowered performace cultures that generate above industry average business outcomes. This article provides examples of how BI provided guidance, solutions and services to help clients transform information into actions that...

Python and SPSS: Extending the Analytic Landscape

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

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In a recent client engagement, our team was asked to establish a method to identify and report on deviations of normal file activity. This blog will examine the use of Python as a middleware application that deconstructs SPSS Statistics output into data components that are loaded into an MS SQL...

Why BI Projects Fail: The Allure of the Silver Bullet

Jan 24, 2015 by Steve Dine in Enterprise Data Warehousing

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The high failure rate of BI projects and programs has been well documented throughout the years. The reasons why they fail has also been well documented, which leads to the obvious question of "why do they continue to fail at such a high rate?"  This article discusses the many combination of...