Business Analytics 101
You may have noticed many vendors transitioning away from the term business intelligence and instead using business analytics. I recently wrote about industry trends and the longer term, ongoing market...
View ArticleTop 10 Analytics Industry Trends in 2015
Happy New Year! If you thought 2014 was a fantastic year for business intelligence, analytics and data professionals, you’ll be thrilled to know that 2015 looks even better for us. ... Read More The...
View ArticleThoughts on Gartner’s 2015 Magic Quadrant
A few weeks ago the highly anticipated Gartner Magic Quadrant reports for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms and Advanced Analytics were released. Each year I anxiously search the internet...
View ArticlePower BI Preview now Globally Available and Office 16 BI News
Yesterday Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella announced in his Convergence data culture keynote session that the Power BI Preview is now available globally in 140 markets. This includes the new native mobile...
View ArticleEncourage a Data Culture with Mobile BI
APRIL 2015 UPDATE SQL Server Enterprise Edition customers with version 2008 or later and Software Assurance are freely entitled to the Datazen Server mobile BI software at no additional ... Read More...
View ArticleMobile BI for On-Prem Microsoft BI and SSRS
APRIL 2015 UPDATE SQL Server Enterprise Edition customers with version 2008 or later and Software Assurance are freely entitled to the Datazen Server mobile BI software at no additional cost. ... Read...
View ArticleDon’t Miss PASS Business Analytics 2015
If you haven’t signed up yet, don’t miss out on PASS Business Analytics 2015 from April 20 – 22 in sunny Santa Clara, California. This year the program committee, myself ... Read More The post Don’t...
View ArticleBI Industry going through Midlife Crisis
It is another lovely springtime Sunday traveling across country to California. I need to have a chat with analytics conference planners to lure a few more events to Tampa, Orlando ... Read More The...
View ArticleEasy Button Google Analytics Dashboards
Of all the complimentary third-party connectors and template packs released thus far in Microsoft’s Power BI Preview, Google Analytics is by far my personal favorite! Hmmm…looking through a few test...
View ArticleReal-Time Dashboards Today
Every moment counts. Look around you. We live in a fiercely competitive, interconnected, big data world where speed to insight and action have become more critical than ever before. If ... Read More...
View ArticleMay 2015 Microsoft BI World News
As soon as I get monthly Microsoft BI release news collected, I see yet another Tweet come through with more cool updates. Thus if a few more trickle in this ... Read More The post May 2015 Microsoft...
View ArticleMeasuring the Dollar Value of Mined Information
Skimming through 20 years of my archived research tonight with a Diet Mountain Dew in hand, I came across an interesting white paper written in 1997 by Petrie Parsaye called ... Read More The post...
View ArticleSecrets of Engineering Feature Selection
Shhh! I have a little secret to share with you on engineering feature selection. Do you promise not to tell anyone? Ok. I trust you. So here goes… Have you ... Read More The post Secrets of Engineering...
View ArticleData Governance Series by Microsoft Trustworthy Computing
Tonight I came across a gold mine of wonderful data governance resources while researching the industry. Data governance has been a mega-hot topic since self-service business intelligence tools became...
View ArticleSay Hello to Cortana Analytics Suite
This week at Microsoft’s World Partner Conference (WPC), more jaw dropping announcements were made for business intelligence and analytics fanatics. To be completely transparent with you, I still have...
View ArticleThe Evolution of Azure Data Catalog
Old time Microsoft BI fans, do you remember Project Barcelona? Fast-forward a few years, wrinkles, pounds, grey strands in my hair and now we have an even better version of it ... Read More The post...
View ArticleSurprise! Huge PowerBI.com Release Today
Surprise! The highly anticipated, massive list of PowerBI.com General Availability (GA) features were released this afternoon. The related Power BI Desktop enhancements will be available on Friday,...
View ArticleMr. Underwood Analyzes Phillies Stats with Power BI
Note: The following is a rare guest blog by my husband, Mr. Kevin Underwood, who agreed to try Power BI Desktop. To my dismay, he refers to himself as an “end user” ... Read More The post Mr. Underwood...
View ArticleHow To Visually Analyze Predictive Models in Power BI
One of my passions in life is predictive analytics. Countless blogs and presentations have been inspired by my endless appetite to evaluate a myriad of predictive tools. A few weeks ... Read More The...
View ArticleA New World of Data
Finally on a quiet 17 hour flight over the Pacific Ocean to Australia with no Gogo internet access, I completely disconnected from the all the constant digital buzz and rejuvenated ... Read More The...
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